The 248 Positive Commandments or Obligations as arranged in 10 groups or categories.
A. Belief in One God and our duties toward Him (Mitzvahs 1-19)
1. *Believing in One God
2. *The Unity of God
3. *The Love of God
4. *The Fear of God
5. Worshipping God
6. Cleaving to God
7. Taking an oath by God’s name
8. Walking in God’s ways
9. Sanctifying God’s name
10. Reading the Shema (not binding on women)
11. Studying the Torah
12. The Tefillin of the head (not binding on women)
13. The Tefillin of the arm (not binding on women)
14. The Fringes (not binding on women)
15. The Mezuzah
16. The Assembly during the Feast of Tabernacles
17. A King to write a Scroll of Law (Torah)
18. Acquiring a Scroll of Law
19. Grace after meals
B. The Sanctuary, Priesthood and Offerings (Mitzvahs 20-95)
20. Building the Sanctuary
21. Revering the Sanctuary
22. Guarding the Sanctuary
23. Levitical services in the Sanctuary
24. Duties of the Priests (Sanctifying and washing of the hands and feet)
25. The Priests kindling the lamps
26. The Priests blessing Israel
27. The Showbread
28. Burning the Incense
29. The perpetual fire on the Altar
30. Removing the ashes from the Altar
31. Removing the unclean persons from the Camp of the Divine Presence
32. Honoring the Priests
33. The Priestly Garments
34. The Priests bearing the Ark
35. The Oil of Anointment
36. The Priests ministering in courses (Rotation of weeks)
37. Priests defiling themselves for deceased relatives
38. The High Priest marrying only a virgin
39. The daily Burnt-offering
40. The High Priest’s daily Meal-offering
41. The Sabbath Additional Offering
42. The New Moon Additional Offering
43. The Passover Additional Offering
44. The Meal-offering of the new barley
45. The Shevuoth Additional Offering
46. The bringing of two loaves on Shavouth
47. The New Year Additional Offering
48. The tenth day of Tishrei Additional Offering
49. The Service of the Day of Atonement
50. The Feast of Tabernacles Additional Offering
51. The Shemini Atzeret Additional Offering
52. The Three Annual Pilgrimages (not obligatory for women)
53. Appearing before God during the Festivals (also not binding for women)
54. Rejoicing on the Festivals
55. Slaughtering the Passover-offering
56. Eating the Passover-offering
57. Slaughtering the second Passover-offering
58. Eating the second Passover-offering
59. Blowing the trumpets in the Sanctuary
60. Offering cattle of a minimum age
61. Bringing only unblemished offerings
62. Salt being brought with every offering
63. The Burnt-offering
64. The Sin-offering
65. The Guilt-offering
66. The Peace-offering
67. The Meal-offering
68. The Offering of a Court that has erred
69. The Fixed Sin-offering
70. The Suspensive Guilt-offering
71. The Unconditional Guilt-offering
72. The Offering of Higher or Lower Value
73. Making confession
74. Offering brought by a zav
75. Offering brought by a zavah
76. The offering after childbirth
77. The Offering brought by a leper
78. The Tithe of cattle
79. Sanctifying the first-born (not binding for Levites)
80. Redeeming the first-born son (not binding for women)
81. Redeeming the firstling of an ass with a lamb (not binding on Levites)
82. Breaking the neck of the firstling of an ass if not redeemed
83. Bringing due offerings on the first festival
84. All offerings to be brought to the Sanctuary
85. All offerings due from outside the Land of Israel to be brought to the Sanctuary
86. Redeeming blemished offerings
87. Holiness of a substituted offering
88. The Priests eating the residue of the Meal-offerings
89. The Priests eating the meat of Consecrated Offerings
90. Consecrated Offerings that have become unclean to be burnt
91. The remnant of Consecrated Offerings to be burnt
92. The Nazirite to let his hair grow
93. Nazirite obligations on completion of the vow
94. All oral commitments to be fulfilled
95. Revocation of vows
C. The Sources of Uncleanness and the modes of Purification (Mitzvahs 96-113)
96. Defilement through carcasses of animals
97. Defilement through carcasses of certain creeping creatures
98. Defilement of food and drink
99. The menstruant
100. After childbirth
101. Tzaraas
102. Garments contaminated by tzaraas
103. Houses contaminated by tzaraas
104. The zav
105. Semen
106. The zavah
107. Uncleanness of a corpse
108. Law of the water of sprinkling
109. Immersing in a ritual bath
110. Cleansing from tzaraas
111. A person with tzaraas to shave their head
112. The person with tzaraas to be made distinguishable
113. The ashes of the Red Heifer
D. Gifts to the Temple, the poor, The Priests and Levites; the Sabbatical Year and the Jubilee; the preparation of food (Mitzvahs 114-152)
114. Valuation of a person
115. Valuation of beasts
116. Valuation of houses
117. Restitution of fields
118. Restitution for sacrilege
119. The fruits of fourth-year plantings
120. Peah for the poor
121. Gleanings for the poor
122. The forgotten sheaf for the poor
123. Defective grape-clusters for the poor
124. Grape-gleanings for the poor
125. First fruits to be brought to the Sanctuary
126. The great heave-offering
127. The first tithe
128. The second tithe
129. The Levites’ tithe for the Priests
130. The poor man’s tithe
131. The avowal of the Tithe
132. Recital on bringing the first fruits
133. The dough-offering (challah)
134. Renouncing as ownerless produce of the Sabbatical year
135. Resting the land during the Sabbatical year
136. Sanctifying the Jubilee year
137. Blowing the Shofar on the tenth day of Tishrei in the Sabbatical year
138. Reversion of land in the Jubilee year
139. Redemption of property in a walled city
140. Counting the years to the Jubilee
141. Canceling claims in the Sabbatical year
142. Exacting debts from idolaters
143. The Priest’s due in the slaughter of every clean animal (not binding on Levites)
144. The first of the fleece to be given to the Priest
145. Devoted things
146. Shechitah (Ritual slaughtering)
147. Covering the blood of slain birds and animals
148. Releasing a dam when taking its nest
149. Searching for prescribed tokens in cattle and animals
150. Searching for the prescribed tokens in birds
151. Searching for the prescribed tokens in grasshoppers
152. Searching for the prescribed tokens in fishes
E. The Holy Days and the observances connected with them (Mitzvahs 153-171)
153. Determining the New Moon
154. Resting on the Sabbath
155. Proclaiming the sanctity of the Sabbath
156. Removal of Leaven (Passover)
157. Recounting the departure from Egypt
158. Unleavened bread to be eaten on the eve of the fifteenth day of Nissan
159. Resting on the first day of Passover
160. Resting on the seventh day of Passover
161. Counting the Omer (not binding on women)
162. Resting on Shavouth
163. Resting on Rosh Hashanah
164. Fasting on Yom Kippur
165. Resting on Yom Kippur
166. Resting on the first day of Sukkoth
167. Resting on Shemini Atzeret
168. Dwelling in a booth during Sukkoth (not binding on women)
169. Taking a lulav on Sukkoth (not binding on women)
170. Hearing the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah (not binding on women)
171. Giving a half shekel annually
F. The proper functioning of the Jewish State (Mitzvahs 172-193)
172. Heeding the Prophets
173. Appointing a King
174. Obeying the Great Court (Sanhedrin)
175. Abiding by a majority decision
176. Appointing Judges and Officers of the Court (Sanhedrin and Lower Courts)
177. Treating litigants equally before the law
178. Testifying in Court
179. Inquiring into the testimony of witnesses
180. Condemning witnesses who testify falsely
181. Eglah Arufah (axing the neck of a heifer if an unknown murdered man is found)
182. Establishing Cities of Refuge
183. Assigning cities to the Levites
184. Removing sources of danger from our habitations
185. Destroying all idol worship
186. The Law of the Apostate City
187. The Law of the Seven Nations (of Canaan)
188. The extinction of Amalek
189. Remembering the wicked deeds of Amalek
190. The Law of non-obligatory war
191. Appointing a Priest for war
192. Preparing a place beyond the camp
193. Including a paddle or spike among war implements
G. Our duties towards our fellow (Mitzvahs 194-209)
194. A robber to restore the stolen article
195. *Charity (Including the ransom of captives)
196. Lavishing gifts on a Hebrew bondman on his freedom
197. Lending money to the poor
198. Interest
199. Restoring a pledge to a needy owner
200. Paying wages on time
201. An employee to be allowed to eat of the produce among which he is working
202. Unloading a tired animal
203. Assisting the owner in lifting up his burden
204. Returning lost property to its owner
205. Rebuking the sinner
206. *Loving our neighbor (The fundamental principle of the Torah)
207. *Loving the stranger
208. The law of weights and measures
209. Honoring scholars and the aged
H. The duties attaching to family life (Mitzvahs 210-223)
210. *Honoring parents
211. *Respecting parents
212. “Be fruitful and multiply”
213. The law of marriage
214. The bridegroom devoting himself to his wife for one year
215. The law of circumcision
216. The law of Levirate marriage
217. Chalitzah
218. A violator to marry the maiden whom he has violated (With consent)
219. The law of the defamer of a bride
220. The law of the seducer
221. The law of the captive woman
222. The law of divorce
223. The law of the suspected adulteress
I. The enforcement of the criminal law (Mitzvahs 224-231)
224. Whipping transgressors of certain Commandments
225. The law of manslaughter
226. Transgressors of certain Commandments to be beheaded
227. Transgressors of certain Commandments to be strangled
228. Transgressors of certain Commandments to be put to death by burning
229. Transgressors of certain Commandments to be stoned
230. The bodies of certain transgressors to be hanged after execution
231. The law of burial
J. The laws relating to property, real and personal (Mitzvahs 232-248)
232. The law of a Hebrew bondman
233. A Hebrew bondmaid to be married by her master or his son
234. Redemption of a Hebrew bondmaid
235. The law of the Canaanite bondman
236. Penalty for inflicting injury
237. The law of injuries caused by an ox
238. The law of injuries caused by a pit
239. The law of theft
240. The law of damage caused by a beast
241. The law of damage by fire
242. The law of an unpaid bailee
243. The law of a paid bailee
244. The law of a borrower
245. The law of buying and selling
246. The law of litigants
247. Saving the life of the pursued
248. The law of inheritance
The 613 Mitzvot
The 365 Negative Commandments or Prohibitions as arranged in 10 groups or categories
A. Idolatry and related subjects (Mitzvahs 1- 59)
1. *Believing in, or ascribing any deity to any but God (The very essence of Judaism)
2. *Making images for the purpose of worship
3. Making an idol for others to worship
4. Making figures of human beings (This does not apply to painting, etc.)
5. Bowing down to an idol
6. Worshipping idols
7. Handing over some of our offspring to the Molech
8. Practicing the sorcery of the ob
9. Practicing the sorcery of the yidde’oni
10. Studying idolatrous practices
11. Erecting a pillar which people will assemble to honor
12. Making figured stones upon which to prostrate ourselves
13. Planting trees within the Sanctuary
14. Swearing by an idol
15. Summoning people to idolatry
16. Seeking to persuade an Israelite to worship idols
17. Loving the person who seeks to mislead him into idolatry
18. Relaxing one’s aversion to the misleader
19. Saving the life of the misleader
20. Pleading for the misleader
21. Suppressing evidence which is unfavorable to the misleader
22. Benefiting from ornaments which have adorned an idol
23. Rebuilding an apostate city
24. Deriving benefit from the property of an apostate city
25. Increasing our wealth from anything connected with idolatry
26. Prophesying in the name of an idol
27. Prophesying falsely
28. Listening to the prophesy of one who prophesies in the name of an idol
29. Having pity on a false prophet
30. Adopting the habits and customs of unbelievers
31. Practicing divination
32. Regulating our conduct by the stars
33. Practicing the art of the soothsayer
34. Practicing sorcery
35. Practicing the art of the charmer
36. Consulting a necromancer who uses the ob
37. Consulting a sorcerer who uses the yidde’oni
38. Seeking information from the dead
39. Women wearing men’s clothes or adornments
40. Men wearing women’s clothes or adornments
41. Imprinting any marks upon our bodies
42. Wearing a garment of wool and linen
43. Shaving the temples of our heads (not binding on women)
44. Shaving the beard (not binding on women)
45. Making cuttings in our flesh
46. Settling in the land of Egypt
47. Accepting opinions contrary to those in the Torah
48. Making a covenant with the Seven Nations of Canaan
49. Failing to observe the law concerning the Seven Nations
50. *Showing mercy to idolaters (not nations whose religion is derived from the Torah)
51. Suffering idolaters to dwell in our land
52. Intermarrying with the heretics
53. Intermarrying with a male Ammonite or Moabite (no longer in existence)
54. Excluding descendants of Esau
55. Excluding the descendants of Egyptians
56. Offering peace to Ammon or Moab (but not from accepting peace)
57. Destroying fruit trees during a siege
58. Fearing the heretics in time of war
59. Forgetting what Amalek did to us
B. Our duties to God, the Sanctuary, and the services therein (Mitzvahs 60-88)
60. Blaspheming the Great Name
61. Violating a shebuat bittui (a sworn oath to do or not do something)
62. Swearing a shebuat shav (swearing that which is contrary to the facts known)
63. Profaning the Name of God
64. Testing His promises and warnings
65. Breaking down houses of worship
66. Leaving the body of a criminal hanging overnight after execution
67. Interrupting the watch over the Sanctuary
68. The High Priest entering the Sanctuary at any but the prescribed time
69. A Priest with blemish entering any part of the Sanctuary
70. A Priest with a blemish ministering in the Sanctuary
71. A Priest with a temporary blemish ministering in the Sanctuary
72. The Levites and Priests performing each other’s allotted services
73. Entering the Sanctuary or giving a decision on any law of the Torah while drunk
74. A zar ministering in the Sanctuary (non-Kohen)
75. An unclean Priest ministering in the Sanctuary
76. A Priest who is a tevul yom ministering in the Sanctuary (not waiting until sunset)
77. Any unclean person entering any part of the Sanctuary
78. Any unclean person entering the camp of the Levites
79. Building an altar of stones which have been touched by iron
80. Ascending the Altar by steps
81. Extinguishing the Altar fire
82. Bringing any offering except incense on the Golden Altar
83. Making oil like the Oil of Anointment
84. Anointing anyone except the High Priests and Kings with the Oil of Anointment
85. Making incense like that used in the Sanctuary
86. Removing the staves from their rings in the Ark
87. Removing the Breastplate from the Ephod
88. Tearing the edge of the High Priest’s robe
C. Offerings, Priestly gifts, Priests, Levites, and related subjects (Mitzvahs 89-171)
89. Offering any sacrifice outside the Sanctuary Court
90. Slaughtering any of the holy offerings outside the Sanctuary Court
91. Dedicating blemished beasts to be offered upon the Altar
92. Slaughtering blemished beasts for offerings
93. Dashing the blood of blemished beasts upon the Altar
94. Burning any portion of a blemished beast upon the Altar
95. Offering a beast with a temporary blemish
96. Offering blemished offerings of a gentile
97. Causing an offering to become blemished
98. Offering leaven or honey upon the Altar
99. Offering an offering without salt
100. Offering on the Altar the hire of a harlot or the price of a dog
101. Slaughtering the mother and her young on the same day
102. Putting olive oil on the meal-offering of a sinner
103. Bringing frankincense with the meal-offering of a sinner
104. Mingling olive oil with the meal-offering of a suspected adulteress
105. Putting frankincense on the meal-offering of a suspected adulteress
106. Changing a beast that has been consecrated as an offering
107. Changing one holy offering for another
108. Redeeming the firstling of a clean beast
109. Selling the tithe of cattle
110. Selling devoted property
111. Redeeming devoted land without any specific statement of purpose
112. Severing the head of the bird of a sin offering during melikah
113. Doing any work with a dedicated beast
114. Shearing a dedicated beast
115. Slaughtering the Passover offering while leavened bread remains
116. Leaving the fats of the Passover offering overnight
117. Allowing any of the meat of the Passover offering to remain until morning
118. Allowing the meat of the Festival of the 14th of Nissan to remain until the third day
119. Allowing the meat of the Second Passover offering to remain until morning
120. Allowing any of the meat of the Thank-offering to remain until morning
121. Breaking any of the bones of the Passover offering
122. Breaking any of the bones of the Second Passover offering
123. Removing the Passover offering from where it is eaten
124. Baking the residue of a meal-offering with leaven
125. Eating the Passover offering boiled or raw
126. Allowing a ger toshav to eat the Passover offering
127. An uncircumcised person eating the Passover offering
128. Allowing an apostate Israelite to eat the Passover offering
129. An unclean person eating hallowed food
130. Eating meat of consecrated offerings which have become unclean
131. Eating nothar (offerings to be eaten before a certain time)
132. *Eating piggul (an offering rendered unfit through improper intentions or actions)
133. A zar eating terumah (a non-Kohen eating holy things)
134. A Priest’s tenant or hired servant eating terumah
135. An uncircumcised Priest eating terumah
136. An unclean Priest eating terumah
137. A chalalah eating holy food (a Priest’s daughter married to a non-Kohen, etc.)
138. Eating the meal-offering of a Priest
139. Eating meat of Sin-offerings whose blood has been brought within the Sanctuary
140. Eating invalidated consecrated offerings
141. Eating the unredeemed second tithe of corn outside Jerusalem
142. Consuming the unredeemed second tithe of wine outside Jerusalem
143. Consuming the unredeemed second tithe oil outside Jerusalem
144. Eating an unblemished firstling outside Jerusalem
145. Eating the Sin-offering and the Guilt-offering outside the Sanctuary court
146. Eating the meat of a burnt-offering
147. Eating lesser holy offerings before dashing their blood on the Altar
148. A Priest eating the first-fruits outside Jerusalem
149. A zar eating the most holy offerings
150. Eating unredeemed unclean second tithe, even in Jerusalem
151. Eating the second tithe during mourning
152. Spending the redemption money of the second tithe except on food and drink
153. Eating tevel (produce from which the offering and tithes were not taken)
154. Altering the prescribed order of harvest tithing
155. Delaying payment of vows
156. Appearing on a festival without an offering
157. *Infringing any oral obligation even if undertaken without an oath
158. A Priest marrying a zonah (harlot or profaned woman)
159. A Priest marrying a chalalah (a woman of impaired priestly status)
160. A Priest marrying a divorced woman
161. A High Priest marrying a widow
162. A High Priest having intercourse with a widow
163. A Priest with disheveled hair entering the Sanctuary
164. Priests wearing rent garments entering the Sanctuary
165. Ministering Priests leaving the Sanctuary
166. A common Priest defiling himself for a dead person except those prescribed
167. A High Priest being under one roof with a dead body
168. A High Priest defiling himself for any dead person
169. Levites acquiring a portion in the Land of Israel
170. Levites sharing in the spoil on the conquest of the Land of Israel
171. Tearing out our hair for the dead
D. Prohibitions affecting food (Mitzvahs 172-209)
172. Eating any unclean animal
173. Eating any unclean fish
174. Eating any unclean fowl
175. Eating any swarming winged insect
176. Eating anything which swarms upon the earth
177. Eating any creeping thing that breeds in decayed matter
178. Eating living creatures that breed in seeds or fruit
179. Eating any swarming thing
180. Eating nevelah (the flesh of an animal that has died of itself)
181. Eating terefah (the flesh of a diseased or injured animal, etc.)
182. Eating a limb of a living creature
183. Eating gid ha-nasheh (the sinew of the thigh vein)
184. Eating blood
185. Eating the fat of a clean animal
186. Cooking meat in milk
187. Eating meat cooked in milk
188. Eating the flesh of a stoned ox
189. Eating bread made from the grain of the new crop
190. Eating roasted grain of the new crop
191. Eating fresh ears of grain
192. Eating orlah (the fruit of young trees during the first three years)
193. Eating kilai ha-kerem (a vineyard planted together with other grains or vegetables)
194. Drinking yain nesech (wine used in connection with idol worship)
195. Eating and drinking to excess
196. Eating on Yom Kippur
197. Eating chametz during Pesach
198. Eating anything containing chametz during Pesach
199. Eating chametz after the middle of the fourteenth of Nissan
200. Chametz being seen in our habitations during Pesach
201. Possessing chametz during Pesach
202. A Nazirite drinking wine
203. A Nazirite eating fresh grapes
204. A Nazirite eating dried grapes
205. A Nazirite eating the kernels of grapes
206. A Nazirite eating the husks of grapes
207. A Nazirite rending himself unclean for the dead
208. A Nazirite rending himself unclean by entering a house containing a corpse
209. A Nazirite shaving
E. Cultivation of the land (Mitzvahs 210-228)
210. Reaping all the harvest
211. Gathering ears of corn that fell during the harvest
212. Gathering the whole produce of the vineyard at vintage time
213. Gathering single fallen grapes during the harvest
214. Returning for a forgotten sheaf
215. Sowing kilayim (sowing different kinds of seed in the Land of Israel, etc.)
216. Sowing grain or vegetables in a vineyard
217. Mating animals of different species
218. Working with two different kinds of animals together
219. Preventing a beast from eating of the produce amidst which it is working
220. Cultivating the soil in the seventh year
221. Pruning trees in the seventh year
222. Reaping a self-grown plant in the seventh year as in an ordinary year
223. Gathering a self-grown fruit in the seventh year as in an ordinary year
224. Cultivating the soil in the Jubilee year
225. Reaping the aftergrowths of the Jubilee year as in an ordinary year
226. Gathering fruit in the Jubilee year as in an ordinary year
227. Selling our holdings in Israel in perpetuity
228. Selling the open lands of the Levite
F. Our duties towards ourselves, the poor and towards employees (Mitzvahs 229-270)
229. Forsaking the Levites
230. Demanding payment for debts after the Sabbatical year
231. Withholding a loan to be cancelled by the Sabbatical year
232. Failing to give charity to our needy brethren
233. Sending away a Hebrew bondman empty-handed
234. Demanding payment from a debtor known to be unable to pay
235. Lending at interest (from one Jew to another)
236. Borrowing at interest
237. Participating in a loan at interest
238. Oppressing an employee by delaying payment of his wages
239. Taking a pledge from a debtor by force
240. Keeping a needed pledge from its owner
241. Taking a pledge from a widow
242. Taking in pledge food utensils
243. Abducting an Israelite
244. *Stealing money
245. *Committing robbery
246. Fraudulently altering land boundaries
247. Usurping our debts
248. Repudiating our debts
249. Swearing falsely in repudiating a debt
250. Wronging one another in business
251. Wronging one another by speech
252. Wronging a proselyte by speech
253. Wronging a proselyte in business
254. Handing over a fugitive bondman
255. Wronging a fugitive bondman
256. Dealing harshly with fatherless children and widows
257. Employing a Hebrew bondman in degrading tasks
258. Selling a Hebrew bondman by public auction
259. Employing a Hebrew bondman on unnecessary work
260. Allowing the maltreatment of a Hebrew bondman
261. Selling a Hebrew bondmaid
262. Afflicting one’s espoused Hebrew bondmaid
263. Selling a captive woman
264. Enslaving a captive woman
265. Planning to acquire another’s property
266. Coveting another’s belongings
267. A hired laborer eating growing crops
268. A hired laborer consuming excessively
269. Ignoring lost property
270. Leaving a trapped person
G. The administration of Justice, the Courts, and similar matters (Mitzvahs 271-319)
271. Cheating in measurements and weights
272. Keeping false weights and measures
273. A Judge committing unrighteousness
274. A Judge accepting gifts from litigants
275. A Judge favoring a litigant
276. A Judge being deterred by fear from giving a just judgement
277. A Judge deciding in favor of a poor man through pity
278. A Judge perverting judgement against a person of evil repute
279. A Judge pitying one who has slain a man
280. A Judge perverting the justice due to proselytes or orphans
281. A Judge listening to one of the litigants in the absence of another
282. A Court convicting in a capital case by a majority of one
283. A Judge relying on the opinion of a fellow judge (without investigating it himself)
284. Appointing an unlearned judge
285. Bearing false witness
286. A Judge receiving a wicked man’s testimony
287. A Judge receiving testimony from a litigant’s relative
288. Convicting on the testimony of a single witness
289. *Killing an innocent human being (including embarrassing them publicly)
290. Capital punishment based on circumstantial evidence
291. A witness acting as an advocate
292. Killing a murderer without a trial
293. Sparing the life of a pursuer
294. Punishing a person for a sin committed under duress
295. Accepting a ransom from one who has committed willful murder
296. Accepting a ransom from one who has committed murder unwittingly
297. Neglecting to save an Israelite in danger of his life
298. Leaving obstacles on public and private domain
299. Giving misleading advice
300. Inflicting excessive corporal punishment
301. *Bearing tales (gossip)
302. *Hating one another
303. *Putting one to shame (slander)
304. *Taking vengeance on one another
305. *Bearing a grudge
306. Taking the entire bird’s nest
307. Shaving uncleanness from the skull
308. Cutting or cauterizing signs of leprosy
309. Plowing a valley in which the rite of eglah arufah has been performed
310. Permitting a sorcerer to live
311. Taking a bridegroom away from his home
312. Differing from traditional authorities
313. Adding to the Written or Oral Law
314. Detracting from the Written or Oral Law
315. Cursing a judge
316. Cursing a ruler
317. Cursing an Israelite
318. *Cursing parents
319. * Smiting parents
H. The Sabbath and Festivals (Mitzvahs 320-329)
320. Working on the Sabbath (39 main categories of prohibited labor)
321. Journeying on the Sabbath
322. Punishing on the Sabbath
323. Working on the first day of Pesach
324. Working on the seventh day of Pesach
325. Working on Shavouth
326. Working on Rosh Hashanah
327. Working on the first day of Sukkoth
328. Working on Shemini Atzeret
329. Working on Yom Kippur
I. Forbidden marriage and related subjects (Mitzvahs 330-361)
330. Having intercourse with one’s mother
331. Having intercourse with one’s father’s wife
332. Having intercourse with one’s sister
333. Having intercourse with the daughter of one’s father’s wife if she be his sister
334. Having intercourse with one’s son’s daughter
335. Having intercourse with one’s daughter’s daughter
336. Having intercourse with one’s daughter
337. Having intercourse with a woman and her daughter
338. Having intercourse with a woman and her son’s daughter
339. Having intercourse with a woman and her daughter’s daughter
340. Having intercourse with one’s father’s sister
341. Having intercourse with one’s mother’s sister
342. Having intercourse with the wife of one’s father’s brother
343. Having intercourse with one’s son’s wife
344. Having intercourse with a brother’s wife
345. Having intercourse with a sister of his wife during the latter’s lifetime
346. Having intercourse with a menstruant
347. Having intercourse with another man’s wife
348. Men lying with beasts
349. Women lying with beasts
350. A man lying carnally with a male
351. A man lying carnally with his father
352. A man lying carnally with his father’s brother
353. Intimacy with a kinswoman (in a way which might lead to forbidden intercourse)
354. A mamzer having intercourse with a Jewess (a child of a forbidden relationship)
355. Having intercourse without marriage
356. Re-marrying one’s divorced wife after she has re-married
357. Having intercourse with a woman subject to Levirate marriage
358. Divorcing a woman he has raped and been compelled to marry
359. Divorcing a woman after having falsely brought an evil name upon her
360. A man incapable of procreation marrying a Jewess
361. Castration
J. The head of the Jewish State and its officers (Mitzvahs 362-365)
362. Appointing a king not born an Israelite
363. A king owning many horses
364. A king taking many wives
365. A king amassing great personal wealth
The 613 Mitzvot according to the “Sefer Ha-Mitzvot” (Book of Mitzvahs) written by Moses ben Maimon also known as Maimonides or “Rambam.” His first principle regarding the 613 is that we are not to include in this enumeration mitzvot having only rabbinic authority. The Talmud (Oral Law) explains that “613 Mitzvot were declared unto Moses at Sinai.” Therefore it is impossible to add or subtract from these. Only Mitzvot that are binding for all time are included in this list. Please keep in mind that there are other opinions regarding this list of mitzvot.
If necessary consult a Rabbi or qualified scholar for a complete explanation of the mitzvot, and the proper method of performance or refrain. Suggested reading includes the “Sefer Ha-Chinuch” or “Book of Education” by Aaron Ha-Levi of Barcelona, Spain, and the “Mishnah Torah” or “Review of the Torah” also by Maimonides.
The Seven Noahide Laws
1. Idolatry
2. “Blessing” the Divine Name (Blasphemy)
3. Murder
4. Sexual Transgressions
5. Theft (and Civil Law)
6. Eating from a live animal (includes cruelty to animals)
7. Courts and Legal System (to enforce the first six)
Incumbent on all human beings, these Laws were first given to Adam and Eve for all future generations. The sixth Law was given to Noah after the Flood, when humans were then allowed to eat meat.
Compiled by Jay Silverman 1998