The 613 Commandments

"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery." (Exodus 20:2)

In declaring Who He is, G-d expects us to know there is a G-d and it is Him.

"Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!" (Deuteronomy 6:4)

The word translated into English as LORD is the special name of G-d which is sometimes transliterated into English as YHVH or YHWH. He is our G-d and He is one G-d.

"You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might." (Deuteronomy 6:5)

The literal commandment is that we should love G-d with all of our heart, soul, and might.

"You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah." (Deuteronomy 6:16)

The literal commandment is not to put the LORD your G-d to the test. This commandment provides a specific example of what NOT to do: test G-d as the Israelites tested Him at Massah.

"You shall have no other gods before Me." (Exodus 20:3)

Does this mean that we can have other gods after Him? By no means! We are to recognize no entity as a god aside from Him.

"You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him and cling to Him, and you shall swear by His name." (Deuteronomy 10:20)

The word "fear" in this verse is best understood as "reverent awe".

"When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you, and when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them." (Deuteronomy 7:1-2) The literal commandment is that we should show no favor to idolaters.

"You shall not profane My holy name, but I will be sanctified among the sons of Israel; I am the LORD who sanctifies you, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, to be your God; I am the LORD." (Leviticus 22:32-33)

This is a positive commandment to sanctify G-d's name... to set it apart for sacred use; to consecrate it.

"You shall not profane My holy name, but I will be sanctified among the sons of Israel; I am the LORD who sanctifies you, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, to be your God; I am the LORD." (Leviticus 22:32-33)

This negative commandment literally tells us not to "profane" G-d's holy name. Profane means "marked by contempt or irreverence for what is sacred".

"You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and obliterate their name from that place. You shall not act like this toward the LORD your God." (Deuteronomy 12:2-4)

This negative commandment literally says that we should not destroy the places where we serve G-d, tear down G-d's altar, or obliterate G-d's name. These were the things Israel was commanded to do in regards to gods of the nations they dispossessed when they entered the promised land.

"The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him." (Deuteronomy 18:15)

Moses speaks to the people of Israel and commands them to listen to [Hebrew: shema- hear and obey] a future prophet whom G-d will raise up for them.

"The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways." (Deuteronomy 28:9)

The literal commandment is to keep the commandments of G-d and walk in His ways [literally "paths"].

"You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard." (Leviticus 19:27) The LITV translation says, "You shall not round the edge of your head, nor mar the edge of your beard." (Leviticus 19:27 LITV)

The literal commandment is that we should not round off the side-growth of our heads.

"You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him and cling to Him, and you shall swear by His name." (Deuteronomy 10:20)

The literal commandment is to serve and cling to G-d.

"You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD." (Leviticus 19:18)

The literal commandment is for the members of the covenant to love their neighbor.

"So show your love for the alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt." (Deuteronomy 10:19)

The literal commandment is to show love for the "alien" (i.e. foreigner [Hebrew: ger- sojourner, alien]).

"You shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may surely reprove your neighbor, but shall not incur sin because of him." (Leviticus 19:17)

The literal commandment to the Israelites was that they should not hate other Israelites.

"These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates." (Deuteronomy 6:6-9)

The literal commandment is that we should write G-d's words on the doorposts of our houses.

"You shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may surely reprove your neighbor, but shall not incur sin because of him." (Leviticus 19:17)

The literal commandment is that we should reprove [admonish, rebuke] our neighbor when they are sinning.

"This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you." (Exodus 12:2) The literal commandment is for the month in which Passover falls shall be the first month of the year.

"You shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may surely reprove your neighbor, but shall not incur sin because of him." (Leviticus 19:17)

The literal commandment is that we should not incur sin when we reprove a sinning neighbor.

"If you happen to come upon a bird's nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;" (Deuteronomy 22:6)

"You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." (Exodus 22:21)

The literal commandment is that we should not oppress strangers.

"You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people, and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor; I am the LORD." (Leviticus 19:16)

The literal commandment is that we should not be a slanderer. The Hebrew word which is translated as "slanderer" [rakil] comes from a word that means "to travel" and connotes "traveling about spreading gossip or slander".

"You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD." (Leviticus 19:18)

The literal commandment is that we should not take vengeance.

"you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days." (Deuteronomy 22:7)

"You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD." (Leviticus 19:18)

The literal commandment is that we should not bear a grudge.

"You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up." (Deuteronomy 6:7)

The literal commandment is that we should teach G-d's commandments diligently to our children. However, in order to be able to teach the commandments we have to learn them first.

"You shall rise up before the grayheaded and honor the aged, and you shall revere your God; I am the LORD." (Leviticus 19:32)

The literal commandment is to rise up (stand) before the grayheaded and honor the aged.

"Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods; I am the LORD your God." (Leviticus 19:4)

The literal commandment is not to "turn to" (seek after or rely upon) idols.

"Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them that they shall make for themselves tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put on the tassel of each corner a cord of blue. It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot, so that you may remember to do all My commandments and be holy to your God." (Numbers 15:38-40)

The literal commandment is not to follow after our own hearts and our own eyes (which lead us into idolatry).

"You shall not curse God, nor curse a ruler of your people." (Exodus 22:28) The Hebrew word translated in this verse as "curse" means "to be slight, swift, or trifling". This verse might be more accurately and literally translated as "you shall not act towards G-d in a casual or disrespectful way."

"You shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to profane the name of your God; I am the LORD." (Leviticus 19:12)

"You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments." (Exodus 20:4-6) The literal commandment is that we should not serve idols.

"You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments." (Exodus 20:4-6)

The literal commandment is that we should not worship idols.

"You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments." (Exodus 20:4-6) The literal commandment is that we should not make an idol for ourselves.

"Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods; I am the LORD your God." (Leviticus 19:4) The literal commandment is that we should not turn to idols or make molten gods for ourselves.

"You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain." (Exodus 20:7)

"You shall not make other gods besides Me; gods of silver or gods of gold, you shall not make for yourselves." (Exodus 20:23)

The literal commandment is that we should not make "other gods" (i.e. idols).

"If you hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you to live in, anyone saying that some worthless men have gone out from among you and have seduced the inhabitants of their city, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods' (whom you have not known), then you shall investigate and search out and inquire thoroughly. If it is true and the matter established that this abomination has been done among you, you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its cattle with the edge of the sword." (Deuteronomy 13:12-15) The literal commandment is that we should not turn a city to idolatry.

"Then you shall gather all its booty into the middle of its open square and burn the city and all its booty with fire as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God; and it shall be a ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt.(Deuteronomy 13:16) The literal commandment is that we should burn a city that has turned to idol worship and all its "booty" (things of value).

"Then you shall gather all its booty into the middle of its open square and burn the city and all its booty with fire as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God; and it shall be a ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt." (Deuteronomy 13:16) The literal commandment is that we should never rebuild a city that was burned because it turned to idol worship.

"Then you shall gather all its booty into the middle of its open square and burn the city and all its booty with fire as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God; and it shall be a ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt. Nothing from that which is put under the ban shall cling to your hand, in order that the LORD may turn from His burning anger and show mercy to you, and have compassion on you and make you increase, just as He has sworn to your fathers, if you will listen to the voice of the LORD your God, keeping all His commandments which I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the LORD your God." (Deuteronomy 13:16-18) The literal commandment is that nothing that is destined to be destroyed with the city that has turned to idolatry should "cling to your hand": we should not hold onto anything (even things of great value) that should be destroyed under these circumstances.

"If you hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you to live in, anyone saying that some worthless men have gone out from among you and have seduced the inhabitants of their city, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods' (whom you have not known), then you shall investigate and search out and inquire thoroughly. If it is true and the matter established that this abomination has been done among you, you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its cattle with the edge of the sword." (Deuteronomy 13:12-15) The literal commandment is that we should not seduce or entice others to go and serve other gods.

"If your brother, your mother's son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods' (whom neither you nor your fathers have known, of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end), you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him." (Deuteronomy 13:6-8) The literal commandment is that we should not yield to anyone attempting to entice us into idolatry.

"If your brother, your mother's son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods' (whom neither you nor your fathers have known, of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end), you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him." (Deuteronomy 13:6-8) The literal commandment is that we should not listen a person who attempts to entice us into idolatry.

"If your brother, your mother's son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods' (whom neither you nor your fathers have known, of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end), you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him." (Deuteronomy 13:6-8) The literal commandment is that we should not pity a person who attempts to entice us into idolatry.

"If your brother, your mother's son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods' (whom neither you nor your fathers have known, of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end), you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him." (Deuteronomy 13:6-8) The literal commandment is that we should not spare a person who attempts to entice us into idolatry. We should not spare them from what? From the death penalty proscribed for their offense (see Deuteronomy 13:9).

"If your brother, your mother's son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods' (whom neither you nor your fathers have known, of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end), you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him." (Deuteronomy 13:6-8) The literal commandment is that we should not conceal a person who attempts to entice us into idolatry.

"'But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.'" (Deuteronomy 18:20) The literal commandment is that the prophet who speaks in the name of other gods (idols) should die.

"If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, 'Let us go after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them,' you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you to find out if you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul." (Deuteronomy 13:1-3) The literal commandment is that we should not listen to the words of a prophet or dreamer of dreams who tells us to go after other gods and serve them.

"You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another." (Leviticus 19:11)

"'But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.'" (Deuteronomy 18:20) The literal commandment is that the prophet who presumptuously says something in G-d's name which He did not command him to speak should die.

"You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another." (Leviticus 19:11)

"When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him." (Deuteronomy 18:22) The literal commandment is that we should not be afraid of a false prophet.

"You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him and cling to Him, and you shall swear by His name." (Deuteronomy 10:20)

"Now concerning everything which I have said to you, be on your guard; and do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard from your mouth." (Exodus 23:13) The literal commandment is that we should not mention the name of other gods.

"You shall be careful to perform what goes out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God, what you have promised." (Deuteronomy 23:23)

"Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God." (Leviticus 19:31) The literal commandment is that we should not seek out spirits (through mediums or spiritists).

"If a man makes a vow to the LORD, or takes an oath to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not violate his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth." (Numbers 30:2)

"Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God." (Leviticus 19:31) The literal commandment is that we should not turn to (consult) mediums or spiritists.

"You shall not give any of your offspring to offer them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am the LORD." (Leviticus 18:21)

The literal commandment is that we should not give any of our offspring (children) to offer them to Molech.

"You shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar which the LORD your God hates." (Deuteronomy 16:22) The literal commandment is that we should not set up for ourselves a pillar.

"You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God." (Leviticus 26:1)

The literal commandment is that we should not place a figured stone in our land to bow down to it.  The Hebrew text of this verse can alternately be translated and understood to mean that we should not prostrate ourselves on a figured/carved/worked stone.

"You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make for yourself." (Deuteronomy 16:21) The literal commandment of this verse tells us that we should not plant an Asherah [pole] of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD our G-d.

"You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and obliterate their name from that place." (Deuteronomy 12:2) The literal commandment is that we should destroy idols and the items associated with them in "all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods".

"The graven images of their gods you are to burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God. You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and like it come under the ban; you shall utterly detest it and you shall utterly abhor it, for it is something banned." (Deuteronomy 7:25-26) The literal commandment is that we should not bring an abomination (an idol) into our house. Included in the literal meaning of "bringing something into your house" is a Hebrew idiom that means to make something your own: e.g. a man brings his new bride "into his house" when they are married. In this manner a person could "derive benefit" from making an idol his own possession.

"The graven images of their gods you are to burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God. You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and like it come under the ban; you shall utterly detest it and you shall utterly abhor it, for it is something banned." (Deuteronomy 7:25-26) The literal commandment is that we should not covet the silver or the gold that is on idols or take it for ourselves.

"When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you, and when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them." (Deuteronomy 7:25-26) The literal commandment is that we should make no covenant with the idolaters.

"When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you, and when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them." (Deuteronomy 7:1-2) The literal commandment is that we should utterly destroy the seven nations that were present in the Land before the Israelites entered during the time of Joshua.

"Moreover, you shall not follow the customs of the nation which I will drive out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I have abhorred them." (Leviticus 20:23) The literal commandment is that we should not follow the customs of the nation which G-d drove out of the Land before the Israelites.

"'You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination or soothsaying." (Leviticus 19:26) The literal commandment is that we should not practice divination or soothsaying.

"Also if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by an obligation in her father's house in her youth," (Numbers 30:3-5)

"There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead." (Deuteronomy 18:10-11) The literal commandment is that we should not use divination.

"All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall pass over his head. He shall be holy until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the LORD; he shall let the locks of hair on his head grow long." (Numbers 6:5)

"'You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination or soothsaying.' " (Leviticus 19:26) The literal commandment is that we should not practice divination: "foretelling future events or revealing occult knowledge by means of augury or an alleged supernatural agency."

"All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall pass over his head. He shall be holy until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the LORD; he shall let the locks of hair on his head grow long." (Numbers 6:5)

"There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead." (Deuteronomy 18:10-11) The literal commandment is that we should not cast a spell.

"he shall abstain from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes." (Numbers 6:3)

"There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead." (Deuteronomy 18:10-11) The literal commandment is that we should not "call up" the dead.

"There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead." (Deuteronomy 18:10-11) The literal commandment is that we should not be a spiritist (one who calls up spirits or ghosts).

"There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead." (Deuteronomy 18:10-11) The literal commandment is that we should not be a medium (an intermediary between the living and the dead).

"There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead." (Deuteronomy 18:10-11) The literal commandment is that we should not practice witchcraft or cast a spell.

"he shall abstain from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes." (Numbers 6:3)

"You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard." (Leviticus 19:27) The LITV translation says, "You shall not round the edge of your head, nor mar the edge of your beard." (Leviticus 19:27 LITV) The literal commandment is that we should not harm the edges of our beards.

"he shall abstain from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes." (Numbers 6:3)

"A woman shall not wear man's clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God." (Deuteronomy 22:5) The literal commandment is that men should not put on (i.e. wear) women's clothing.

"All the days of his separation he shall not eat anything that is produced by the grape vine, from the seeds even to the skin." (Numbers 6:4)

"A woman shall not wear man's clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God." (Deuteronomy 22:5) The literal commandment is that women should not put on (i.e. wear) men's clothing.

"All the days of his separation he shall not eat anything that is produced by the grape vine, from the seeds even to the skin." (Numbers 6:4)

"'You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD." (Leviticus 19:28) The literal commandment is that we should not make any tattoo marks on ourselves.

"'You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD." (Leviticus 19:28) The literal commandment is that we should not make any cuts on our bodies for the dead.

"You are the sons of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead." (Leviticus 19:28) The literal commandment is that we should not shave our forehead for the sake of the dead. The Hebrew literally reads, "do not make baldness between your eyes for the dead".

"Speak to the sons of Israel, 'When a man or woman commits any of the sins of mankind, acting unfaithfully against the LORD, and that person is guilty, then he shall confess his sins which he has committed, and he shall make restitution in full for his wrong and add to it one-fifth of it, and give it to him whom he has wronged." (Numbers 5:6-7) The literal commandment is that we should confess our sins and make restitution.

"Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. (Deuteronomy 6:4-7)

The literal commandment is that we should speak the words of this passage when we lie down and when we rise up.

"You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their sacred pillars in pieces. But you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your midst. There shall be no one miscarrying or barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days."" (Exodus 23:24-26) The literal commandment is that we should "serve the LORD" our G-d. How we should serve Him is not specified in this passage.

"Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them:

The LORD bless you, and keep you;
The LORD make His face shine on you, And be gracious to you;
The LORD lift up His countenance on you, And give you peace.'

So they shall invoke My name on the sons of Israel, and I then will bless them." " (Numbers 6:23-27) The literal commandment is that the Aaronic priests should bless the sons of Israel using what is traditionally called "The Aaronic Blessing". How frequently this should be done is not specified in this passage.

"These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead." (Deuteronomy 6:6-8) The literal commandment is that we should bind G-d's words as frontals on our foreheads.

"These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead." (Deuteronomy 6:6-8) The literal commandment is that we should bind G-d's words upon our hand.

"Now therefore, write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it on their lips, so that this song may be a witness for Me against the sons of Israel." (Deuteronomy 31:19) The literal commandment is that we should write the song of Moses" (Deuteronomy 32:1-43) for ourselves.

"Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests." (Deuteronomy 17:18) The literal commandment is that the king of Israel should write for himself a copy of the law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.

"Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them that they shall make for themselves tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put on the tassel of each corner a cord of blue." (Numbers 15:38) The literal commandment is that we should make tassels on the corners of our garments.

"When you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you." (Deuteronomy 8:10) The literal commandment is that we should bless G-d after we have eaten.

"On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised." (Leviticus 12:3) Given in the same passage that deals with the birth of a male child, this commandment to circumcise is only for male children.

"Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as your stranger, may refresh themselves." " (Exodus 23:12) The literal commandment is that we should cease from our labor on the seventh day of the week.

"Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy." (Exodus 20:9-11) The literal commandment is that we should not do any work on the seventh day of the week.

"For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day, a sabbath of complete rest to the LORD; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death." (Exodus 35:2) The literal commandment is that whoever does any work on the Sabbath should be put to death.

"All the days of his separation to the LORD he shall not go near to a dead person." (Numbers 6:6)

"See, the LORD has given you the sabbath; therefore He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Remain every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day." (Exodus 16:29) The literal commandment is every man [person] should remain in their place on the seventh day.

"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy" (Exodus 20:8) The literal commandment is that we remember the sabbath day and keep it holy.

"It is to be a sabbath of complete rest to you, and you shall humble your souls; on the ninth of the month at evening, from evening until evening you shall keep your sabbath." (Leviticus 23:32) The literal commandment is that the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:28) should be a sabbath of complete rest.

"He shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head." (Numbers 6:7)

"It is to be a sabbath of complete rest to you, and you shall humble your souls; on the ninth of the month at evening, from evening until evening you shall keep your sabbath." (Leviticus 23:32) The literal commandment is that the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:28) should be a sabbath of complete rest.

"But if a man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his dedicated head of hair, then he shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; he shall shave it on the seventh day." (Numbers 6:9)

"This shall be a permanent statute for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble your souls and not do any work, whether the native, or the alien who sojourns among you; for it is on this day that atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you; you will be clean from all your sins before the LORD." (Leviticus 16:29) The literal commandment is that we should "humble our souls" on the Day of Atonement.

"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When a man makes a difficult vow, he shall be valued according to your valuation of persons belonging to the LORD." (Leviticus 27:2-8)

"If there is any person who will not humble himself on this same day, he shall be cut off from his people." (Leviticus 23:29) The literal commandment is that we should humble ourselves on this same day [the Day of Atonement- verse 28].

"The priest shall value it as either good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be." (Leviticus 27:12-13)

"Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work." (Leviticus 23:7) The literal commandment is that we should not do any laborious work on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

"Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand." (Leviticus 27:14)

"Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work." (Leviticus 23:7) The literal commandment is that we should not do any laborious work on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

"Again, if a man consecrates to the LORD part of the fields of his own property, then your valuation shall be proportionate to the seed needed for it: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver." (Leviticus 27:16)

"But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work." (Leviticus 23:8) The literal commandment is that we should not do any laborious work on the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

"Nevertheless, anything which a man sets apart to the LORD out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the fields of his own property, shall not be sold or redeemed. Anything devoted to destruction is most holy to the LORD." (Leviticus 27:28)

"But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work." (Leviticus 23:8) The literal commandment is that we should not do any laborious work on the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

"Nevertheless, anything which a man sets apart to the LORD out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the fields of his own property, shall not be sold or redeemed. Anything devoted to destruction is most holy to the LORD." (Leviticus 27:28)

"On this same day you shall make a proclamation as well; you are to have a holy convocation. You shall do no laborious work. It is to be a perpetual statute in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.(Leviticus 23:21) The literal commandment is that we should do no laborious work on the fiftieth day after Passover: the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot).

"Nevertheless, anything which a man sets apart to the LORD out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the fields of his own property, shall not be sold or redeemed. Anything devoted to destruction is most holy to the LORD." (Leviticus 27:28)

"On this same day you shall make a proclamation as well; you are to have a holy convocation. You shall do no laborious work. It is to be a perpetual statute in all your dwelling places throughout your generations." (Leviticus 23:21) The literal commandment is that we should do no laborious work on the fiftieth day after Passover: the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot).

"You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material mixed together." (Leviticus 19:19)

"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.(Leviticus 23:24) The literal commandment is that we should have a rest [shabbaton] on the first day of the seventh month (The Feast of Trumpets- Yom Teruah).

"You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or all the produce of the seed which you have sown and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled." (Deuteronomy 22:9)

"'You shall not do any laborious work, but you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD." (Leviticus 23:25) The literal commandment is that we should not do any laborious work on the first day of the seventh month (The Feast of Trumpets- Yom Teruah).

"On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work of any kind." (Leviticus 23:24) The literal commandment is that we should do no laborious work of any kind on the fifteenth of the seventh month (the Feast of Booths/Tabernacles- Sukkot).

"You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material mixed together." (Leviticus 19:19)

"On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work of any kind." (Leviticus 23:24) The literal commandment is that we should do no laborious work of any kind on the fifteenth of the seventh month (the Feast of Booths/Tabernacles- Sukkot).

"For seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and present an offering by fire to the LORD; it is an assembly. You shall do no laborious work." (Leviticus 23:36) The literal commandment is that we should do no laborious work on the eighth day of the Feast of Booths/Tabernacles (Sukkot).

"For seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and present an offering by fire to the LORD; it is an assembly. You shall do no laborious work." (Leviticus 23:36) The literal commandment is that we should do no laborious work on the eighth day of the Feast of Booths/Tabernacles (Sukkot).

"You shall not eat leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), so that you may remember all the days of your life the day when you came out of the land of Egypt." (Deuteronomy 16:3) The literal commandment is that we should not eat leavened bread with the Passover lamb" (Deuteronomy 16:2) on the fourteenth day of the month of Nisan: the day of Passover.

"You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together." (Deuteronomy 22:10)

"Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel." (Exodus 12:15) The literal commandment is that on the first day (of the Feast of Unleavened Bread) we should remove leaven from our houses.

"You shall not wear a material mixed of wool and linen together." (Deuteronomy 22:11)

"Moses said to the people, "Remember this day in which you went out from Egypt, from the house of slavery; for by a powerful hand the LORD brought you out from this place. And nothing leavened shall be eaten."" (Exodus 13:3) The literal commandment is that nothing leavened shall be eaten (during the Feast of Unleavened Bread).

"Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the LORD your God." (Leviticus 19:10)

"You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread." (Exodus 12:20) The literal commandment is that we should not eat anything leavened (during the Feast of Unleavened Bread).

"Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest." (Leviticus 19:9)

"Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and nothing leavened shall be seen among you, nor shall any leaven be seen among you in all your borders." (Exodus 13:7) The literal commandment is that no leaven shall be seen in all your borders (during the Feast of Unleavened Bread).

"Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest." (Leviticus 19:9)

"Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land." (Exodus 12:19) The literal commandment is that there shall be no leaven found in your houses (during the Feast of Unleavened Bread).

"Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest." (Leviticus 19:9)

"In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening." (Exodus 12:18) The literal commandment is that we should eat unleavened bread on the fourteenth day of the first month at evening (i.e. the first night of Passover).

"Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the LORD your God." (Leviticus 19:10)

"You shall tell your son on that day, saying, 'It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.'" (Exodus 13:8) The literal commandment is that we should tell our children about the Exodus from Egypt on the first day of Passover.

"Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the LORD your God." (Leviticus 19:10)

"Now in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall also have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets." (Numbers 29:1) The literal commandment is that the first day of the seventh month (Yom Teruah) shall be a day for blowing trumpets.

"Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the LORD your God." (Leviticus 19:10)

"You shall live in booths for seven days; all the native-born in Israel shall live in booths, so that your generations may know that I had the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God." (Leviticus 23:42-43) The literal commandment is that we should live in "booths" (temporary structure) for seven days during Sukkot: the Feast of Tabernacles.

"Now on the first day you shall take for yourselves the foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days." (Leviticus 23:40) The literal commandment is to take the foliage [literally "fruit"] of beautiful trees, palm branches, and boughs of leafy trees and willows and rejoice before G-d for seven days during Sukkot: the Feast of Tabernacles.

"This is what everyone who is numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to the LORD." (Exodus 30:13) The literal commandment is for those who take part in the census of Israel to give half a shekel.

"Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the LORD your God." (Leviticus 19:10)

"When you go to war in your land against the adversary who attacks you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the LORD your God, and be saved from your enemies." (Exodus 30:13) The literal commandment is to sound an alarm with trumpets when going to war in the Land of Israel against those who attack you.

"When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands." (Deuteronomy 24:19)

"If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then turns against her..." (Deuteronomy 22:13) The literal commandment is that a man should take a wife and then "go in to her" (i.e. be conjugally intimate).

"None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute." (Deuteronomy 23:17)

This commandment literally says that none of the daughter of Israel should be a cult prostitute.

The general meaning is "there shall be no licentious women of the daughters of Israel" (i.e. they should be married before having sexual relations).

"If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her [his first wife's] food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights." (Exodus 21:10) The literal commandment is that a man should not reduce his first wife's food, clothing, or conjugal rights if he takes another wife.

"When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands." (Deuteronomy 24:19)

"God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth." " (Genesis 1:28) The literal commandment is that a man and his wife should be fruitful and multiply their offspring.

"At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year, and shall deposit it in your town." (Deuteronomy 14:28)

"When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house..." (Deuteronomy 24:1) The literal commandment is that a man should should write a certificate of divorce to a wife in whom has been found some indecency.

"When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's wife, and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife, then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance." (Deuteronomy 24:1-4) The literal commandment is that a man should not re-marry the wife he divorced if she remarries after their divorce and her new husband dies or divorces her.

"When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her." (Deuteronomy 25:5) The literal commandment is that a man should marry his deceased brother's childless widow.

"but you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks." (Deuteronomy 15:8)

"When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel. But if the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.' Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, 'I do not desire to take her,' then his brother's wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, 'Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.' In Israel his name shall be called, 'The house of him whose sandal is removed.' " (Deuteronomy 25:5-10) The literal commandment is that a childless widow should perform a certain ceremony to indicate that a levirite marriage with her brother-in-law will not occur.

"When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel. But if the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.' Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, 'I do not desire to take her,' then his brother's wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, 'Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.' In Israel his name shall be called, 'The house of him whose sandal is removed.'" (Deuteronomy 25:5-10) The literal commandment is that a childless widow should not be married outside of her family... unless a certain ceremony takes place to free the brother and the widow from the levirite marriage.

"If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and lies with her, he must pay a dowry for her to be his wife. If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins." (Exodus 22:16-17) The literal commandment is that a man who seduces a virgin should pay a dowry for her whether or not she becomes his wife.

"If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered, then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days." (Deuteronomy 22:28) The literal commandment is that a man who seizes and lies with a virgin must pay fifty shekels of silver and must marry the woman without possibility of divorce.

"then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days." (Deuteronomy 22:29)

"and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl's father, because he publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days." (Deuteronomy 22:19)

"and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl's father, because he publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days." (Deuteronomy 22:19)

"or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife, he shall then make the woman stand before the LORD, and the priest shall apply all this law to her." (Numbers 5:30)

"If there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother;" (Deuteronomy 15:7)

"the man shall then bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring as an offering for her one-tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall not pour oil on it nor put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, a reminder of iniquity." (Numbers 5:15)

"the man shall then bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring as an offering for her one-tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall not pour oil on it nor put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, a reminder of iniquity." (Numbers 5:15)

"You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you are not to uncover her nakedness." (Leviticus 18:7)

"You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the first shearing of your sheep." (Deuteronomy 18:4)

"You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness." (Leviticus 18:8)

"Moreover, you shall speak to the Levites and say to them, 'When you take from the sons of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present an offering from it to the LORD, a tithe of the tithe." (Numbers 18:26)

"The nakedness of your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether born at home or born outside, their nakedness you shall not uncover." (Leviticus 18:9)

"You shall not delay the offering from your harvest and your vintage. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me." (Exodus 22:29)

"The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, born to your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness." (Leviticus 18:11)

"No layman, however, is to eat the holy gift; a sojourner with the priest or a hired man shall not eat of the holy gift." (Leviticus 22:10)

"The nakedness of your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for their nakedness is yours." (Leviticus 18:10)

"No layman, however, is to eat the holy gift; a sojourner with the priest or a hired man shall not eat of the holy gift." (Leviticus 22:10)

"None of you shall approach any blood relative of his to uncover nakedness; I am the LORD." (Leviticus 18:6)

"It is to be eaten in a single house; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, nor are you to break any bone of it." (Exodus 12:48)

"The nakedness of your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for their nakedness is yours." (Leviticus 18:10)

"No man of the descendants of Aaron, who is a leper or who has a discharge, may eat of the holy gifts until he is clean. And if one touches anything made unclean by a corpse or if a man has a seminal emission," (Leviticus 22:4)

"You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, nor shall you take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are blood relatives. It is lewdness." (Leviticus 18:17)

"If a priest's daughter is married to a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the gifts." (Leviticus 22:12)

"You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, nor shall you take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are blood relatives. It is lewdness." (Leviticus 18:17)

"For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they offer as an offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance; therefore I have said concerning them, 'They shall have no inheritance among the sons of Israel.'" (Numbers 18:24)

"You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, nor shall you take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are blood relatives. It is lewdness." (Leviticus 18:17)

"You shall surely tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes out of the field every year." (Deuteronomy 14:22)

"You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's blood relative." (Leviticus 18:12)

"I have not eaten of it while mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God; I have done according to all that You have commanded me." (Deuteronomy 26:14)

"You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's blood relative." (Leviticus 18:13)

"I have not eaten of it while mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God; I have done according to all that You have commanded me." (Deuteronomy 26:14)

"You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother; you shall not approach his wife, she is your aunt." (Leviticus 18:14)

"I have not eaten of it while mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God; I have done according to all that You have commanded me." (Deuteronomy 26:14)

"You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness." (Leviticus 18:15)

"You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand." (Deuteronomy 12:17-18)

"You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness." (Leviticus 18:16)

"You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand." (Deuteronomy 12:17-18)

"You shall not marry a woman in addition to her sister as a rival while she is alive, to uncover her nakedness." (Leviticus 18:18)

"You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand." (Deuteronomy 12:17-18)

"Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion." (Leviticus 18:23)

"But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD." (Leviticus 19:24)

"Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion." (Leviticus 18:23)

"You shall say before the LORD your God, 'I have removed the sacred portion from my house, and also have given it to the Levite and the alien, the orphan and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed or forgotten any of Your commandments." (Deuteronomy 26:13)

"You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination." (Leviticus 18:22)

"You shall bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. 'You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother." (Exodus 23:19)

"You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you are not to uncover her nakedness." (Leviticus 18:7)

"You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand." (Deuteronomy 12:17-18)

"You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother; you shall not approach his wife, she is your aunt." (Leviticus 18:14)

"You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, 'My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation." (Deuteronomy 26:5)

"You shall not have intercourse with your neighbor's wife, to be defiled with her." (Leviticus 18:20)

"Of the first of your dough you shall lift up a cake as an offering; as the offering of the threshing floor, so you shall lift it up." (Numbers 15:20)

"Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity." (Leviticus 18:19)

"Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons." (Deuteronomy 7:3)

"No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the LORD; none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall ever enter the assembly of the LORD, because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you." (Deuteronomy 23:3-4)

"Now this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, either an ox or a sheep, of which they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach." (Deuteronomy 18:3)

"You shall not detest an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not detest an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land. The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD." (Deuteronomy 23:7-8)

"You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the first shearing of your sheep." (Deuteronomy 18:4)

"You shall not detest an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not detest an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land. The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD." (Deuteronomy 23:7-8)

"Every first issue of the womb of all flesh, whether man or animal, which they offer to the LORD, shall be yours; nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem." (Numbers 18:15)

"No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the LORD; none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall ever enter the assembly of the LORD," (Deuteronomy 23:3)

"But every first offspring of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem." (Exodus 13:13)

"No one who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD." (Deuteronomy 23:1)

"But every first offspring of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem." (Exodus 13:13)

"Also anything with its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut, you shall not offer to the LORD, or sacrifice in your land," (Leviticus 22:24)

"You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest." (Exodus 34:21)

"A widow, or a divorced woman, or one who is profaned by harlotry, these he may not take; but rather he is to marry a virgin of his own people, so that he will not profane his offspring among his people; for I am the LORD who sanctifies him." (Leviticus 21:14) The high priest (verse 10) may not take a widow for a wife.

"but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard." (Leviticus 25:4)

"'A widow, or a divorced woman, or one who is profaned by harlotry, these he may not take; but rather he is to marry a virgin of his own people, so that he will not profane his offspring among his people; for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.'"" (Leviticus 21:15) The literal commandment is that the high priest (verse 10) should not profane his offspring [literally: seed] among his people. Since that would occur through sexual relations with someone G-d has forbidden to him this prohibition is understood that he cannot have sexual relations (even outside of marriage) with a widow.

"but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard." (Leviticus 25:4)

"He shall take a wife in her virginity." (Leviticus 21:13) The literal commandment is that the high priest (verse 10) should take a wife who is a virgin.

"Your harvest's aftergrowth you shall not reap, and your grapes of untrimmed vines you shall not gather; the land shall have a sabbatical year." (Leviticus 25:5)

"They shall not take a woman who is profaned by harlotry, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God." (Leviticus 21:7) The priests, the sons of Aaron (verse 1) may not take a woman divorced from her husband for a wife.

"Your harvest's aftergrowth you shall not reap, and your grapes of untrimmed vines you shall not gather; the land shall have a sabbatical year." (Leviticus 25:5)

"They shall not take a woman who is profaned by harlotry, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God." (Leviticus 21:7) The priests, the sons of Aaron (verse 1) may not take a woman who has been "profaned by harlotry". The Hebrew phrase translated as "profaned by harlotry" uses a word (tzanah) that implies willful and harlotrous behavior.

"but on the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove." (Exodus 23:11)

"They shall not take a woman who is profaned by harlotry, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God." (Leviticus 21:7) The priests, the sons of Aaron (verse 1) may not take a profaned woman for a wife.

"This is the manner of remission: every creditor shall release what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother, because the LORD'S remission has been proclaimed." (Deuteronomy 15:2)

"None of you shall approach any blood relative of his to uncover nakedness; I am the LORD." (Leviticus 18:6)

"This is the manner of remission: every creditor shall release what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother, because the LORD'S remission has been proclaimed." (Deuteronomy 15:2)

"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'These are the creatures which you may eat from all the animals that are on the earth.'" (Leviticus 11:2)

"Beware that there is no base thought in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,' and your eye is hostile toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to the LORD against you, and it will be a sin in you." (Deuteronomy 15:9)

"You may eat any clean bird." (Deuteronomy 14:11)

"You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years." (Leviticus 25:8)

"These you may eat, whatever is in the water: all that have fins and scales, those in the water, in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat." (Leviticus 11:9)

"You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family." (Leviticus 25:10)

"Yet these you may eat among all the winged insects which walk on all fours: those which have above their feet jointed legs with which to jump on the earth." (Leviticus 11:21)

"You shall then sound a ram's horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land." (Leviticus 25:9)

"Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these, among those which chew the cud, or among those which divide the hoof: the camel, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you." (Leviticus 11:4)

"These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard, and the kite and the falcon in its kind, every raven in its kind, and the ostrich and the owl and the sea gull and the hawk in its kind, and the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl, and the white owl and the pelican and the carrion vulture, and the stork, the heron in its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat." (Leviticus 11:13-19) The literal commandment is that we are not to eat birds (flying animals) that are forbidden in this list.

"These you may eat, whatever is in the water: all that have fins and scales, those in the water, in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat. But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you, and they shall be abhorrent to you; you may not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses you shall detest. Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is abhorrent to you." (Leviticus 11:9-12)

"And all the teeming life with wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten." (Deuteronomy 14:19)

"You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines." (Leviticus 25:11)

"Now every swarming thing that swarms on the earth is detestable, not to be eaten." (Leviticus 11:41)

"You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines." (Leviticus 25:11)

"For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. And you shall not make yourselves unclean with any of the swarming things that swarm on the earth." (Leviticus 11:44)

"Whatever crawls on its belly, and whatever walks on all fours, whatever has many feet, in respect to every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat them, for they are detestable." (Leviticus 11:42)

"You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines." (Leviticus 25:11)

"Do not render yourselves detestable through any of the swarming things that swarm; and you shall not make yourselves unclean with them so that you become unclean." (Leviticus 11:43)

"Thus for every piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land." (Leviticus 25:24)

"You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your town, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk." (Deuteronomy 14:21)

"The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me." (Leviticus 25:23)

"If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished." (Exodus 21:28)

"Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then his redemption right remains valid until a full year from its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year." (Leviticus 25:29)

"You shall be holy men to Me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh torn to pieces in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs." (Exodus 22:31)

"Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to live in; and you shall give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities." (Numbers 35:2)

"Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh." (Deuteronomy 12:23)

"But pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their perpetual possession." (Leviticus 25:34)

"It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.'" (Leviticus 3:17)

"But he did not give any to the sons of Kohath because theirs was the service of the holy objects, which they carried on the shoulder." (Numbers 7:9)

"It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.'" (Leviticus 3:17) The literal commandment is that we are not to eat any "fat".

"Only the Levites shall perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the sons of Israel they shall have no inheritance." (Numbers 18:23)

"Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip which is on the socket of the thigh, because he touched the socket of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip." (Genesis 32:32)

"And they shall thus attend to your obligation and the obligation of all the tent, but they shall not come near to the furnishings of the sanctuary and the altar, or both they and you will die." (Numbers 18:3)

"You shall bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. 'You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother." (Exodus 23:19)

"You shall bring the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. 'You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk." (Exodus 34:26)

"Until this same day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new growth. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places." (Leviticus 23:14)

"You shall consecrate him, therefore, for he offers the food of your God; he shall be holy to you; for I the LORD, who sanctifies you, am holy." (Leviticus 21:8)

"Until this same day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new growth. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places." (Leviticus 23:14)

"Now if a Levite comes from any of your towns throughout Israel where he resides, and comes whenever he desires to the place which the LORD chooses," (Deuteronomy 18:6-8)

"Until this same day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new growth. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places." (Leviticus 23:14)

"You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty." (Exodus 28:2)

"When you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten." (Leviticus 19:23)

"There shall be an opening at its top in the middle of it; around its opening there shall be a binding of woven work, like the opening of a coat of mail, so that it will not be torn." (Exodus 28:32)

"You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or all the produce of the seed which you have sown and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled." (Deuteronomy 22:9)

"But if a man eats a holy gift unintentionally, then he shall add to it a fifth of it and shall give the holy gift to the priest." (Leviticus 22:14-15)

"Do not drink wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the tent of meeting, so that you will not die--it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations--" (Leviticus 10:9)

"Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your hiding place!" (Deuteronomy 32:38)

"If the place which the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter of your herd and flock which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates whatever you desire." (Deuteronomy 12:21)

"But, whether it is an ox or a sheep, you shall not kill both it and its young in one day." (Leviticus 22:28)

"hen Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, 'Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, so that you will not die and that He will not become wrathful against all the congregation. But your kinsmen, the whole house of Israel, shall bewail the burning which the LORD has brought about." (Leviticus 10:6)

"So when any man from the sons of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, in hunting catches a beast or a bird which may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth." (Leviticus 17:13)

The blood of animals caught while hunting shall be poured out and covered with dirt.

"The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the LORD'S offerings by fire and His portion." (Deuteronomy 18:1) This commandment is literally that the members of the tribe of Levi have no portion or inheritance in the Land of Israel.

"hen Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, 'Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, so that you will not die and that He will not become wrathful against all the congregation. But your kinsmen, the whole house of Israel, shall bewail the burning which the LORD has brought about." (Leviticus 10:6)

"The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the LORD'S offerings by fire and His portion." (Deuteronomy 18:1) The Levites are forbidden to have any portion with Israel.

"he LORD said to Moses: 'Tell your brother Aaron that he shall not enter at any time into the holy place inside the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark, or he will die; for I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat." (Leviticus 16:2)

"Let them construct a sanctuary for Me, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I am going to show you, as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture, just so you shall construct it." (Exodus 25:8-9) The literal commandment given to the Israelites was for them to construct a "sanctuary" (Hebrew miqdash: a holy place). Since G-d is a Holy G-d He does not just show up and "hang out" with the Israelites. His Holiness requires a holy space in the midst of the Israelite camp.

"If you make an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if you wield your tool on it, you will profane it." (Exodus 20:25) Profane literally means "marked by contempt or irreverence for what is sacred". If the Israelites make an altar of cut stones (i.e. using metal) then they will make the stones (and thus the altar) a common thing. Common things are not treated with the reverence that G-d demands in our activities involving Him.

"You shall not even go out from the doorway of the tent of meeting, or you will die; for the LORD'S anointing oil is upon you.' So they did according to the word of Moses." (Leviticus 10:7)

"And you shall not go up by steps to My altar, so that your nakedness will not be exposed on it.'" (Exodus 20:26) The Levites were commanded not to go up by steps to G-d's altar.

"Command the sons of Israel that they send away from the camp every leper and everyone having a discharge and everyone who is unclean because of a dead person." (Numbers 5:2)

"'You shall keep My sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the LORD.
(Leviticus 19:30) The Hebrew word translated here as "revere" literally means "to fear", "to revere", or "to dread".{footnote}Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries, Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.{/footnote}When we consider the sovereign G-d over all creation dwelling in majesty in the tabernacle it is indeed a place of power, might, and awe. Like we might be in fear and dread around a 10,000 volt high power line, we should have an even greater fear and dread of the Most High dwelling in His sanctuary.Nadab and Abihu (the sons of Aaron the high priest) did not approach G-d and the sanctuary with the appropriate reverence but offered strange fire before Him and they were consumed by fire that went out from His presence (Levitcus 10:1-2). That pictures the consequence of violating this commandment.

"But bring with you also your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may be joined with you and serve you, while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony." (Leviticus 19:30) This commandment is literally for Aaron and his sons (the Aaronic priests) to be "before the tent of the testimony" (the Tabernacle). The Hebrew word that might suggest "guarding" [shamar] is not present in this verse. Their presence, however, might suggest guarding in order to prevent injury or harm to those who are improperly prepared to come into the holy precinct of the Tabernacle.

"So you shall attend to the obligations of the sanctuary and the obligations of the altar, so that there will no longer be wrath on the sons of Israel." (Numbers 18:5) This commandment is literally for Aaron and his sons (the Aaronic priests) to attend to the obligations [Hebrew: mishmereth- guard, watch, charge, or function] of the sanctuary. The last part of the verse ("so that there will no longer be wrath on the sons of Israel") refers to the rebellion of Korah" (Numbers 16 & 17) that was settled by G-d in Numbers 17:8.

"You shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations." (Exodus 30:31) Earlier in chapter 30, G-d commands a specific mixture of spices to be created for anointing the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, and the other furniture and utensils of the tabernacle. This verse indicates the commandment is an ongoing and perpetual commandment.While Scripture says the creation of the oil shall be "the work of a perfumer"" (Exodus 30:25) it does not specify a male or female perfumer nor does it specify that a Levitical priest should create it.

"'It shall not be poured on anyone's body, nor shall you make any like it in the same proportions; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you. Whoever shall mix any like it or whoever puts any of it on a layman shall be cut off from his people.'" " (Exodus 30:32-33) This commandment is for the sons of Israel (Ex 30:31) and provides a prohibition for them to make any anointing oil in the same proportions as the holy oil described earlier in the chapter (Ex 30:23-24) that is supposed to be made explicitly for the purpose of anointing the Levitical priests, the tabernacle and its furnishings.

"'It shall not be poured on anyone's body, nor shall you make any like it in the same proportions; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you. Whoever shall mix any like it or whoever puts any of it on a layman shall be cut off from his people.'" (Exodus 30:32-33) This passage provides a prohibition against anointing anyone other than the Aaronic priests (Ex 30:30) with an anointing oil made with a specific mixture of spices and specifically prohibits putting any of it on "a layman" [Hebrew: tzur- a stranger or foreigner{footnote}Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitions{/footnote}].

"You shall send away both male and female; you shall send them outside the camp so that they will not defile their camp where I dwell in their midst." (Numbers 5:3)

"The incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the LORD." (Exodus 30:37) This negative commandment provides a prohibition against making incense in the proportions given in Exodus 30:34-35.

"But it shall be when evening approaches, he shall bathe himself with water, and at sundown he may reenter the camp." (Deuteronomy 23:11)

"You shall not offer any strange incense on this altar, or burnt offering or meal offering; and you shall not pour out a drink offering on it.
(Exodus 30:32-33) This commandment provides a prohibition against pouring out anything other than incense upon the golden altar of incense.

"Tell Aaron and his sons to be careful with the holy gifts of the sons of Israel, which they dedicate to Me, so as not to profane My holy name; I am the LORD." (Leviticus 22:2)

"The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it." (Exodus 25:15) G-d commanded Moses to build the ark of the covenant. The ark was to have two staves/poles that were placed through rings on the sides of the ark. This commandment instructs us not to remove the staves from the ark.

"No man of the descendants of Aaron, who is a leper or who has a discharge, may eat of the holy gifts until he is clean. And if one touches anything made unclean by a corpse or if a man has a seminal emission, or if a man touches any teeming things by which he is made unclean, or any man by whom he is made unclean, whatever his uncleanness; a person who touches any such shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat of the holy gifts unless he has bathed his body in water. But when the sun sets, he will be clean, and afterward he shall eat of the holy gifts, for it is his food." (Leviticus 22:4-7)

"They shall bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that it will be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece will not come loose from the ephod." (Exodus 28:28) The commandment indicates that the breastpiece should not "come loose from the ephod". The Hebrew word translated as "come loose" (above) suggests intentional removal. The Hebrew word zachach is literally translated as "shove"{footnote}Strong's Concordance of the Bible- H2118{/footnote} or "remove"{footnote}New American Standard(r) Updated Edition Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries, Copyright (c) 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation. All Rights Reserved.{/footnote}... both intentional acts.

"Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet from it [bronze laver]; when they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, so that they will not die; or when they approach the altar to minister, by offering up in smoke a fire sacrifice to the LORD." (Exodus 30:19) The priests, the sons of Aaron must wash their hands and feet before ministering in the tabernacle or Temple.

"nly he shall not go in to the veil or come near the altar because he has a defect, so that he will not profane My sanctuaries. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.'" (Leviticus 21:23)

"Speak to Aaron, saying, 'No man of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect shall approach to offer the food of his God." (Leviticus 21:17)

"Speak to Aaron, saying, 'No man of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect shall approach to offer the food of his God." (Leviticus 21:17)

"They shall be joined with you and attend to the obligations of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; but an outsider may not come near you." (Numbers 18:4)

"When a man offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to fulfill a special vow or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it must be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no defect in it." (Leviticus 22:21)

"Whatever has a defect, you shall not offer, for it will not be accepted for you." (Leviticus 22:20)

"Those that are blind or fractured or maimed or having a running sore or eczema or scabs, you shall not offer to the LORD, nor make of them an offering by fire on the altar to the LORD." (Leviticus 22:22)

"Also anything with its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut, you shall not offer to the LORD, or sacrifice in your land," (Leviticus 22:24)

"Those that are blind or fractured or maimed or having a running sore or eczema or scabs, you shall not offer to the LORD, nor make of them an offering by fire on the altar to the LORD." (Leviticus 22:22)

"You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep which has a blemish or any defect, for that is a detestable thing to the LORD your God." (Deuteronomy 17:1)

"nor shall you accept any such from the hand of a foreigner for offering as the food of your God; for their corruption is in them, they have a defect, they shall not be accepted for you.'" (Leviticus 22:25)

"When a man offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to fulfill a special vow or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it must be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no defect in it." (Leviticus 22:21-22)

"However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer." (Deuteronomy 12:15)

"When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be accepted as a sacrifice of an offering by fire to the LORD." (Leviticus 22:27)

"You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the wages of a dog into the house of the LORD your God for any votive offering, for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God." (Deuteronomy 23:18)

"No grain offering, which you bring to the LORD, shall be made with leaven, for you shall not offer up in smoke any leaven or any honey as an offering by fire to the LORD." (Leviticus 2:11)

"Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt, so that the salt of the covenant of your God shall not be lacking from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt." (Leviticus 2:13)

"Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt, so that the salt of the covenant of your God shall not be lacking from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt." (Leviticus 2:13)

"If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer it, a male without defect; he shall offer it at the doorway of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the LORD." (Leviticus 1:3)

"You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand." (Deuteronomy 12:17-18)

"Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is slain the sin offering shall be slain before the LORD; it is most holy." (Leviticus 6:25-30)

"So every grain offering of the priest shall be burned entirely. It shall not be eaten." (Leviticus 6:23)

"He shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer first that which is for the sin offering and shall nip its head at the front of its neck, but he shall not sever it." (Leviticus 5:8)

"Now this is the law of the guilt offering; it is most holy." (Leviticus 7:1)

"Thus they shall eat those things by which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration; but a layman shall not eat them, because they are holy." (Exodus 29:33)

"You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand." (Deuteronomy 12:17-18)

"Thus they shall eat those things by which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration; but a layman shall not eat them, because they are holy." (Exodus 29:33)

"Now this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which shall be presented to the LORD." (Leviticus 7:11)

"However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer." (Deuteronomy 12:15-16)

"Now when anyone presents a grain offering as an offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it." (Leviticus 2:1)

"But if his means are insufficient for two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then for his offering for that which he has sinned, he shall bring the tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall not put oil on it or place incense on it, for it is a sin offering." (Leviticus 5:11)

"But if his means are insufficient for two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then for his offering for that which he has sinned, he shall bring the tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall not put oil on it or place incense on it, for it is a sin offering." (Leviticus 5:11)

"What is left of it Aaron and his sons are to eat. It shall be eaten as unleavened cakes in a holy place; they are to eat it in the court of the tent of meeting." (Leviticus 6:16)

"It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering." (Leviticus 6:17)

"What is left of it Aaron and his sons are to eat. It shall be eaten as unleavened cakes in a holy place; they are to eat it in the court of the tent of meeting." (Leviticus 6:16)

"But you shall seek the LORD at the place which the LORD your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come." (Deuteronomy 12:5-6)

"However, if you refrain from vowing, it would not be sin in you." (Deuteronomy 23:22)

"then it shall come about that the place in which the LORD your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to the LORD." (Deuteronomy 12:11)

"Only your holy things which you may have and your votive offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses." (Deuteronomy 12:26)

"Any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp," (Leviticus 17:3-4)

"Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see," (Deuteronomy 12:13)

"You shall say to them, 'This is the offering by fire which you shall offer to the LORD: two male lambs one year old without defect as a continual burnt offering every day." (Numbers 28:3)

"The priest is to put on his linen robe, and he shall put on undergarments next to his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire reduces the burnt offering on the altar and place them beside the altar." (Leviticus 6:10)

"Command Aaron and his sons, saying, 'This is the law for the burnt offering: the burnt offering itself shall remain on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire on the altar is to be kept burning on it." (Leviticus 6:9) The literal commandment is to keep the fire that is on the altar burning.

"This is the offering which Aaron and his sons are to present to the LORD on the day when he is anointed; the tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening." (Leviticus 6:20)

"The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it. It shall not go out, but the priest shall burn wood on it every morning; and he shall lay out the burnt offering on it, and offer up in smoke the fat portions of the peace offerings on it." (Leviticus 6:12) The literal commandment is that the fire on the altar shall not be allowed to go out.

"Then on the sabbath day two male lambs one year old without defect, and two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and its drink offering:" (Numbers 28:9)

"Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it; he shall burn it every morning when he trims the lamps." (Exodus 30:7) Aaron the high priest was to burn "fragrant incense" on the golden altar of incense every morning when he trimmed the lamps of the menorah. Verse 8 indicates that he should also burn incense when he trimmed the lamps at twilight. Verse 8 concludes with this: When Aaron trims the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense. There shall be perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations." (Exodus 30:8)

"You shall charge the sons of Israel, that they bring you clear oil of beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually. In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout their generations for the sons of Israel." (Exodus 27:20-21) The literal commandment is to keep the lamp (the menorah) lit continually.

"You shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times." (Exodus 25:30) The Hebrew word translated here as "bread of the Presence" literally means "bread [of the] face".{footnote}Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries, Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.{/footnote} To be "in the face" of G-d is to literally be in His Presence. The King James translates this as "shewbread".

"Then at the beginning of each of your months you shall present a burnt offering to the LORD: two bulls and one ram, seven male lambs one year old without defect;" (Numbers 28:11)

"You shall present an offering by fire, a burnt offering to the LORD: two bulls and one ram and seven male lambs one year old, having them without defect." (Numbers 28:19)

"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the land which I am going to give to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest." (Leviticus 23:10)

"You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete sabbaths." (Leviticus 23:15)

"Also on the day of the first fruits, when you present a new grain offering to the LORD in your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work." (Numbers 28:26-31)

"You shall bring in from your dwelling places two loaves of bread for a wave offering, made of two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be of a fine flour, baked with leaven as first fruits to the LORD." (Leviticus 23:17)

"Now in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall also have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets." (Numbers 29:1-2)

"You shall present a burnt offering to the LORD as a soothing aroma: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs one year old, having them without defect;" (Numbers 29:8)

"Then on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work, and you shall observe a feast to the LORD for seven days." (Numbers 29:12-13)

"On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly; you shall do no laborious work." (Numbers 29:35-36)

"You shall not eat any detestable thing." (Deuteronomy 14:3)

"So if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings should ever be eaten on the third day, he who offers it will not be accepted, and it will not be reckoned to his benefit. It shall be an offensive thing, and the person who eats of it will bear his own iniquity." (Leviticus 7:18)

"It shall be eaten on the same day, you shall leave none of it until morning; I am the LORD." (Leviticus 22:30)

"Everyone who eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned the holy thing of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from his people." (Leviticus 19:8)

"Also the flesh that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. As for other flesh, anyone who is clean may eat such flesh." (Leviticus 7:19)

"But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the LORD, in his uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from his people." (Leviticus 7:20)

"but what is left over from the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire." (Leviticus 7:17)

"Also the flesh that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. As for other flesh, anyone who is clean may eat such flesh." (Leviticus 7:19)

"Aaron shall enter the holy place with this: with a bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering." (Leviticus 16:3)

"You shall consecrate to the LORD your God all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock; you shall not work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock." (Deuteronomy 15:19)

"You shall consecrate to the LORD your God all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock; you shall not work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock." (Deuteronomy 15:19)

"He shall make restitution for that which he has sinned against the holy thing, and shall add to it a fifth part of it and give it to the priest. The priest shall then make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and it will be forgiven him." (Leviticus 5:16) 

"You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight." (Exodus 12:6)

"You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My feast to remain overnight until morning." (Exodus 23:18)

"You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My feast to remain overnight until morning." (Exodus 23:18)

"Then the LORD said to Moses, 'Let them present their offering, one leader each day, for the dedication of the altar." (Numbers 9:11)

"They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs." (Exodus 12:8)

"Then the LORD said to Moses, 'Let them present their offering, one leader each day, for the dedication of the altar." (Numbers 9:11)

"Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails." (Exodus 12:9)

"It is to be eaten in a single house; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, nor are you to break any bone of it." (Exodus 12:46)

"The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, 'This is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat of it;" (Exodus 12:43)

"A sojourner or a hired servant shall not eat of it." (Exodus 12:45)

"But if a stranger sojourns with you, and celebrates the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it." (Exodus 12:48)

"It is to be eaten in a single house; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, nor are you to break any bone of it." (Exodus 12:46)

"Now the one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah;" (Numbers 9:12)

"And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire." (Exodus 12:10)

"Now the one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah;" (Numbers 9:12)

"For seven days no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory, and none of the flesh which you sacrifice on the evening of the first day shall remain overnight until morning." (Deuteronomy 16:4)

"Three times in a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed." (Deuteronomy 16:16)

"Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me." (Exodus 23:14)

"and you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in your towns." (Deuteronomy 16:14)

"Three times in a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed." (Deuteronomy 16:16)

"Be careful that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land." (Deuteronomy 12:19)

"Then Moses commanded them, saying, 'At the end of every seven years, at the time of the year of remission of debts, at the Feast of Booths," (Deuteronomy 31:10-12)

"you shall devote to the LORD the first offspring of every womb, and the first offspring of every beast that you own; the males belong to the LORD." (Exodus 13:2, 13:12)

"You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand." (Deuteronomy 12:17-18)

"But the firstborn of an ox or the firstborn of a sheep or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and shall offer up their fat in smoke as an offering by fire, for a soothing aroma to the LORD." (Numbers 18:17)

"For every tenth part of herd or flock, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the LORD." (Leviticus 27:32)

"He is not to be concerned whether it is good or bad, nor shall he exchange it; or if he does exchange it, then both it and its substitute shall become holy. It shall not be redeemed.'" (Leviticus 27:33)

"Now if anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and becomes guilty," (Leviticus 4:27)

"Now if a person sins and does any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, though he was unaware, still he is guilty and shall bear his punishment." (Leviticus 5:17-18)

"Then he shall bring to the priest his guilt offering to the LORD, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation, for a guilt offering," (Leviticus 6:6)

"But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD his guilt offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering." (Leviticus 5:7-11)

"Now if the whole congregation of Israel commits error and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly, and they commit any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and they become guilty;" (Leviticus 4:13)

"When she becomes clean from her discharge, she shall count off for herself seven days; and afterward she will be clean." (Leviticus 15:28-29)

"When the days of her purification are completed, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the doorway of the tent of meeting a one year old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering." (Leviticus 12:6)

"Now when the man with the discharge becomes cleansed from his discharge, then he shall count off for himself seven days for his cleansing; he shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in running water and will become clean." (Leviticus 15:13-14)

"Now on the eighth day he is to take two male lambs without defect, and a yearling ewe lamb without defect, and three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and one log of oil;" (Leviticus 14:10)

"He shall not replace it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; or if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall become holy." (Leviticus 27:10)

"He shall not replace it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; or if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall become holy." (Leviticus 27:10)

"However, a firstborn among animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the LORD, no man may consecrate it; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD'S." (Leviticus 27:26)

"This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean for seven days." (Numbers 19:14)

"This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, 'Speak to the sons of Israel that they bring you an unblemished red heifer in which is no defect and on which a yoke has never been placed." (Numbers 19:2)

"So it shall be a perpetual statute for them. And he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening." (Numbers 19:21)

"If the leprosy breaks out farther on the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of him who has the infection from his head even to his feet, as far as the priest can see," (Leviticus 13:12)

"Be careful against an infection of leprosy, that you diligently observe and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you; as I have commanded them, so you shall be careful to do." (Deuteronomy 24:8)

"then he shall shave himself, but he shall not shave the scale; and the priest shall isolate the person with the scale seven more days." (Leviticus 13:33)

"As for the leper who has the infection, his clothes shall be torn, and the hair of his head shall be uncovered, and he shall cover his mustache and cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!'" (Leviticus 13:45)

"This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. Now he shall be brought to the priest," (Leviticus 14:2)

"It will be on the seventh day that he shall shave off all his hair: he shall shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair. He shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in water and be clean." (Leviticus 14:9)

"When a garment has a mark of leprosy in it, whether it is a wool garment or a linen garment," (Leviticus 13:47)

"When you enter the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a mark of leprosy on a house in the land of your possession," (Leviticus 14:34)

"When a woman has a discharge, if her discharge in her body is blood, she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening." (Leviticus 15:19)

"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: 'When a woman gives birth and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean for seven days, as in the days of her menstruation she shall be unclean." (Leviticus 12:2)

"Now if a woman has a discharge of her blood many days, not at the period of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond that period, all the days of her impure discharge she shall continue as though in her menstrual impurity; she is unclean." (Leviticus 15:25)

"This, moreover, shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: it is his uncleanness whether his body allows its discharge to flow or whether his body obstructs its discharge." (Leviticus 15:3)

"Also if one of the animals dies which you have for food, the one who touches its carcass becomes unclean until evening." (Leviticus 11:39)

"Now these are to you the unclean among the swarming things which swarm on the earth: the mole, and the mouse, and the great lizard in its kinds," (Leviticus 11:29)

"Now if a man has a seminal emission, he shall bathe all his body in water and be unclean until evening." (Leviticus 15:16)

"Any of the food which may be eaten, on which water comes, shall become unclean, and any liquid which may be drunk in every vessel shall become unclean." (Leviticus 11:34)

"Now if a man has a seminal emission, he shall bathe all his body in water and be unclean until evening." (Leviticus 15:16)

"If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished." (Exodus 21:28)

"If a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed bare and lets his animal loose so that it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard." (Exodus 22:5)

"If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it," (Exodus 21:33)

"If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or the standing grain or the field itself is consumed, he who started the fire shall surely make restitution." (Exodus 22:6)

"You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another." (Leviticus 19:11)

"If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep." (Exodus 22:1)

"You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt." (Leviticus 19:36)

"You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity." (Leviticus 19:35)

"You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small." (Deuteronomy 25:13)

"You shall not move your neighbor's boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess." (Deuteronomy 19:14)

"You shall not steal." (Exodus 20:15)

"You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning." (Leviticus 19:13)

"You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning." (Leviticus 19:13)

"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor." (Exodus 20:17)

"You shall not commit adultery." (Deuteronomy 5:18)

"or anything about which he swore falsely; he shall make restitution for it in full and add to it one-fifth more. He shall give it to the one to whom it belongs on the day he presents his guilt offering." (Leviticus 6:5)

"Thus you shall do with his donkey, and you shall do the same with his garment, and you shall do likewise with anything lost by your countryman, which he has lost and you have found. You are not allowed to neglect them." (Deuteronomy 22:3)

"You shall not see your countryman's ox or his sheep straying away, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly bring them back to your countryman." (Deuteronomy 22:1)

"If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but remains in bed," (Exodus 21:18)

"You shall not murder." (Exodus 20:13)

"Moreover, you shall not take ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death." (Numbers 35:31)

"The congregation shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he fled; and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil." (Numbers 35:25)

"You shall not take ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to live in the land before the death of the priest." (Numbers 35:32)

"The cities shall be to you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands before the congregation for trial." (Numbers 35:12)

"then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity." (Deuteronomy 25:12)

"The cities shall be to you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands before the congregation for trial." (Numbers 35:12)

"You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people, and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor; I am the LORD." (Leviticus 19:16)

"You shall prepare the roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land which the LORD your God will give you as a possession, so that any manslayer may flee there." (Deuteronomy 19:3)

"and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley." (Deuteronomy 21:4)

"and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley." (Deuteronomy 21:4)

"When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it." (Deuteronomy 22:8)

"When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it." (Deuteronomy 22:8)

"You shall not curse a deaf man, nor place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall revere your God; I am the LORD." (Leviticus 19:14)

"If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely release it with him." (Exodus 23:5)

"You shall not see your countryman's donkey or his ox fallen down on the way, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly help him to raise them up." (Deuteronomy 22:4)

"You shall not see your countryman's donkey or his ox fallen down on the way, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly help him to raise them up." (Deuteronomy 22:4)

"If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend's hand, you shall not wrong one another." (Leviticus 25:14)

"If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend's hand, you shall not wrong one another." (Leviticus 25:14)

"So you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God." (Leviticus 25:17)

"You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." (Exodus 22:21)

"You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." (Exodus 22:21)

"If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment." (Exodus 21:2)

"For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale." (Leviticus 25:42)

"You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God." (Leviticus 25:43)

"Like a man hired year by year he shall be with him; he shall not rule over him with severity in your sight." (Leviticus 25:53)

"If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave's service." (Leviticus 25:39)

"You shall furnish him liberally from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your wine vat; you shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you." (Deuteronomy 15:14)

"When you set him free, you shall not send him away empty-handed." (Deuteronomy 15:13)

"If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his unfairness to her." (Exodus 21:8)

"If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his unfairness to her." (Exodus 21:8)

"If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his unfairness to her." (Exodus 21:8)

"You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another." (Leviticus 25:46)

"He shall live with you in your midst, in the place which he shall choose in one of your towns where it pleases him; you shall not mistreat him." (Deuteronomy 23:16)

"He shall live with you in your midst, in the place which he shall choose in one of your towns where it pleases him; you shall not mistreat him." (Deuteronomy 23:16)

"If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep for him, and it dies or is hurt or is driven away while no one is looking," (Exodus 22:10)

"You shall give him his wages on his day before the sun sets, for he is poor and sets his heart on it; so that he will not cry against you to the LORD and it become sin in you." (Deuteronomy 24:15)

"You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning." (Leviticus 19:13)

"When you enter your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor's standing grain." (Deuteronomy 23:25)

"When you enter your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor's standing grain." (Deuteronomy 23:25)

"When you enter your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor's standing grain." (Deuteronomy 23:25)

"You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing." (Deuteronomy 25:4)

"If a man borrows anything from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while its owner is not with it, he shall make full restitution." (Exodus 22:14)

"If a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep for him and it is stolen from the man's house, if the thief is caught, he shall pay double." (Exodus 22:7)

"If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest." (Exodus 22:25)

"If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest." (Exodus 22:25)

"From a foreigner you may exact it, but your hand shall release whatever of yours is with your brother." (Deuteronomy 15:3)

"When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge." (Deuteronomy 24:10)

"When the sun goes down you shall surely return the pledge to him, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and it will be righteousness for you before the LORD your God." (Deuteronomy 24:13)

"If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge." (Deuteronomy 24:12)

"You shall not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan, nor take a widow's garment in pledge." (Deuteronomy 24:17)

"No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge." (Deuteronomy 24:6)

"You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for gain." (Leviticus 25:37)

"You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you are about to enter to possess." (Deuteronomy 23:20)

"If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest." (Exodus 22:25)

"When you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it would be sin in you, and the LORD your God will surely require it of you." (Deuteronomy 23:21)

"For every breach of trust, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any lost thing about which one says, 'This is it,' the case of both parties shall come before the judges; he whom the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor." (Exodus 22:9-12)

"Further, you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If a man dies and has no son, then you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter." (Numbers 27:8)

"You shall appoint for yourself judges and officers in all your towns which the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment." (Deuteronomy 16:18)

"You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'" (Deuteronomy 1:17)

"You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice;" (Exodus 23:2)

"You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice;" (Exodus 23:2)

"You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice;" (Exodus 23:2)

"then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor's wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you." (Deuteronomy 22:24)

"If there is a man who marries a woman and her mother, it is immorality; both he and they shall be burned with fire, so that there will be no immorality in your midst." (Leviticus 20:14)

"If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished." (Exodus 21:20)

"If there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife, one who commits adultery with his friend's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death." (Leviticus 20:10)

"If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree," (Deuteronomy 21:22)

"his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance." (Deuteronomy 21:23)

"his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance." (Deuteronomy 21:23)

"You shall not allow a sorceress to live." (Exodus 22:18)

"He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes." (Deuteronomy 25:3)

"He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes." (Deuteronomy 25:3)

"Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty." (Exodus 23:7)

"But you shall do nothing to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case." (Deuteronomy 22:26)

"You shall not pity him, but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you." (Deuteronomy 19:13)

"You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly." (Leviticus 19:15)

"You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly." (Leviticus 19:15)

"You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute." (Exodus 23:6)

"You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly." (Leviticus 19:15)

"You shall not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan, nor take a widow's garment in pledge." (Deuteronomy 24:17)

"You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly." (Leviticus 19:15)

"You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'" (Deuteronomy 1:17)

"You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just." (Exodus 23:8)

"You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness." (Exodus 23:1)

"You shall not curse God, nor curse a ruler of your people." (Exodus 22:28)

"You shall not curse God, nor curse a ruler of your people." (Exodus 22:28)

"You shall not curse a deaf man, nor place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall revere your God; I am the LORD." (Leviticus 19:14)

"Now if a person sins after he hears a public adjuration to testify when he is a witness, whether he has seen or otherwise known, if he does not tell it, then he will bear his guilt." (Leviticus 5:1)

"you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its cattle with the edge of the sword." (Deuteronomy 13:15)

"If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death at the evidence of witnesses, but no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness." (Numbers 35:30)

"A single witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin which he has committed; on the evidence of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed." (Deuteronomy 19:15)

"You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness." (Exodus 23:1)

"Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin." (Deuteronomy 24:16)

"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor." (Exodus 20:16)

"then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you." (Deuteronomy 19:19)

"According to the terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the verdict which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left." (Deuteronomy 17:11)

"According to the terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the verdict which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left." (Deuteronomy 17:11)

"He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death." (Exodus 21:17)

"Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it." (Deuteronomy 12:32)

Do not increase the number or expand the scope of any of G-d's commandments.

"Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it." (Deuteronomy 12:32)

Do not decrease the number or diminish the significance of any of G-d's commandments. 

"He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death." (Exodus 21:15)

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you." (Exodus 20:12)

"Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am the LORD your God." (Leviticus 19:3)

"If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them," (Deuteronomy 21:18)

"But Aaron spoke to Moses, 'Behold, this very day they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD. When things like these happened to me, if I had eaten a sin offering today, would it have been good in the sight of the LORD?" (Leviticus 10:19)

"nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;" (Leviticus 21:11)

"nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;" (Leviticus 21:11)

"hen the LORD said to Moses, 'Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: 'No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his people," (Leviticus 21:1)

"you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses, one from among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman." (Deuteronomy 17:15)

"you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses, one from among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman." (Deuteronomy 17:15)

"He shall not multiply wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself." (Deuteronomy 17:17)

"Moreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the LORD has said to you, 'You shall never again return that way.'" (Deuteronomy 17:16)

"He shall not multiply wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself." (Deuteronomy 17:17)

"But you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the LORD your God has commanded you," (Deuteronomy 20:17)

"Only in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes." (Deuteronomy 20:16)

"Therefore it shall come about when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget." (Deuteronomy 25:19)

"Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt," (Deuteronomy 25:17)

"Therefore it shall come about when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget." (Deuteronomy 25:19)

"Moreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the LORD has said to you, 'You shall never again return that way.'" (Deuteronomy 17:16)

"You shall not detest an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not detest an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land." (Deuteronomy 23:7)

"When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace." (Deuteronomy 20:10)

"When you besiege a city a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you?" (Deuteronomy 20:19)

"and you shall have a spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn to cover up your excrement." (Deuteronomy 23:13)

"Since the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy; and He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you." (Deuteronomy 23:14)

"When you are approaching the battle, the priest shall come near and speak to the people." (Deuteronomy 20:2)

"When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken." (Deuteronomy 24:5)

"When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken." (Deuteronomy 24:5)

"He shall say to them, 'Hear, O Israel, you are approaching the battle against your enemies today. Do not be fainthearted. Do not be afraid, or panic, or tremble before them," (Deuteronomy 20:3)

"and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her and would take her as a wife for yourself," (Deuteronomy 21:11)

"It shall be, if you are not pleased with her, then you shall let her go wherever she wishes; but you shall certainly not sell her for money, you shall not mistreat her, because you have humbled her." (Deuteronomy 21:14)

"It shall be, if you are not pleased with her, then you shall let her go wherever she wishes; but you shall certainly not sell her for money, you shall not mistreat her, because you have humbled her." (Deuteronomy 21:14)