002

P002

To acknowledge the Unity of God

Acknowledge the Oneness of Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: Yahweh our God, Yahweh is One.

 

 

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004

P004

To fear God

Revere Yahweh

Deuteronomy 6:13 Fear Yahweh your God, serve Him only and take your oaths in His name.

 

 

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006

P006

To cleave to God

Cleave to Yahweh

Deuteronomy 10:20 Fear Yahweh your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.

 

 

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008

P007

On taking an oath by Gods' Name

Take your oaths only in the name of Yahweh

Deuteronomy 10:20 Fear Yahweh your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.

 

 

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010

P095

None

A vow can only be annuled according to Torah.

Numbers 30:5-15 But if her father forbids her when he hears about it, none of her bows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand; Yahweh will release her because her father has forbidden her. 6 If she marries after she makes a vow or after her lips utter a rash promise by which she obligates herself . . .

 

 

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012

N061

None

Do not violate an oath taken by the Holy Name of Yahweh.

Leviticus 19:12 And you shall not swear by My name falsely, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh. NKJ James 5:12 But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. But let your "Yes," be "Yes," and your "No," "No," lest you fall into judgment.

 

 

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014

P019

On praising God after eating, grace after meals

Praise Yahweh after eating

Deuteronomy 8:10 When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise Yahweh your God for the good land He has given you.

 

 

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016

P021

On respecting the Sanctuary.

We are to respect and protect the temple Yahweh builds within us. We are not to participate in any act that would defile the temple He builds.

Leviticus 19:20 You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am Yahweh. Ephesians 2:19-22 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Yeshua Ha Mashiach himself being the chief corner stone, 21 in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in Yahweh, 22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

 

 

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018

P172

On heeding the Prophets

Heed the Words of Yeshua.

Deuteronomy 18:15 Yahweh your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me (Moses) from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear.

 

 

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020

P109

On immersing in a mikveh to become ritually clean.

Repent and be baptized

Leviticus 15:27 And whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. Mark 16:16 , Acts 2:38 , 1 Corinthians 12:13, Hebrews 6:1-2

 

 

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022

N004

Not to make figures of human beings.

Do not make figures of human beings for the purpose of worship.

NIV Exodus 20:4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

 

 

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024

N058

NONE

Do not fear your enemy but trust in Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 7:21 You shall not be terrified of them; for Yahweh your God, the great and awesome God, is among you.

 

 

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026

N060

Not blaspheming the Holy name of God

Do not blaspheme the name of Yahweh

Leviticus 24:16 And whoever blasphemes the name of Yahweh shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him, the stranger as well as him who is born in the land. When he blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he shall be put to death. (Removal from the congregation of believers)

 

 

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028

N063

Not profaning the Holy Name of God

Do not profane (to debase by wrong, unworthy, or vulgar use) the Name of Yahweh

Leviticus 22:32 You shall not profane My Holy Name, but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

 

 

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030

P080

On Redeeming the First-born of man, Pidyon ha-ben

The First-born males belong to Yahweh (EVALUATE FURTHER)

Exodus 22:29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

 

 

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030

P008

On walking in God's ways

Walk in obedience to the ways of YAHWEH

Deuteronomy 28:9 YAHWEH will establish you as His holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of YAHWEH your God and walk in His ways.

032

P011

On studying and teaching Torah

Study and teach others the Torah

Deuteronomy 6:7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Matt. 4:4 But he (Yeshua) answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

AP

034

P013

On binding Tefillin on the head

See P012

Deuteronomy 6:8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

SA

036

P015

On affixing a Mezuzah to doorposts and gates

Mezuzahs are a good witness to others about your obedience to the Torah of YAHWEH, but is not necessary in the physical.

Deuteronomy 6:9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

SA

038

P018

On that everyone should have a Torah scroll

Everyone is to write down a copy of the Song of Moses and teach it to their children.

Deuteronomy 31:19 Now therefore, write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel.

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040

P174

Obey the Oral & Written Torah God has provided.

Obey the written Torah YAHWEH has provided.

Deuteronomy 17:11 Act according to the law they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left.

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042

N312

See P174

Deuteronomy 17:11 Act according to the law they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left.

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044

N314

Not to detract from the commandments of Torah

Do not try to delete anything from the commandments

Deuteronomy 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

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046

P052

On the three annual Festival pilgrimages to the Temple

Celebrate all the appointed times.

Exodus 23:14-17 Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me. 15 Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt. No one is to appear before me empty-handed. 16 Celebrate the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. Celebrate the feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field. 17 Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign YAHWEH.

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048

P054

On rejoicing on the Festivals

Rejoice on the Festivals

Deuteronomy 16:14 Be joyful at your Feast - you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levites, the aliens, the fatherless, and the widows who live in your towns.

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050

P056

On eating the roasted Pesach lamb night of Nisan

Eat the Pesach lamb on the night of the 14th of Aviv

Exodus 12:8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.

052

P059

Trumpets for Feast sacrifices brought & for tribulation

Sound the Trumpets at the appointed times.

Numbers 10:10 Also at your times of rejoicing - your appointed feasts and New Moon festivals - you are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, and they will be a memorial for you before your God. I am YAHWEH your God.

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054

P137

Blow Shofar on Yom Kippur in the Jubilee & slaves freed

Blow Shofar of Jubilee on Yom Kippur, on the 10th day of the 7th month

Leviticus 25:9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound through out all your land.

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056

P154

On resting on the Shabbat

Rest on the Shabbat.

Exodus 23:12 Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the slave born in your household, and the alien as well, may be refreshed.

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058

P156

On removal of chametz, leaven(ed), on (Nisan 15), Pesach

Remove all chametz, leaven, from your house on Aviv 15, Erev Pesach

Exodus 12:15 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

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060

P158

On eating Matzah the first night of Pesach, (Nisan 15)

Eat Matzah with your meal on the first night of Pesach, Aviv 15

Exodus 12:18 In the first month you are to eat bread bade without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

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062

P160

On resting on the seventh day of Pesach

Rest on the seventh day of Pesach, do no work and hold a sacred assembly.

Exodus 12:16 On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat - that is all you may do.

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064

P162

On resting on Shavout

Rest on Shavout (Pentecost)

Leviticus 23:21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

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066

P164

On fasting on Yom Kippur

Fast on Yom Kippur

Leviticus 16:29 And this shall be a statute forever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth amount you.

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068

P166

On resting on the first day of Sukkot

Rest on the first day of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles), do no work.

Leviticus 23:35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

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070

P168

On dwelling in a Sukkah (booth) for seven days

Dwell in a Sukkah (booth) for the seven days of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)

Leviticus 23:42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths.

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072

P170

On hearing the sound of the Shofar on Rosh HaShannah

Sound the Trumpets on Rosh HaShannah

Numbers 29:1 On the first day of the seventh month hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. It is a day for you to sound the trumpets.

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074

N116

Leave not sacrificial portions of Pesach lamb overnight

See N117

Exodus 12:10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it.

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076

N118

No meat of Nisan 14 Festive Offering remain till day 3

See N117

Deuteronomy 16:4 Let not yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until morning.

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078

N121

Not to break any bones of Pesach lamb offering.

Do not break any bones of the lamb for the Passover offering.

Exodus 12:46 It must be eaten inside one house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.

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080

N123

Not to remove Pesach offering from where it is eaten

Do not remove Passover lamb from the house it is to be eaten in.

Exodus 12:46 It must be eaten inside one house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.

082

N126

Not to allow an alien resident to eat Pesach offering

Do not allow a non-believer in Y'Shua & His Torah (One who has not acknowledged or is not actively seeking to know YAHWEH's requirements) to eat the Passover offering.

Exodus 12:45, 48 But a temporary resident and a hired worker may not eat of it. 48 An alien living among you who wants to celebrate YAHWEH's Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat of it.

084

N128

Not to allow an apostate to eat the Pesach offering.

Do not allow someone who has renounced faith in Y'Shua and His Torah to eat the Passover lamb.

Exodus 12:43 YAHWEH said to Moses and Aaron, "These are the regulations for the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it."

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086

N196

Not to eat anything on Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement

See P164

Leviticus 23:29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

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087

088

N198

Not to eat an admixture of chametz / leaven(ed) on Pesach

See P156

Exodus 13:7 Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders.

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090

N200

No chametz may be seen in our homes during Pesach

No leaven may be in our homes during Feast of Unleavened Bread

Exodus 13:7 Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders.

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092

N320

Not to work on Shabbat

See P154

Exodus 20:10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to YAHWEH your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.

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094

N322

Not to inflict punishment on the Shabbat

Do not start a Fire on the Sabbath day.

Exodus 35:3 Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.

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096

N324

Not to work on the seventh day of Pesach

See P160

Exodus 12:16 On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat - that is all you may do.

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098

N326

Not to work on Rosh HaShannah

See P163

Leviticus 23:25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto YAHWEH.

AP

100

N328

Work not 8th-day / Shemini-Atzeret, (after Hoshana Rabba)

See P167

Leviticus 23:36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto YAHWEH: on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto YAHWEH: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work there.

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102

P209

On honoring the old (and wise)

Show respect for the elderly

Leviticus 19:32 Rise in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am YAHVEH.

AP

104

P211

On fearing parents

Respect your parents. See N319.

Leviticus 19:3 Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am YAHVEH your God.

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106

P213

On the law of marriage and divorce.

A divorce requires a written certificate.

Deuteronomy 24:1 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her (i.e. adultery), and he writes her a certificate of divorce, give it to her and sends her from his house. Matthew 5:32 but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the cause of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

108

P216

If a man dies childless, his brother marry widow, or . . .

A brother is to marry his sister-in-law if his brother dies, if they were living together prior to the brother's death. See N357.

Deuteronomy 25:5 If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband's brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.

110

P219

The defamer of his bride is flogged & may never divorce.

When a husband falsely accuses his bride of not being a virgin upon marriage, he is to be flogged. See N359.

Deuteronomy 22:18-19 And the elders shall take the man and punish him. 19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels of sliver and give them to the girl's father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

112

N311

Take not bridegroom from home in first year of marriage.

See P214.

Deuteronomy 24:5 If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.

114

N319

Not to strike parents.

Do not attack or strike your parents.

Exodus 21:15 Anyone who attacks his father or his mother must be put to death.

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116

N357

Childless widow marry none except late husband's brother.

See P216.

Deuteronomy 25:5 If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband's brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.

118

P031

On removing unclean persons from the camp.

You shall not allow diseased and infectious persons to contaminate the entire congregation.

Numbers 5:2 Command the Israelite to send away from the camp anyone who has an infectious skin disease or a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body.

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120

P112

On that the leper must be made easily distinguishable.

One who is sick is to make sure others know he is sick so they don’t contaminate themselves.  (Social)

Leviticus 13:45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, "Unclean, unclean."

122

P180

False witnesses shall be judged according to the Law.

A false witness shall receive the same punishment that was intended for the accused.

Deuteronomy 19:18-19 And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who has testified falsely against his brother, 19 then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you.

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124

P196

On giving gifts to a Hebrew bondman upon his freedom

Deuteronomy 15:12-14 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. 13 And when you send him away free from you, you shall not let him go away empty-handed; 14 you shall supply him liberally from your flock, from your threshing floor, and from your winepress. From what YAHVEH has blessed you with, you shall give to him.

126

P203

On assisting a man with his beast when it has fallen.

Help your brother to care for his animals when they're fallen.

Deuteronomy 22:4 If you see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help him get it to its feet.

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128

P205

On being required to reprove the sinner.

Reprove a sinner.

Leviticus 19:17 Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt.

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130

P207

On being commanded to love the convert / proselyte

Love those who are converts.

Deuteronomy 10:19 And you are to love those who are aliens, for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt.

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132

P238

See N298

Exodus 21:33-34 And if a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it, 34 the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to their owner, but the dead animal shall be his.

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134

N055

See N54.

Deuteronomy 23:7-8 You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land. 8 The children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of YAHWEH. (Welcome new believers.)

SA

136

N233

Not sending a Hebrew bondman away empty-handed.

See P196

Deuteronomy 15:13 And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.

NA

138

P247

Saving the life of the pursued

Deuteronomy 25:12 Save life of one pursued, even if need - kill oppressor

140

N265

Not coveting another man's possessions / property, etc.

See N266

Exodus 20:17 You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.

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142

N269

See P204.

Deuteronomy 22:1 If you see your brother's ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to him. Exodus 23:4 "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him.

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144

N292

A person will be protected until he comes to trial before the assembly.

Numbers 35:12 They will be places of refuge from the avenger, so that a person accused of murder may not die before he stands trial before the assembly.

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146

N298

Ensure that whatever you do, you take care to ensure the safety of others.

Deuteronomy 22:8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring guilt of bloodshed on your household if anyone falls from it.

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148

N301

Not to tell tales.

Do not gossip, for any reason.

Leviticus 19:16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am YAHVEH.

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150

N303

Not to put one another to shame

Counsel your brother when he sins.

Leviticus 19:17 Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt.

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152

N305

Not to bear a grudge.

Do not avenge yourself nor bear a grudge against your brother.

Leviticus 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am YAHVEH

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154

N354

A mamzer (child of incest) may not have relations with a Jewess.

Deuteronomy 7:1-3, 23:2 1 "When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than yourselves, 2 and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them; then you must utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them. 3 You shall not make marriages with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons. Deuteronomy 23:2 No bastard shall enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD.

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156

P096

Defilement by touching certain animals carcasses

Do not touch the carcasses, of unclean creatures – non-mammals and mammals that are unclean to you.

Leviticus 11:8, 24 You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you. 24 You will make yourselves unclean by these; whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean till evening.

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158

P098

Defilement of food & drink, if contacting unclean thing.

Do not eat or drink anything that has become defiled by anything unclean.

Leviticus 11:34 Any food that could be eaten but has water on it from such a pot is unclean, and any liquid that could be drunk from it is unclean.

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160

P149

Searching for prescribed signs in beasts, for eating

Know the prescribed signs in beasts, for eating (i.e. cloven hoof plus chew cud together)

Leviticus 11:2-3 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, "These are the animals which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth: 3 Among the animals, whatever divides the hoof, having cloven hooves and chewing the cud - that you may eat.

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162

P151

Searching for the Prescribed signs in locusts, for eating.

Know the prescribed signs in locusts, for eating (i.e. having jointed legs above their feet used to hop).

Leviticus 11:21-22 Yet these you may eat of every flying insect that creeps on all fours: those which have jointed legs above their feet with which to leap on the earth. 2 These you may eat: the locust after its kind, the destroying locust after its kind, the cricket after it kind, and the grasshopper after its kind.

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164

N130

Eat not meat of consecrated things that have become tameh, unclean.

See P98.

Leviticus 7:19 And the flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.

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166

N173

Not to eat any fish without fins and scales.

See P152.

Leviticus 11:10-11 But all in the seas or in the rivers that do not have fins and scales, all that move in the water or any living thing which is in the water, they are an abomination to you. 1 They shall be an abomination to you; you shall not eat their flesh, but you shall regard their carcasses as an abomination.

168

N175

Not to eat any creeping winged insect.

Do not eat any, creeping thing, insect that has wings and flies.

Deuteronomy 14:19 Also every creeping thing that flies is unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.

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170

N177

Not to eat creeping things that breeds in decayed matter.

Do not eat, or touch, any insect that breeds in decayed matter, for you are holy.

Leviticus 11:44 For I am YAHVEH your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

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172

N179

Not to eat any living creature that multiplies in swarms or large numbers.

See N176.

Leviticus 11:43 You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thin that creeps; nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, lest you be defiled by them.

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174

N181

Not to eat an animal which is torn or mauled, a treifah

Do not eat any animal that has died by being mauled or torn by another animal.

Exodus 22:31 And you shall be holy men to Me; you shall not eat meat torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

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176

N183

Not to eat the sinew of the thigh-vein, gid ha-nasheh.

Do not eat the sinew or vein of the thigh (a sinew is part of the meat that is generally thrown away as it’s too tough to chew)

Genesis 32:32 Therefore to this day the children of Israel do not eat the muscle that shrank, which is on the hip socket, because He touched the socket of Jacob's hip in the muscle that shrank.

178

N185

Not to eat certain types of fat of clean animal, chelev.

Do not eat animal fat.

Leviticus 7:23 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, "You shall not eat any fat, of ox or sheep or goat. Leviticus 3:17 It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.

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180

N187

See N186.

Exodus 34:26 The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of YAHVEH your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

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182

N195

No eating or drinking to excess, gluttony & drunkenness.

Do not eat or drink to excess, this is gluttony & drunkenness.

Deuteronomy 21:20 And they say to the elders of his city, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard. Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit.

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184

P175

On in case of division, abiding by a majority decision

Exodus 23:2 You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; nor shall you bear witness in a suit, turning aside after a multitude, so as to pervert justice

186

P177

See N273.

Leviticus 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

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188

P179

The testimony of witness shall be examined thoroughly

Leviticus 19:15 You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

190

P224

A judge who orders a beating must have the criminal beaten in his presence; he can receive no more than 40 blows.

Deuteronomy 25:2-3 Then it shall be, if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a certain number of blows. 3 Forty blows he may give him and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with many blows above these, and your brother be humiliated in your sight.

192

P229

A man and woman caught in adultery are to be stoned to death.

Deuteronomy 22:24 Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he humbled his neighbor's wife; so you shall put away the evil from among you.

194

P231

Bury a criminal on the same day as his execution.

Deuteronomy 21:23 His body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which YAHVEH your God is giving you as an inheritance; for he who is hanged is accursed of God.

196

P239

If a man steals . . .

Exodus 22:1-4 If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and slaughters it or sells it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep. 2 If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt (on the owner of the house) for his bloodshed. 3 If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt for his bloodshed. He should make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 4 If the theft is certainly found alive in his hand, whether it is an ox or donkey or sheep, he shall restore double.

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198

P242

Law for someone who is caring for another's things . . .

Exodus 22:7-9 If a man delivers to his neighbor money or articles to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house, if the thief is found, he shall pay double. 8 If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges to see whether he has put his hand into his neighbor's goods. . .

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200

P244

If what you've borrowed comes to harm, you shall make restitution.

Exodus 22:14-15 And if a man borrows anything from his neighbor, and it becomes injured or dies, the owner of it not being with it, he shall surely make it good. 15 If its owner was with it, he shall not make it good; if it was hired, it came for its hire.

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202

N066

Leave not body of executed criminal hanging overnight. See P231.

Deuteronomy 21:23 His body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which YAHVEH your God is giving you as an inheritance; for he who is hanged is accursed of God.

204

N246

Do not alter land markers in order to steal from another.

Deuteronomy 19:14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that YAHWEH your God is giving you to possess.

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206

N273

Judges are not be to be partial towards anyone, for any reason.

Leviticus 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

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208

N275

See N273.

Leviticus 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

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210

N277

See N273.

Leviticus 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

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212

N279

See N273.

Deuteronomy 19:11-13 But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: 12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

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214

N281

Judge not to hear one litigant in absence of the other

Exodus23:1 You shall not utter a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man, to be a malicious witness.

216

N283

A judge is not to follow blindly after the opinions of others.

Exodus 23:2 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice.

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218

N286

A judge is not to receive the testimony of a man proven to be false.

Exodus 23:1 You shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

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220

N288

By the mouth of two or more witnesses a thing is established.

Deuteronomy 19:15 One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established. Numbers 35:30 Whoever kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness is not sufficient testimony against a person for the death penalty.

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222

N290

See N288.

Deuteronomy 19:15 One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established.

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224

N293

Not to pity or spare the life of a pursuer

Deuteronomy 25:12 When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, 12 then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall have no pity.

226

N295

Not accepting ransom from an unwitting murderer.

Numbers 35:31 And you shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.

228

N300

Inflict not more than assigned number lashes to guilty. See P224.

Deuteronomy 25:2-3 Then it shall be, if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a certain number of blows. 3 Forty blows he may give him and no more, le

230

P138

Reversion of the land to ancestral owners in Jubilee year.

All land sold in Israel shall be returned to its original owner in the Sabbatical year.

Leviticus 25:10 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 25:28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

232

P142

. . . One may exact a debt owed by a foreigner.

Of a foreigner, non-believer, you do not have to annul their debt.

Deuteronomy 15:3 Of a foreigner you may require it; but you shall give up your claim to what is owed by your brother.

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234

P197

On lending money to the poor without interest

Lend money to your fellow believer without charging him interest.

Exodus 22:25 If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not be like a moneylender; charge him no interest. Leviticus 25:35-37

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236

P199

On restoring a pledge to its owner if he needs it.

You shall not keep the pledge of your brother, fellow believer, who is poor if he needs it.

Deuteronomy 24:12-13 And if the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight. 13 You shall in any case return the pledge to him again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own garment and bless you; and it shall be righteousness to you before YAHVEH your God.

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238

P201

Employee is allowed to eat the produce he's working in.

Allow your employees to eat of your produce when they're working for you.

Deuteronomy 23:24-25 When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes at your pleasure, but you shall not put any in your container. 25 When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor's standing grain.

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240

P245

On the law of buying and selling

Do not cheat others during business transactions, and pay what you owe.

Leviticus 25:14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbor, or buyest ought of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress (cheat) one another.

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242

N227

Sell not one's Eretz Yisrael land holdings permanently.

Do not sell Israel land permanently.

Leviticus 25:23 The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mind; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me.

244

N230

Not to demand payment of debts after (7th) Shmitah year.

See P141.

Deuteronomy 15:2 And this is the form of the release: Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor or his brother, because it is called YAHVEH's release.

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246

N234

Not demanding payment from a widow or orphan

Do not harm or distress a widow or orphan in any way, especially regarding money.

Exodus 22:22-24 You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. 23 If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry; 24 and My wrath will become hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

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248

N236

Not borrowing from another Jew at interest

See P197.

Deuteronomy 23:20 To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, that YAHVEH your God may bless you in all to which you set your hand in the land which you are entering to possess.

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250

N238

Oppress not an employee by delaying paying his wages

See N245.

Leviticus 19:13 You shall not cheat your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not remain with you all night until morning.

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252

N240

Not keeping a poor man's pledge when he needs it.

See P199.

Deuteronomy 24:12 And if the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight.

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254

N242

Not taking one's business (or food) utensils in pledge.

Do not take what a man needs to make a living as a pledge.

Deuteronomy 24:6 No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge, for he takes one's living in pledge.

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256

N247

Not usurping our debts / do not defraud.

See P245.

Leviticus 19:13 You shall not cheat your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not remain with you all night until morning.

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266

P185

On destroying all idolatry and its appurtenances

Destroy all places where idols are worshipped.

Deuteronomy 12:2; 7:5 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 7-5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

268

N002

Not to make images for the purpose of worship.

Do not make images for the purpose of worship.

Exodus 20:4 You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

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270

N005

Not to bow down to an idol.

Do not bow down to an idol or worship one.

Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, YAHWEH your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me.

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272

N007

Not to hand over any children to Moloch.

Do not hand over your children to be sacrificed or destroyed for any reason.

Leviticus 18:21 And thou shalt not let any of thy see pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God; I am YAHWEH.

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274

N009

Not to practice sorcery of yidde'oni, familiar spirits.

Do not communicate with familiar spirits: the spirit of a dead person invoked by a medium to advise or prophesy or one that serves or prompts an individual.

Leviticus 19:31 Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am YAHWEH your God.

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276

N011

Not to erect a pillar which people assemble to honor.

Do not erect a pillar which people will worship or honor.

Deuteronomy 16:22 You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which YAHWEH your God hates.

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278

N013

Not to plant trees in the Sanctuary / Temple in honor of idols.

Do not plant trees as a wooden image to worship or honor.

Deuteronomy 16:21 You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to YAHWEH your God.

280

N015

Not to divert any non-Jew to idolatry.

See N16.

Deuteronomy 13:6-8 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him.

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282

N017

Not to love someone who seeks to mislead you to idols.

Do not honor someone who would mislead you to idols.

Deuteronomy 13:8-9 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: 9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

284

N019

Not to save the life of a misleader to idols.

See N18.

Deuteronomy 13:6-10 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: 9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

286

N021

Do not oppress evidence unfavorable to the misleader.

See N18.

Deuteronomy 13:6-10 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: 9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

288

N023

Rebuild not a city destroyed as punishment for idolatry.

Do not rebuild a city destroyed as punishment for idolatry. See P186.

Deuteronomy 13:16 And you shall gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and completely burn with fire the city and all its plunder, for YAHWEH your God; and it shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.

290

N025

Do not use anything connected with idols or idolatry.

Do not bring a graven image connected with idols or idolatry into your house.

Deuteronomy 20:4-5 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.

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292

N028

Listen not to one who prophesies in the name of idols

Deuteronomy 13:3-4 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him, and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and cleave to him.

294

N030

Imitate not the ways nor practice customs of idolaters.

See N194.

Leviticus 20:23 And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they commit all these things, and therefore I abhor them.

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296

N032

Not practicing Soothsaying

Do not practice soothsaying: The art or practice of foretelling events.

Deuteronomy 18:10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer.

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298

N034

Not practicing sorcery.

Do not practice sorcery: Use of supernatural power over others through the assistance of spirits; witchcraft.

Deuteronomy 18:10-11 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer. 11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium.

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300

N036

Not consulting a necromancer who uses the ov.

See N8.

Deuteronomy 18:10-11 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer. 11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium.

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302

N038

Not to seek information from the dead, necromancy.

See N8.

Deuteronomy 18:10-11 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer. 11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium.

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304

N040

Men not wearing women's clothes or adornments

Men are not to dress so as to appear as though they were a woman.

Deuteronomy 22:5 A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment, for all who do so are an abomination to YAHWEH your God.

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306

N043

Not shaving the temples / sides of your head

Do not shave any part of your head in order to go along with a cult practice.

Leviticus 19:27 You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard.

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308

N045

Not making cuttings in your flesh over your dead.

Do not cut your flesh in mourning over the dead.

Deuteronomy 14:1 You are the children of YAHWEH your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead.

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310

N051

Do not allow anyone serving false gods to dwell among you.

Exodus 23:33 Do not let them live in your land, or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you.

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312

N171

Not to tear out hair for the dead.

Do not shave your head in mourning for the dead.

Deuteronomy 14:1 You are the children of YAHWEH your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead.

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314

N310

Not permitting a witch / sorcerer to live.

Do not permit a witch / sorcerer to live.

Exodus 22:18 You shall not permit a sorceress to live.

316

P226

On beheading transgressors of certain commandments

Exodus 21:20 When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished.

318

P233

Hebrew bondmaid married to her master or his son, or . . .

Do not treat a bondmaid deceitfully. If you betroth her to your son, you must allow her to be redeemed if you change your mind.

Exodus 21:8-9 If she does not please he master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her. 9 And if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with according to the custom of daughters.

320

P235

On the laws for treating an alien bondman.

You may keep, buy and sell slaves. You may give them as an inheritance for your children.

Leviticus 25:44-46 And so for your male and female slaves whom you may have - from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. 45 Moreover you may buy the children of the strangers who dwell among you, and their families who are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall become your property. 46 And you may take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession; they shall be your permanent slaves. But regarding your brethren, the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one another with rigor.

322

N255

Take no advantage of a slave who's fled to Israel

Do not oppress a slave who has fled his master.

Deuteronomy 23:16 He may dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he chooses within one of your gates, where it seems best to him; you shall not oppress him.

324

N258

Not selling a Hebrew bondman.

Do not sell a fellow believer into slavery.

Leviticus 25:42 For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.

326

N260

Not allowing a heathen to mistreat a Hebrew bondman.

Leviticus 25:46, 53 46 You may bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession for ever; you may make slaves of them, but over your brethren the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness. 53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him; he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

328

N262

. . . Withhold not: food, raiment, or conjugal rights.

 Treat all your wives equally.

Exodus 21:10 If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marriage rights.

330

N264

Not treating a captive woman as a slave.

Do not treat a captive woman as a slave.

Deuteronomy 21:14 And it shall be if you have no delight in her, then you shall set her free, but you certainly shall not sell her for money; you shall not treat her brutally, because you have humbled her.

332

P120

On leaving the corners (Peah) of fields for the poor

Be sure to provide from what YAHWEH gives you to care for the poor.

Leviticus 19:9 When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

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334

P122

On leaving the forgotten sheaf for the poor.

See P120.

Deuteronomy 24:19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be fore the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that YAHWEH your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

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336

P124

On leaving grape gleanings for the poor.

See P120.

Leviticus 19:10 And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am YAHWEH your God.

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338

P135

On resting the land on the Sabbatical year

Allow the land to rest during the Sabbatical. Do not plow or use it.

Exodus 23:11 But during the seventh year, let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

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340

N189

Eat not bread made from grain of new crop, before Omer

Do not eat or use your first fruits until you've made an offering to the Lord.

Leviticus 23:14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, not green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

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342

N191

Eat not green ears of New crop, before Omer (Nisan 16)

See N189

Leviticus 23:14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, not green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

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344

N193

Eat not growth of mixed vineyard planting, kilai hakerem.

Do not eat produce of a vineyard that has been sown with diverse seeds.

Deuteronomy 22:9 You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled.

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346

N211

Not to gather ears of grain that fell during harvesting.

See P120.

Leviticus 19:9 When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

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348

N213

Not to gather single fallen grapes during the vintage.

See P120.

Leviticus 19:10 And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am YAHWEH your God.

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350

N215

Not to sow diverse kinds of seeds in one field, kalayim

Do not sow different kinds of seeds into one field.

Leviticus 19:19 You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind. You shall not sow your field with mixed seed. Nor shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you.

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352

N220

Not to cultivate the soil in the 7th year, shemittah.

Do not cultivate the soil during the Sabbatical year.

Leviticus 25:4 But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to YAHWEH. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.

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354

N222

Reap not self-grown plant in 7th year as ordinary

Do not reap fruit that is grown naturally during the Sabbatical year.

Leviticus 25:5 What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land.

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356

N224

Not to till the earth or prune trees in Jubilee year.

Do not prune your trees or vines, nor reap or gather its produce, during the Jubilee year.

Leviticus 25:11 That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall neither sow or reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine.

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358

N226

Not to gather fruit in Jubilee year as in ordinary year.

See N224.

Leviticus 25:11 That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall neither sow or reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine.

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360

P220

On the seducer must be punished according to the Law

See N358.

Deuteronomy 22:20-27 . . . 23 If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her, 24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he humbled his neighbor's wife; so you shall put away the evil from among you. 25 But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. 26 But you shall do nothing to the young woman; there is in the young woman no sin deserving of death, for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter. 27 For he found her in the countryside, and the betrothed young woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.

362

P228

On burning transgressors of certain commandments

Leviticus 20:14 If a man marries a woman and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among you.

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364

N331

No relations with one's father's wife.

Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife (your step-mother).

Leviticus 18:8 Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father.

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366

N333

No relations with step-sister.

Do not have sexual relations with your step-sister.

Leviticus 18:11 Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

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368

N335

No relations with one's daughter's daughter.

See N334.

Leviticus 18:10 Do not have sexual relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter; that would dishonor you.

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370

N337

No relations with a woman and her daughter.

Do not have sexual relations with a woman and her daughter or her grandchildren.

Leviticus 18:17 Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.

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372

N339

No relations with a woman & her daughter's daughter.

See N337.

Leviticus 18:17 Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.

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374

N341

No relations with one's mother's sister.

See N340.

Leviticus 18:13 Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister; because she is your mother's close relative.

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376

N343

No relations with one's son's wife.

Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law.

Leviticus 18:15 Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; so not have relations with her.

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378

N345

No relations with sister of wife, during wife's life.

See N344.

Leviticus 18:18 Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.

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380

N347

No relations with another man's wife.

Do not commit adultery.

Leviticus 18:20 Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her.

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382

N349

Woman may not lie with beasts

See N348.

Leviticus 18:23 Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.

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384

N351

A man may not lie carnally with his father.

See N350.

Leviticus 18:22 Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.

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386

N353

Not to be intimate with a kinswoman.

Do not have sexual relations with someone of close kin to you.

Leviticus 18:6 None of your shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am YAHVEH.

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388

N358

Divorce not wife, that he has to marry after raping her.

Rapist must marry, and pay the bride's price to the father of, the woman he raped.

Deuteronomy 22:29 He shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

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390

P147

Covering with earth the drained blood of slain fowl and beast

Pour onto the earth the drained blood of slain fowl or beasts and cover it with dirt.

Leviticus 17:13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.

392

P237

On the law of injuries caused by an animal

You are not held responsible if your animal attacks a person, if it is the first offense.

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

394

N101

Not to slaughter an animal & its young on the same day.

Do not slaughter an animal and its young on the same day.

Leviticus 22:28 And whether it be cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and her young both in one day.

396

N218

Work not with two different kinds of animals together.

Do not plow with a strong animal and a weaker one yoked together.

Deuteronomy 22:10 Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

398

N306

Not to take entire bird's nest, mother and her young.

See P148.

Deuteronomy 22:6 If you come across a bird's nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.

400

P093

Nazir completing vow shaves his head & brings sacrifice.

Numbers 6:18 The at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the Nazirite must shave off the hair that he dedicated. He is to take the hair and put it in the fire that is under the sacrifice of the fellowship offering.

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402

N203

A Nazir may not eat fresh grapes.

Numbers 6:3 He must abstain from wine and other fermented drink and must not drink vinegar made from wine or from other fermented drink. He must not drink grape juice or eat grapes or raisins.

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404

N205

A Nazir may not eat grape seeds / kernels.

Numbers 6:4 As long as he is a Nazirite, he must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even the seeds or skins.

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406

N207

Nazir may not rend himself tameh (unclean) for the dead.

 A Nazir may not render himself unclean by touching the dead.

Numbers 6:7 Even if his own father or mother or brother or sister dies, he must not make himself ceremonially unclean on account of them, because of symbol of his separation to God is on his head.

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408

P017

On that a king must write a copy of Torah for himself

Deuteronomy17:18 And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, from that which is in the charge of the Levitical priests;

410

P140

Count and announce the years till the Jubilee year.

Leviticus 25:8 And thou shalt number seven Sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.

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412

P181

On Eglah Arufah, on the heifer when murderer unknown.

Deuteronomy 21:4 The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with flowing water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and they shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.

414

P187

On the law about destroying the Seven Canaanite Nations

Deuteronomy 20:17 but you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD your God has commanded

416

P189

Remember the nefarious deeds of Amalek to Israel

Deuteronomy 25:17 Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt.

418

P192

Make sure that no unclean thing is done or kept in a camp.

Deuteronomy 23:13-14 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee: 14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

420

N046

Do not return to live in Egypt or to multiply wealth from them.

Deuteronomy 17:16 But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for YAHWEH has said to you, "You shall not return that way again."

422

N049

Not to spare the life of the Seven Canaanite Nations

Deuteronomy 20:16 But of the cities of these peoples which YAHVEH your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive.

424

N056

Do not make peace with the nations of Ammon and Moav.

Deuteronomy 23:6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

426

N059

Not forgetting the evil which Amalek did to us (Israel) See P189.

Deuteronomy 25:19 Therefore it shall be, when YAHVEH your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which YAHVEH your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven

428

N362

Do not have a king who isn't chosen by YAHVEH and is not of the seed of Israel.

Deuteronomy 17:15 Be sure to appoint over you the king YAHVEH your God chooses. He must be from among your own brothers. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not a brother Israelite.

430

N364

A king not taking many wives.

Deuteronomy 17:17 He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.