Why Judaism Has 613 Commandments

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50. Not to erect a column in a public place of worship: Deuteronomy 16:22

51. Not to bow down on smooth stone: Leviticus 26:1

52. Not to plant a tree in the Temple courtyard: Deuteronomy 16:21

53. To destroy idols and their accessories: Deuteronomy 12:2

54. Not to derive benefit from idols and their accessories: Deuteronomy 7:26

55. Not to derive benefit from ornaments of idols: Deuteronomy 7:25

56. Not to make a covenant with idolaters: Deuteronomy 7:2


57. Not to show favor to them: Deuteronomy 7:2

58. Not to let them dwell in our land: Exodus 23:33

59. Not to imitate them in customs and clothing: Leviticus 20:23

60. Not to be superstitious: Leviticus 19:26

61. Not to go into a trance to foresee events, etc.: Deuteronomy 18:10

62. Not to engage in astrology: Leviticus 19:26

63. Not to mutter incantations: Deuteronomy 18:11

64. Not to attempt to engage the dead in conversation: Deuteronomy 18:11

65. Not to consult the Ov: Deuteronomy 18:11

66. Not to consult the Yidoni: Deuteronomy 18:11

67. Not to perform acts of magic: Deuteronomy 18:10

68. Men must not shave the hair off the sides of their head: Leviticus 19:27

69. Men must not shave their beards with a razor: Leviticus 19:27

70. Men must not wear women's clothing: Deuteronomy 22:5

71. Women must not wear men's clothing: Deuteronomy 22:5

72. Not to tattoo the skin: Leviticus 19:28

73. Not to tear the skin in mourning: Deuteronomy 14:1

74. Not to make a bald spot in mourning: Deuteronomy 14:1

75. To repent and confess wrongdoings: Numbers 5:7

76. To say the Shema twice daily: Deuteronomy 6:7

77. To serve the Almighty with prayer daily: Exodus 23:25

78. The Kohanim must bless the Jewish nation daily: Numbers 6:23

79. To wear Tefillin on the head: Deuteronomy 6:8

80. To bind tefillin on the arm: Deuteronomy 6:8

81. To put a Mezuzah on each door post: Deuteronomy 6:9

82. To write a Sefer Torah: Deuteronomy 31:19

83. The king must have a separate Sefer Torah for himself: Deuteronomy 17:18

84. To have Tzitzit on four-cornered garments: Numbers 15:38

85. To bless the Almighty after eating: Deuteronomy 8:10

86. To circumcise all males on the eighth day after their birth: Leviticus 12:3

87. To rest on the seventh day: Exodus 23:12

88. Not to do prohibited labor on the seventh day: Exodus 20:10

89. The court must not inflict punishment on Shabbat: Exodus 35:3

90. Not to walk more than 2000 cubits outside the city boundary on Shabbat: Exodus 16:29

91. To sanctify the day with Kiddush and Havdalah: Exodus 20:8

92. To rest from prohibited labor on Yom Kippur: Leviticus 23:32

93. Not to do prohibited labor on Yom Kippur: Leviticus 23:31

94. To afflict yourself on Yom Kippur: Leviticus 16:29

95. Not to eat or drink on Yom Kippur: Leviticus 23:29

96. To rest on the first day of Passover: Leviticus 23:8

97. Not to do prohibited labor on the first day of Passover: Leviticus 23:8

98. To rest on the seventh day of Passover: Leviticus 23:8

99. Not to do prohibited labor on the seventh day of Passover: Leviticus 23:8

100. To rest on Shavuot: Leviticus 23:21

101. Not to do prohibited labor on Shavuot: Leviticus 23:21

102. To rest on Rosh Hashanah: Leviticus 23:24

103. Not to do prohibited labor on Rosh Hashanah: Leviticus 23:25

104. To rest on Sukkot: Leviticus 23:35

105. Not to do prohibited labor on Sukkot: Leviticus 23:35

106. To rest on Shemini Atzeret: Leviticus 23:36

107. Not to do prohibited labor on Shemini Atzeret: Leviticus 23:36

108. Not to eat Chametz on the afternoon of the 14th day of Nissan: Deuteronomy 16:3

109. To destroy all Chametz on 14th day of Nissan: Exodus 12:15

110. Not to eat Chametz all seven days of Passover: Exodus 13:3

111. Not to eat mixtures containing Chametz all seven days of Passover: Exodus 12:20

112. Chametz should not be seen in your domain seven days: Exodus 13:7

113. Chametz should not be found in your domain seven days: Exodus 12:19

114. To eat Matzah on the first night of Passover: Exodus 12:18

115. To relate the Exodus from Egypt on that night: Exodus 13:8

116. To hear the Shofar on the first day of Tishrei (Rosh Hashanah): Numbers 29:1

117. To dwell in a Sukkah for the seven days of Sukkot: Leviticus 23:42

118. To take up a Lulav and Etrog all seven days of Sukkot: Leviticus 23:40

119. Each man must give a half shekel annually: Exodus 30:13

120. Courts must calculate to determine when a new month begins: Exodus 12:2

121. To afflict and cry out before God in times of catastrophe: Numbers 10:9

122. To marry a wife by the means prescribed in the Torah (kiddushin): Deuteronomy 24:1

123. Not to have relations with women not thus married: Deuteronomy 23:18

124. Not to withhold food, clothing, and sexual relations from your wife: Exodus 21:10

125. To have children with one's wife: Genesis 1:28

126. To issue a divorce by means of a Get document: Deuteronomy 24:1

127. A man must not remarry his wife after she has married someone else: Deuteronomy 24:4

128. To do Yibum (marry childless brother's widow): Deuteronomy 25:5

129. To do Chalitzah (freeing a widow from yibum): Deuteronomy 25:9

130. The widow must not remarry until the ties with her brother-in-law are removed: Deuteronomy 25:5

131. The court must fine one who seduces a maiden: Exodus 22:15-16

132. The rapist must marry the maiden (if she chooses): Deuteronomy 22:29

133. He is not allowed to divorce her: Deuteronomy 22:29

134. The slanderer must remain married to the wife he slandered: Deuteronomy 22:19

135. He must not divorce her: Deuteronomy 22:19

136. To fulfill the laws of the woman suspected of adultery (Sotah): Numbers 5:30

137. Not to put oil on her meal offering: Numbers 5:15

138. Not to put frankincense on her Meal Offering: Numbers 5:15

139. Not to have sexual relations with your mother: Leviticus 18:7

140. Not to have sexual relations with your father's wife: Leviticus 18:8

141. Not to have sexual relations with your sister: Leviticus 18:9

142. Not to have sexual relations with your father's wife's daughter (from your father): Leviticus 18:11

143. Not to have sexual relations with your son's daughter: Leviticus 18:10

144. Not to have sexual relations with your daughter: Leviticus 18:10

145. Not to have sexual relations with your daughter's daughter: Leviticus 18:10

146. Not to marry a woman and her daughter: Leviticus 18:17

147. Not to marry a woman and her son's daughter: Leviticus 18:17

148. Not to marry a with a woman and her daughter's daughter: Leviticus 18:17

149. Not to have sexual relations with your father's sister: Leviticus 18:12

150. Not to have sexual relations with your mother's sister: Leviticus 18:13

151. Not to have sexual relations with your father's brother's wife: Leviticus 18:14

152. Not to have sexual relations with your son's wife: Leviticus 18:15

153. Not to have sexual relations with your brother's wife: Leviticus 18:16

154. Not to have sexual relations with your wife's sister: Leviticus 18:18

155. A man must not have sexual relations with a beast: Leviticus 18:23

156. A woman must not have sexual relations with a beast: Leviticus 18:23

157. Not to have homosexual sexual relations: Leviticus 18:22

158. Not to have homosexual sexual relations with your father: Leviticus 18:7

159. Not to have homosexual sexual relations with your father's brother: Leviticus 18:14

160. Not to have sexual relations with a married woman: Leviticus 18:20

161. Not to have sexual relations with a menstrually impure woman: Leviticus 18:19

162. Not to marry non-Jews: Deuteronomy 7:3

163. Not to let Moabite and Ammonite males marry into the Jewish people: Deuteronomy 23:4

164. Don't keep a third generation Egyptian convert from marrying into the Jewish

people: Deuteronomy 23:8-9

165. Not to refrain from marrying a third generation Edomite convert: Deuteronomy 23:8-9

166. Not to let a Mamzer ("bastard") marry into the Jewish people: Deuteronomy 23:3

167. Not to let a eunuch marry into the Jewish people: Deuteronomy 23:2

168. Not to castrate any male (including animals): Leviticus 22:24

169. The High Priest (kohen) must not marry a widow: Leviticus 21:14

170. The High Priest must not have sexual relations with a widow even outside of marriage: Leviticus 21:14

171. The High Priest must marry a virgin maiden: Leviticus 21:13

172. A Kohen must not marry a divorcee: Leviticus 21:7

173. A Kohen must not marry a zonah (a woman who had forbidden relations): Leviticus 21:7

174. A Kohen must not marry a chalalah (party to or product of 169-172): Leviticus 21:7

175. Not to make pleasurable (sexual) contact with any forbidden woman: Leviticus 18:6

176. To examine the signs of animals to distinguish between Kosher and non-kosher: Leviticus 11:2

177. To examine the signs of fowl to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher: Deuteronomy 14:11

178. To examine the signs of fish to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher: Leviticus 11:9

179. To examine the signs of locusts to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher: Leviticus 11:21

180. Not to eat non-kosher animals: Leviticus 11:4

181. Not to eat non-kosher fowl: Leviticus 11:13

182. Not to eat non-kosher fish: Leviticus 11:11

183. Not to eat non-kosher flying insects: Deuteronomy 14:19

184. Not to eat non-kosher creatures that crawl on land: Leviticus 11:41

185. Not to eat non-kosher maggots: Leviticus 11:44

186. Not to eat worms found in fruit once they have left the fruit: Leviticus 11:42

187. Not to eat creatures that live in water other than fish: Leviticus 11:43

188. Not to eat the meat of an animal that died without ritual slaughter: Deuteronomy 14:21

189. Not to benefit from an beast condemned to be stoned: Exodus 21:28

190. Not to eat meat of an animal that was mortally wounded: Exodus 22:30

191. Not to eat a limb torn off a living creature: Deuteronomy 12:23

192. Not to eat blood: Leviticus 3:17

193. Not to eat certain fats of kosher animals: Leviticus 3:17

194. Not to eat the sinew of the thigh: Genesis. 32:33

195. Not to eat meat and milk cooked together: Exodus 23:19

196. Not to cook meat and milk together: Exodus 34:26

197. Not to eat bread from new grain before the Omer: Leviticus 23:14

198. Not to eat parched grains from new grain before the Omer: Leviticus 23:14

199. Not to eat ripened grains from new grain before the Omer: Leviticus 23:14
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