Aaron spoke to Moses, “Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh; and such things as these have happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in Yahweh’s sight?”
To mourn for close relatives according to the prescribed laws
The cited verse
The Hebrew (Masoretic Text)
וְאָכַלְתִּי חַטָּאת הַיּוֹם הַיִּיטַב בְּעֵינֵי יְהוָה
Literary form: a command embedded in narrative
Applicability
How the catalog describes where and when this commandment applies. These are independent descriptions, not a verdict on which laws still count.
- Recorded as practiced today
Classical halakhic consequences
The consequences the classical halakhah attaches to this commandment, grouped by who imposes them. Where a category has none recorded, that absence is itself meaningful.
Imposed by a court
No court-imposed penalty is recorded.
At the hands of Heaven
No divinely-imposed consequence is recorded.
Ritual remedy
No ritual remedy is recorded.
How the streams of Judaism treat this commandment
The streams of Judaism read the same commandment differently — an ongoing plurality, not a ranking. Each position below is reported as the catalog records it; none is presented as the correct one.
- Orthodox Binding
- Conservative Binding
- Reform Binding, with modification
- Reconstructionist Binding, with modification
- Karaite Rejected
24 of 613 commandments have been examined in depth so far — this one is queued.
How later traditions received this commandment
How later traditions read or reworked this commandment, each attributed to its own voice. The catalog’s own classification of each reception is shown as it records it, never adopted as GEBible’s.
Rabbinic aggadah
- Genesis Rabbah 100 (on Jacob's mourning, Gen 50) expanded it homiletically Aggadic expansion on the patriarchal mourning narratives that later tradition associated with mourning practice; cited generally rather than to a specific verified derivation of avelut law.
Josephus
- Against Apion 2.205 carried a parallel Describes Jewish burial and funeral customs as legally regulated, emphasizing restraint in funeral expenditure.
The New Testament
- John 11:31-44 carried a parallel Mourning at Lazarus's tomb plausibly reflects contemporaneous Jewish mourning practice including communal consolation visits, though the connection to mourning halakhah is inferential.
Beside the older legal codes of its world
The commandment set beside the ancient Near-Eastern legal collections scholars compare it to — a descriptive comparison, not a claim of dependence.
- ugaritic texts El's mourning for Baal involves self-laceration, tearing garments, rolling in dust, and cutting with a razor — the very practices that biblical mourning legislation (Lev 19:28; Deut 14:1) prohibits, suggesting the Israelite mourning framework is shaped partly in contrast to Canaanite funerary rites Relationship to the parallel: polemical contrast Baal Cycle KTU 1.5 VI – 1.6 I Smith and Pitard, The Ugaritic Baal Cycle, vol. 2 (Brill, 2009)
Where this commandment meets modern human-rights frameworks
One modern normative lens, attributed to it — not GEBible’s assessment. Each row names the framework it measures against and the catalog’s own classification of the relation.
This framework catalogues tensions; it records agreement in only one of its entries. The near-total tension rate is the shape of the instrument, not a finding.
No tension with the catalogued modern frameworks is recorded here.