Commandments

The 613 commandments

The whole Law in Maimonidean number order — each cited and shown as a primary source.

Commandments in this list

Showing 217–240 of 613 commandments · page 10 of 26.

  1. Positive commandment Leviticus 21:8

    Commandment 217: To honor and show respect to the priests

  2. Positive commandment Exodus 28:2

    Commandment 218: The priests shall wear their designated vestments during service

  3. Negative commandment Exodus 28:43

    Commandment 219: The priests shall not remove the sacred vestments outside the Temple

  4. Positive commandment Numbers 19:2

    Commandment 220: To prepare the red heifer (parah adumah) for purification

  5. Positive commandment Numbers 19:19

    Commandment 221: Those defiled by a corpse must be purified with the ashes of the red heifer

  6. Positive commandment Leviticus 15:16

    Commandment 222: One who becomes ritually impure must immerse in a mikveh

  7. Positive commandment Leviticus 13:3

    Commandment 223: A person afflicted with tzaraat (leprosy) shall follow the prescribed purification ritual

  8. Negative commandment Leviticus 13:33

    Commandment 224: Not to shave or cut the hair of the tzaraat affliction

  9. Positive commandment Leviticus 13:45

    Commandment 225: The person with tzaraat shall make himself known by wearing torn clothes and calling out 'unclean'

  10. Positive commandment Leviticus 13:47

    Commandment 226: To follow the prescribed purification ritual for garments affected by tzaraat

  11. Positive commandment Leviticus 14:35

    Commandment 227: To follow the prescribed purification ritual for houses affected by tzaraat

  12. Positive commandment Leviticus 15:3

    Commandment 228: A man with a bodily discharge (zav) shall observe the prescribed impurity laws

  13. Positive commandment Leviticus 15:16

    Commandment 229: A man who has a seminal emission shall immerse and be impure until evening

  14. Positive commandment Leviticus 15:19

    Commandment 230: A menstruating woman (niddah) is ritually impure and shall follow the prescribed laws

  15. Positive commandment Leviticus 15:25

    Commandment 231: A woman with an irregular discharge (zavah) shall observe the prescribed impurity laws

  16. Positive commandment Leviticus 12:2

    Commandment 232: A woman after childbirth shall observe the prescribed impurity laws

  17. Positive commandment Leviticus 11:33

    Commandment 233: Any object or vessel that becomes ritually impure shall be treated according to prescribed laws

  18. Positive commandment Leviticus 11:39

    Commandment 234: To observe the impurity laws regarding carcasses of animals

  19. Positive commandment Leviticus 11:29

    Commandment 235: To observe the impurity laws regarding the eight species of creeping things (sheratzim)

  20. Positive commandment Leviticus 11:34

    Commandment 236: To observe the impurity laws regarding food and drink that contact impure things

  21. Positive commandment Numbers 19:14

    Commandment 237: To treat the corpse of a human being as ritually defiling

  22. Positive commandment Numbers 19:13

    Commandment 238: To observe the purification ritual involving the waters of lustration (mei niddah)

  23. Positive commandment Leviticus 15:16

    Commandment 239: To immerse in a mikveh to become ritually pure

  24. Positive commandment Leviticus 14:2

    Commandment 240: The leper shall be purified through the prescribed ritual involving two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop