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.
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Commandment 217: To honor and show respect to the priests
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Commandment 218: The priests shall wear their designated vestments during service
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Commandment 219: The priests shall not remove the sacred vestments outside the Temple
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Commandment 220: To prepare the red heifer (parah adumah) for purification
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Commandment 221: Those defiled by a corpse must be purified with the ashes of the red heifer
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Commandment 222: One who becomes ritually impure must immerse in a mikveh
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Commandment 223: A person afflicted with tzaraat (leprosy) shall follow the prescribed purification ritual
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Commandment 224: Not to shave or cut the hair of the tzaraat affliction
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Commandment 225: The person with tzaraat shall make himself known by wearing torn clothes and calling out 'unclean'
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Commandment 226: To follow the prescribed purification ritual for garments affected by tzaraat
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Commandment 227: To follow the prescribed purification ritual for houses affected by tzaraat
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Commandment 228: A man with a bodily discharge (zav) shall observe the prescribed impurity laws
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Commandment 229: A man who has a seminal emission shall immerse and be impure until evening
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Commandment 230: A menstruating woman (niddah) is ritually impure and shall follow the prescribed laws
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Commandment 231: A woman with an irregular discharge (zavah) shall observe the prescribed impurity laws
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Commandment 232: A woman after childbirth shall observe the prescribed impurity laws
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Commandment 233: Any object or vessel that becomes ritually impure shall be treated according to prescribed laws
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Commandment 234: To observe the impurity laws regarding carcasses of animals
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Commandment 235: To observe the impurity laws regarding the eight species of creeping things (sheratzim)
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Commandment 236: To observe the impurity laws regarding food and drink that contact impure things
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Commandment 237: To treat the corpse of a human being as ritually defiling
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Commandment 238: To observe the purification ritual involving the waters of lustration (mei niddah)
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Commandment 239: To immerse in a mikveh to become ritually pure
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Commandment 240: The leper shall be purified through the prescribed ritual involving two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop