Commandments

The 613 commandments

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

Commandments in this list

Showing 241–264 of 613 commandments · page 11 of 26.

  1. Positive commandment Leviticus 14:9

    Commandment 241: The leper shall shave all his hair on the seventh day of purification

  2. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 24:8

    Commandment 242: Not to remove the signs of tzaraat from the skin

  3. Negative commandment Leviticus 13:46

    Commandment 243: Not to cultivate a field that has been declared impure due to tzaraat

  4. Positive commandment Leviticus 11:2

    Commandment 244: To distinguish between clean and unclean animals for consumption

  5. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 14:11

    Commandment 245: To examine the signs in birds to determine which are permitted for consumption

  6. Positive commandment Leviticus 11:21

    Commandment 246: To examine the signs in locusts to determine which species are permitted

  7. Positive commandment Leviticus 11:9

    Commandment 247: To examine the signs in fish to determine which are permitted

  8. Negative commandment Leviticus 11:4

    Commandment 248: Not to eat the flesh of any unclean beast that does not have both split hooves and chew its cud

  9. Negative commandment Leviticus 11:11

    Commandment 249: Not to eat any fish that lacks fins and scales

  10. Negative commandment Leviticus 11:13

    Commandment 250: Not to eat any unclean bird

  11. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 14:19

    Commandment 251: Not to eat any creeping winged insect

  12. Negative commandment Leviticus 11:41

    Commandment 252: Not to eat any creature that swarms upon the earth

  13. Negative commandment Leviticus 11:44

    Commandment 253: Not to eat any creature that creeps upon the ground

  14. Negative commandment Leviticus 11:42

    Commandment 254: Not to eat any worms or larvae found in fruit or produce

  15. Negative commandment Leviticus 11:43

    Commandment 255: Not to eat any aquatic creature that lacks fins and scales

  16. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 14:21

    Commandment 256: Not to eat the flesh of an animal that died of natural causes (neveilah)

  17. Negative commandment Exodus 22:30

    Commandment 257: Not to eat the flesh of an animal torn by a wild beast (tereifah)

  18. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 12:23

    Commandment 258: Not to eat any limb torn from a living animal

  19. Negative commandment Genesis 32:33

    Commandment 259: Not to eat the sciatic nerve (gid hanasheh)

  20. Negative commandment Leviticus 7:26

    Commandment 260: Not to eat blood of any animal or bird

  21. Positive commandment Leviticus 17:13

    Commandment 261: To cover the blood of a slaughtered wild animal or bird with earth

  22. Negative commandment Leviticus 7:23

    Commandment 262: Not to eat certain fats (chelev) of clean animals

  23. Negative commandment Exodus 23:19

    Commandment 263: Not to cook a kid in its mother's milk

  24. Negative commandment Exodus 34:26

    Commandment 264: Not to eat meat cooked in milk