Commandments

The 613 commandments

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

Commandments in this list

Showing 385–408 of 613 commandments · page 17 of 26.

  1. Positive commandment Exodus 21:28

    Commandment 385: To judge cases involving damage caused by a goring ox

  2. Positive commandment Exodus 21:32

    Commandment 386: To judge the case of injury caused by an animal to a person

  3. Positive commandment Exodus 22:15-16

    Commandment 387: To adjudicate cases involving a seducer of an unbetrothed virgin

  4. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 22:28-29

    Commandment 388: To adjudicate the case of a man who violates an unbetrothed virgin

  5. Positive commandment Numbers 5:12-31

    Commandment 389: To adjudicate cases involving a woman suspected of infidelity (sotah) through the prescribed ritual

  6. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 22:24

    Commandment 390: To execute capital punishment by stoning when prescribed

  7. Positive commandment Leviticus 20:14

    Commandment 391: To execute capital punishment by burning when prescribed

  8. Positive commandment Exodus 21:20

    Commandment 392: To execute capital punishment by the sword (beheading) when prescribed

  9. Positive commandment Leviticus 20:10

    Commandment 393: To execute capital punishment by strangulation when prescribed

  10. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 21:22

    Commandment 394: To hang the body of one executed for blasphemy or idolatry

  11. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 21:23

    Commandment 395: To bury the executed person on the same day and not leave the body overnight

  12. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 21:23

    Commandment 396: Not to leave the body of an executed person hanging overnight

  13. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 19:3

    Commandment 397: To designate six cities of refuge for those who kill unintentionally

  14. Negative commandment Numbers 35:31

    Commandment 398: Not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of a capital crime

  15. Negative commandment Numbers 35:32

    Commandment 399: Not to accept a ransom to exempt an accidental killer from exile to a city of refuge

  16. Negative commandment Exodus 23:7

    Commandment 400: Not to put an innocent person to death on the basis of circumstantial evidence

  17. Negative commandment Exodus 20:13

    Commandment 401: Not to commit murder

  18. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 22:8

    Commandment 402: Not to allow dangerous conditions to exist on one's property

  19. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 22:8

    Commandment 403: To build a parapet (safety fence) around the roof of one's house

  20. Negative commandment Leviticus 19:14

    Commandment 404: Not to place a stumbling block before the blind (or mislead the unaware)

  21. Negative commandment Leviticus 19:16

    Commandment 405: Not to stand idly by while another's life is in danger

  22. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 25:2

    Commandment 406: To administer lashes to those convicted of certain transgressions

  23. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 25:3

    Commandment 407: Not to administer more lashes than the prescribed number (forty minus one)

  24. Negative commandment Exodus 20:16

    Commandment 408: Not to bear false witness