Commandments

The 613 commandments

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

Commandments in this list

Showing 433–456 of 613 commandments · page 19 of 26.

  1. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 20:17

    Commandment 433: To destroy the seven nations of Canaan when making war on them

  2. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 20:16

    Commandment 434: Not to let any of the seven Canaanite nations survive

  3. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 25:19

    Commandment 435: To blot out the memory of Amalek

  4. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 25:17

    Commandment 436: To remember what Amalek did to Israel

  5. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 25:19

    Commandment 437: Not to forget what Amalek did to Israel

  6. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 20:10

    Commandment 438: To offer terms of peace before besieging a city in an optional war

  7. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 20:16

    Commandment 439: Not to offer terms of peace to the seven Canaanite nations

  8. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 20:19

    Commandment 440: Not to destroy fruit-bearing trees during a siege

  9. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 23:13

    Commandment 441: To set aside a place outside the military camp for sanitary needs

  10. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 23:14

    Commandment 442: To keep a paddle or spade among one's weapons for covering waste

  11. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 20:2

    Commandment 443: A priest anointed for war shall address the troops before battle

  12. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 20:5-7

    Commandment 444: Those newly married, who have planted a vineyard, or built a house are exempt from war in the first year

  13. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 20:3

    Commandment 445: Not to panic or retreat in battle from before the enemy

  14. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 21:11

    Commandment 446: To follow the laws concerning a beautiful captive woman in war

  15. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 21:14

    Commandment 447: Not to sell a beautiful captive woman

  16. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 21:14

    Commandment 448: Not to enslave a beautiful captive woman after having relations with her

  17. Negative commandment Exodus 23:32

    Commandment 449: Not to make a covenant with the seven Canaanite nations

  18. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 7:2

    Commandment 450: Not to show favor or mercy to idolaters

  19. Negative commandment Exodus 23:33

    Commandment 451: Not to allow idolaters to dwell in the land of Israel

  20. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 7:3

    Commandment 452: Not to intermarry with members of the seven Canaanite nations

  21. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 23:4

    Commandment 453: A male Ammonite or Moabite shall not marry into the congregation of Israel

  22. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 23:7

    Commandment 454: Not to make peace with the nations of Ammon and Moab

  23. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 23:8

    Commandment 455: Not to reject a descendant of Esau who seeks to convert (after the third generation)

  24. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 23:8

    Commandment 456: Not to reject an Egyptian who seeks to convert (after the third generation)