Commandments

The 613 commandments

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

Commandments in this list

Showing 457–480 of 613 commandments · page 20 of 26.

  1. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 23:16

    Commandment 457: Not to return an escaped slave to his master who has fled to the land of Israel

  2. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 23:17

    Commandment 458: Not to wrong or oppress an escaped slave who has come to the land of Israel

  3. Negative commandment Exodus 22:20

    Commandment 459: Not to wrong a stranger in speech

  4. Negative commandment Exodus 22:20

    Commandment 460: Not to wrong a stranger in financial matters

  5. Positive commandment Exodus 21:2

    Commandment 461: To allow a Hebrew bondman to go free after six years of service

  6. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 15:13

    Commandment 462: Not to send a Hebrew bondman away empty-handed upon his release

  7. Negative commandment Leviticus 25:39

    Commandment 463: Not to compel a Hebrew bondman to do demeaning slave labor

  8. Negative commandment Leviticus 25:42

    Commandment 464: Not to sell a Hebrew bondman by public auction

  9. Negative commandment Leviticus 25:43

    Commandment 465: Not to work a Hebrew bondman oppressively or ruthlessly

  10. Negative commandment Leviticus 25:53

    Commandment 466: Not to allow a heathen to oppress a Hebrew bondman

  11. Positive commandment Leviticus 25:46

    Commandment 467: A Canaanite bondman shall serve permanently unless freed by specific conditions

  12. Positive commandment Exodus 21:8

    Commandment 468: A Hebrew bondwoman betrothed to her master or his son shall follow the prescribed laws

  13. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 24:1

    Commandment 469: To marry according to Torah law through betrothal and marriage

  14. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 23:18

    Commandment 470: Not to have sexual relations without the formal bond of marriage

  15. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 24:5

    Commandment 471: A bridegroom shall rejoice with his wife for one year and be exempt from military service

  16. Positive commandment Genesis 17:12

    Commandment 472: To circumcise every male child on the eighth day

  17. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 25:5

    Commandment 473: A man shall marry his deceased brother's childless widow (levirate marriage / yibum)

  18. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 25:9

    Commandment 474: If levirate marriage is refused, to perform the ceremony of chalitzah (removing the shoe)

  19. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 22:29

    Commandment 475: The man who violates a virgin shall marry her and may never divorce her

  20. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 22:29

    Commandment 476: The man who violates a virgin may never divorce her

  21. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 22:19

    Commandment 477: The man who defames his bride must remain married to her and may never divorce her

  22. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 22:19

    Commandment 478: The man who defames his bride may never divorce her

  23. Positive commandment Exodus 22:15

    Commandment 479: A seducer must marry the woman he seduced if her father consents

  24. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 24:1

    Commandment 480: Divorce is executed by the husband giving a written bill of divorce (get)