Commandments

Practiced today

Commandments the catalog records as observable today — after the loss of the Temple and the Sanhedrin. A descriptive filter, not the only question that matters.

Commandments in this list

Showing 97–120 of 315 commandments · page 5 of 14.

  1. Negative commandment Leviticus 11:43

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

  2. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 14:21

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

  3. Negative commandment Exodus 22:30

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

  4. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 12:23

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

  5. Negative commandment Genesis 32:33

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

  6. Negative commandment Leviticus 7:26

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

  7. Positive commandment Leviticus 17:13

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

  8. Negative commandment Leviticus 7:23

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

  9. Negative commandment Exodus 23:19

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

  10. Negative commandment Exodus 34:26

    Commandment 264: Not to eat meat cooked in milk

  11. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 12:21

    Commandment 266: To slaughter animals and birds according to the prescribed method (shechitah)

  12. Negative commandment Leviticus 22:28

    Commandment 267: Not to slaughter an animal and its offspring on the same day

  13. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 22:7

    Commandment 268: To send away the mother bird before taking the young or the eggs

  14. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 22:6

    Commandment 269: Not to take the mother bird together with her young

  15. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 32:38

    Commandment 270: Not to eat or drink anything offered in idolatrous worship

  16. Negative commandment Leviticus 23:14

    Commandment 271: Not to eat bread made from new grain before the omer offering

  17. Negative commandment Leviticus 23:14

    Commandment 272: Not to eat roasted grain from new produce before the omer

  18. Negative commandment Leviticus 23:14

    Commandment 273: Not to eat fresh ears of new grain before the omer

  19. Negative commandment Leviticus 19:23

    Commandment 274: Not to eat the fruit of a tree during its first three years (orlah)

  20. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 22:9

    Commandment 275: Not to eat diverse seeds planted in a vineyard (kilei hakerem)

  21. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 32:38

    Commandment 276: Not to eat or drink wine used in idolatrous libation

  22. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 21:20

    Commandment 277: Not to be a glutton or drunkard

  23. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 18:4

    Commandment 279: To set apart terumah (the priest's portion) from one's produce

  24. Positive commandment Leviticus 27:30

    Commandment 280: To set apart the first tithe (maaser rishon) for the Levites