Commandments

Requires the Temple

Commandments the catalog records as requiring a standing Temple to perform. A descriptive filter — inoperative is not the same as abolished.

Commandments in this list

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  1. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 23:11

    Commandment 213: A ritually impure person shall not enter the camp of the Levites (the Temple mount)

  2. Positive commandment Exodus 20:22

    Commandment 214: To construct the altar in its prescribed form

  3. Negative commandment Exodus 20:22

    Commandment 215: Not to build the altar with hewn stones

  4. Negative commandment Exodus 20:23

    Commandment 216: Not to ascend the altar by steps but by a ramp

  5. Positive commandment Exodus 28:2

    Commandment 218: The priests shall wear their designated vestments during service

  6. Negative commandment Exodus 28:43

    Commandment 219: The priests shall not remove the sacred vestments outside the Temple

  7. Positive commandment Numbers 19:2

    Commandment 220: To prepare the red heifer (parah adumah) for purification

  8. Positive commandment Numbers 19:19

    Commandment 221: Those defiled by a corpse must be purified with the ashes of the red heifer

  9. Positive commandment Leviticus 15:3

    Commandment 228: A man with a bodily discharge (zav) shall observe the prescribed impurity laws

  10. Positive commandment Leviticus 15:16

    Commandment 229: A man who has a seminal emission shall immerse and be impure until evening

  11. Positive commandment Leviticus 15:25

    Commandment 231: A woman with an irregular discharge (zavah) shall observe the prescribed impurity laws

  12. Positive commandment Leviticus 12:2

    Commandment 232: A woman after childbirth shall observe the prescribed impurity laws

  13. Positive commandment Leviticus 11:34

    Commandment 236: To observe the impurity laws regarding food and drink that contact impure things

  14. Positive commandment Numbers 19:14

    Commandment 237: To treat the corpse of a human being as ritually defiling

  15. Positive commandment Numbers 19:13

    Commandment 238: To observe the purification ritual involving the waters of lustration (mei niddah)

  16. Positive commandment Leviticus 14:2

    Commandment 240: The leper shall be purified through the prescribed ritual involving two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop

  17. Positive commandment Leviticus 14:9

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

  18. Negative commandment Leviticus 13:46

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

  19. Positive commandment Leviticus 11:47

    Commandment 278: To eat food in a state of ritual purity when required

  20. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 14:22

    Commandment 281: To set apart the second tithe (maaser sheni) and eat it in Jerusalem

  21. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 26:13

    Commandment 284: To recite the declaration when bringing the tithes to the sanctuary

  22. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 26:5

    Commandment 285: To recite the declaration over the first fruits brought to the Temple

  23. Positive commandment Exodus 23:19

    Commandment 302: To bring the first fruits (bikkurim) of the seven species to the Temple

  24. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 12:17

    Commandment 305: Not to eat the second tithe of grain outside Jerusalem