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 26:14

    Commandment 308: Not to eat the second tithe while in a state of mourning

  2. Positive commandment Leviticus 5:24-25

    Commandment 368: One who swears falsely must pay the principal plus a fifth and bring a guilt offering

  3. Positive commandment Numbers 5:12-31

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

  4. Positive commandment Numbers 5:15

    Commandment 483: To deal with a suspected adulteress (sotah) according to the prescribed law

  5. Negative commandment Numbers 5:15

    Commandment 484: Not to put oil on the sotah offering

  6. Negative commandment Numbers 5:15

    Commandment 485: Not to put frankincense on the sotah offering

  7. Positive commandment Leviticus 21:13

    Commandment 516: The High Priest shall marry only a virgin

  8. Negative commandment Leviticus 21:14

    Commandment 517: The High Priest shall not marry a widow

  9. Negative commandment Leviticus 21:15

    Commandment 520: The High Priest shall not have sexual relations with a widow even without marriage

  10. Negative commandment Leviticus 21:11

    Commandment 524: The High Priest shall not enter a place where there is a dead body

  11. Negative commandment Leviticus 21:11

    Commandment 525: The High Priest shall not become ritually impure from any corpse, even close relatives

  12. Positive commandment Numbers 18:23

    Commandment 528: The Levites shall serve in the Tabernacle and Temple from age twenty-five to fifty

  13. Negative commandment Numbers 18:3

    Commandment 529: A Levite shall not serve in the capacity of another Levite's assigned duty

  14. Positive commandment Leviticus 21:11

    Commandment 530: The High Priest shall not defile himself for the dead except in the prescribed manner

  15. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 16:21

    Commandment 555: Not to plant a tree in the Temple courtyard (ashera)

  16. Positive commandment Numbers 5:2

    Commandment 587: To send the ritually impure out of the camp according to their degree of impurity

  17. Negative commandment Leviticus 21:12

    Commandment 589: The High Priest shall not leave the sanctuary during the Temple service

  18. Negative commandment Exodus 12:9

    Commandment 591: Not to eat the flesh of the Passover offering raw or boiled in water

  19. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 12:17

    Commandment 605: Not to eat the flesh of a firstborn animal outside Jerusalem

  20. Positive commandment Leviticus 10:14

    Commandment 606: The priests shall eat the breast and thigh of the peace offering

  21. Negative commandment Leviticus 7:20

    Commandment 607: A ritually impure person shall not eat from any sacred offering

  22. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 16:16

    Commandment 610: Not to appear before God empty-handed on the three pilgrim festivals

  23. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 23:22

    Commandment 611: Not to delay the fulfillment of vows or voluntary offerings beyond three festivals

  24. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 31:12

    Commandment 612: All Israel shall gather together on the Sabbath of the sabbatical year for the public reading of the Torah