Commandments

Negative commandments

A commandment not to do something — a prohibition.

Commandments in this list

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  1. Negative commandment Exodus 20:23

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

  2. Negative commandment Exodus 28:43

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

  3. Negative commandment Leviticus 13:33

    Commandment 224: Not to shave or cut the hair of the tzaraat affliction

  4. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 24:8

    Commandment 242: Not to remove the signs of tzaraat from the skin

  5. Negative commandment Leviticus 13:46

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

  6. Negative commandment Leviticus 11:4

    Commandment 248: Not to eat the flesh of any unclean beast that does not have both split hooves and chew its cud

  7. Negative commandment Leviticus 11:11

    Commandment 249: Not to eat any fish that lacks fins and scales

  8. Negative commandment Leviticus 11:13

    Commandment 250: Not to eat any unclean bird

  9. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 14:19

    Commandment 251: Not to eat any creeping winged insect

  10. Negative commandment Leviticus 11:41

    Commandment 252: Not to eat any creature that swarms upon the earth

  11. Negative commandment Leviticus 11:44

    Commandment 253: Not to eat any creature that creeps upon the ground

  12. Negative commandment Leviticus 11:42

    Commandment 254: Not to eat any worms or larvae found in fruit or produce

  13. Negative commandment Leviticus 11:43

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

  14. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 14:21

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

  15. Negative commandment Exodus 22:30

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

  16. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 12:23

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

  17. Negative commandment Genesis 32:33

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

  18. Negative commandment Leviticus 7:26

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

  19. Negative commandment Leviticus 7:23

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

  20. Negative commandment Exodus 23:19

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

  21. Negative commandment Exodus 34:26

    Commandment 264: Not to eat meat cooked in milk

  22. Negative commandment Exodus 21:28

    Commandment 265: Not to eat the flesh of a stoned ox

  23. Negative commandment Leviticus 22:28

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

  24. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 22:6

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