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Positive commandments

A commandment to do something — a duty the Torah requires.

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  1. Positive commandment Genesis 17:12

    To circumcise every male child on the eighth day

  2. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 25:5

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

  3. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 25:9

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

  4. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 22:29

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

  5. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 22:19

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

  6. Positive commandment Exodus 22:15

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

  7. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 24:1

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

  8. Positive commandment Numbers 5:15

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

  9. Positive commandment Leviticus 21:13

    The High Priest shall marry only a virgin

  10. Positive commandment Leviticus 21:2-3

    A regular priest shall defile himself for his seven closest deceased relatives

  11. Positive commandment Numbers 18:23

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

  12. Positive commandment Leviticus 21:11

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

  13. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 12:2

    To destroy idols and their appurtenances completely

  14. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 13:17

    To burn an apostate city (ir hanidachat) that has entirely turned to idolatry

  15. Positive commandment Exodus 20:12

    To honor one's father and mother

  16. Positive commandment Leviticus 19:3

    To revere one's father and mother

  17. Positive commandment Genesis 1:28

    To be fruitful and multiply

  18. Positive commandment Leviticus 19:32

    To respect the elderly and rise before the aged

  19. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 18:15

    To inquire of and obey a true prophet

  20. Positive commandment Numbers 5:2

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

  21. Positive commandment Leviticus 21:2-3

    A priest shall defile himself for his seven closest relatives upon their death

  22. Positive commandment Leviticus 10:19

    To mourn for close relatives according to the prescribed laws

  23. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 18:3

    To give the shoulder, cheeks, and stomach of slaughtered animals to the priest

  24. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 18:4

    To give the first shearing of the flock to the priest