613 Commandments (Mitzvot)

248 positive commandments · 365 negative commandments · 30 categories

613
Total Commandments
248
Positive (Do)
365
Negative (Do Not)
All 613 ✅ Positive ❌ Negative
🔥 Sacrifices and Offerings 96 ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments 70 📅 Appointed Times 41 🚫 Idolatry 40 ⛪ Levites & Priests 35 🍞 Food 35 🌾 Terumah and Tithes 29 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Marriage and Family 27 🔒 Forbidden Sexual Relationships 24 🏛 Temple and Sacred Objects 21 💧 Ritual Purity and Impurity 20 🌱 Shemittah and Yovel 19 🛡 War and Battles 18 🔗 Slaves and Servants 18 ✡ G-d 14 🤲 Providing for the Poor 13 💰 Loans 13 ❤ Love 12 ✂ Nazirites 10 ⚖ Morality 9 🤝 Oaths 8 👑 The King 7 👤 Personal Appearance 7 📜 Torah 6 🔯 Signs and Symbols 5 🙏 Prayer and Confession 4 🧬 Forbidden Mixtures 4 👶 Redemption of the Firstborn 3 📖 Prophecy 3 📊 Business 2 Clear filter
Showing 39 commandments — Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
470
Do not commit injustice with scales and weights
LEV 19:35 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
'You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity.
Parashah: Kedoshim · Sefer HaChinuch: #258
471
Do not possess inaccurate scales and weights even if they are not for use
DEU 25:13 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.
Parashah: Ki Tetze
472
Do not move a boundary marker to steal someone's property
DEU 19:14 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"You shall not move your neighbor's boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.
Parashah: Shoftim · Sefer HaChinuch: #522
473
Do not kidnap
EXO 20:15 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"You shall not steal.
Parashah: Yitro · Sefer HaChinuch: #36
474
Do not rob
LEV 19:13 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning.
Parashah: Kedoshim · Sefer HaChinuch: #229
475
Do not withhold wages or fail to repay a debt
LEV 19:13 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning.
Parashah: Kedoshim · Sefer HaChinuch: #228
476
Do not covet and scheme to acquire another's possession
EXO 20:17 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
Parashah: Yitro · Sefer HaChinuch: #38
482
Do not murder
EXO 20:13 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"You shall not murder.
Parashah: Yitro · Sefer HaChinuch: #34
483
Do not accept monetary restitution to atone for a murderer
NUM 35:31 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
'Moreover, you shall not take ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.
Parashah: Masei · Sefer HaChinuch: #412
485
Do not accept monetary restitution instead of being sent to a city of refuge
NUM 35:32 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
'You shall not take ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to live in the land before the death of the priest.
Parashah: Masei · Sefer HaChinuch: #413
486
Do not kill a murderer before he stands trial
NUM 35:12 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
'The cities shall be to you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands before the congregation for trial.
Parashah: Masei · Sefer HaChinuch: #409
488
Do not pity a person who pursues an individual accused of murder
NUM 35:12 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
'The cities shall be to you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands before the congregation for trial.
Parashah: Masei
492
Do not work nor plant the river valley where an unsolved murder occurred
DEU 21:4 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
Parashah: Shoftim · Sefer HaChinuch: #531
493
Do not allow pitfalls and obstacles to remain on your property
DEU 22:8 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it.
Parashah: Ki Tetze · Sefer HaChinuch: #547
495
Do not put a stumbling block before a blind man
LEV 19:14 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
'You shall not curse a deaf man, nor place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall revere your God; I am the LORD.
Parashah: Kedoshim · Sefer HaChinuch: #232
519
Do not delay payment of wages past the agreed time
LEV 19:13 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning.
Parashah: Kedoshim · Sefer HaChinuch: #230
541
Do not appoint judges who are not familiar with the Law
DEU 1:17 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
'You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'
Parashah: Devarim · Sefer HaChinuch: #414
543
The court must not execute through a majority of one; at least a majority of two is required
EXO 23:2 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice;
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #78
544
A judge who presented an acquittal plea must not present an argument for conviction in capital cases
EXO 23:2 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice;
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #77
551
Do not delay burial overnight
DEU 21:23 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.
Parashah: Ki Tetze · Sefer HaChinuch: #537
552
The court must not let the sorcerer live
EXO 22:18 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #62
554
The court must not exceed the prescribed number of lashes
DEU 25:3 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes.
Parashah: Ki Tetze
555
The court must not kill anybody on circumstantial evidence
EXO 23:7 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #82
556
The court must not punish anybody who was forced to do a crime
DEU 22:26 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"But you shall do nothing to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case.
Parashah: Ki Tetze · Sefer HaChinuch: #556
557
A judge must not pity the murderer or assaulter at the trial
DEU 19:13 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"You shall not pity him, but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you.
Parashah: Shoftim · Sefer HaChinuch: #521
558
A judge must not have mercy on the poor man at the trial
LEV 19:15 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
'You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
Parashah: Kedoshim
559
A judge must not respect the great man at the trial
LEV 19:15 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
'You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
Parashah: Kedoshim · Sefer HaChinuch: #234
560
A judge must not decide unjustly the case of the habitual transgressor
EXO 23:6 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #81
561
A judge must not pervert justice
LEV 19:15 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
'You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
Parashah: Kedoshim · Sefer HaChinuch: #233
564
The judge must not fear a violent man in judgment
DEU 1:17 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
'You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'
Parashah: Devarim · Sefer HaChinuch: #415
565
Judges must not accept bribes
EXO 23:8 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just.
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #83
566
Judges must not accept testimony unless both parties are present
EXO 23:1 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #74
569
Do not curse any upstanding Israelite
LEV 19:14 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
'You shall not curse a deaf man, nor place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall revere your God; I am the LORD.
Parashah: Kedoshim · Sefer HaChinuch: #231
572
A witness must not serve as a judge in capital crimes
NUM 35:30 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
'If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death at the evidence of witnesses, but no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
Parashah: Masei · Sefer HaChinuch: #411
573
Do not accept testimony from a lone witness
DEU 19:15 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"A single witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin which he has committed; on the evidence of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed.
Parashah: Shoftim · Sefer HaChinuch: #523
574
Habitual transgressors must not testify
EXO 23:1 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #75
575
Relatives of the litigants must not testify
DEU 24:16 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.
Parashah: Ki Tetze
576
Do not testify falsely
EXO 20:16 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Parashah: Yitro · Sefer HaChinuch: #37
579
Do not deviate from the word of the Sanhedrin
DEU 17:11 ❌ Negative ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"According to the terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the verdict which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left.
Parashah: Shoftim · Sefer HaChinuch: #496

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What are the 613 commandments?
The 613 commandments (mitzvot) are the complete list of divine instructions found in the Torah — the first five books of the Bible. They were codified by Maimonides in the 12th century and include 248 positive commandments ("do this") and 365 negative ones ("do not do this").
What do the P and N labels mean?
P stands for Positive — a commandment to do something (e.g., "Honor your father and mother"). N stands for Negative — a prohibition (e.g., "You shall not steal"). There are 248 positive and 365 negative commandments.
What are the 30 categories?
Commandments are organized into categories like Sacrifices & Offerings, Courts & Punishments, Appointed Times, Idolatry, Levites & Priests, Food Laws, Marriage & Family, and more. This makes it easy to study related commandments together.
Why are there three scripture languages?
Each commandment shows the original Hebrew text, the Greek Septuagint translation, and an English translation. This allows you to study the commandment in its original language and compare across translations.
What is a Parashah?
A Parashah is the weekly Torah reading portion in Jewish liturgical tradition. Each commandment shows which Parashah it belongs to, connecting it to the synagogue reading cycle.
What is Sefer HaChinuch?
Sefer HaChinuch is a 13th-century work that explains the reasons behind each of the 613 commandments. The number shown here corresponds to that work's ordering system.
Are all commandments still practiced today?
Many commandments relate to the Temple, sacrificial system, or agricultural life in ancient Israel and cannot be practiced today. Others — like ethical and moral commandments — remain universally observed across traditions.
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How do commandments relate to the New Testament?
Jesus summarized the commandments in two great principles: love God and love your neighbor (Matthew 22:37-40). Paul and other apostles discuss the relationship between the Law and grace throughout the Epistles.
Why does the text say "G-d" instead of "God"?
The original data follows Jewish scholarly convention, which avoids writing the full name of God out of reverence. This is a traditional practice in Jewish scholarship and documentation.