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 31 commandments — Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
131
The court must fine one who sexually seduces a maiden
EXO 22:16 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and lies with her, he must pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #61
464
The court must judge the damages incurred by an animal eating
EXO 22:5 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"If a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed bare and lets his animal loose so that it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #55
465
The court must judge the damages incurred by a pit
EXO 21:33 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #53
466
The court must judge the damages incurred by fire
EXO 22:6 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or the standing grain or the field itself is consumed, he who started the fire shall surely make restitution.
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #56
468
The court must implement punitive measures against a thief
EXO 22:1 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #54
469
Each individual must ensure that his scales and weights are accurate
LEV 19:36 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
'You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
Parashah: Kedoshim · Sefer HaChinuch: #259
481
The court must implement laws against the one who assaults another or damages another's property
EXO 21:18 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but remains in bed,
Parashah: Mishpatim
484
The court must send the accidental murderer to a city of refuge
NUM 35:25 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
'The congregation shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he fled; and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
Parashah: Masei · Sefer HaChinuch: #410
487
Save someone from being killed by a blood avenger even by taking the life of the pursuer
DEU 25:12 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.
Parashah: Ki Tetze
490
Designate cities of refuge and prepare routes of access
DEU 19:3 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"You shall prepare the roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land which the LORD your God will give you as a possession, so that any manslayer may flee there.
Parashah: Shoftim · Sefer HaChinuch: #520
491
Break the neck of a calf by the river valley following an unsolved murder
DEU 21:4 ✅ Positive ⚔ 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: #530
494
Make a guard rail around flat roofs
DEU 22:8 ✅ Positive ⚔ 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: #546
517
The courts must carry out the laws of a hired worker and hired guard
EXO 22:10 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep for him, and it dies or is hurt or is driven away while no one is looking,
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #59
524
The courts must carry out the laws of a borrower
EXO 22:14 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"If a man borrows anything from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while its owner is not with it, he shall make full restitution.
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #60
525
The courts must carry out the laws of an unpaid guard
EXO 22:7 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"If a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep for him and it is stolen from the man's house, if the thief is caught, he shall pay double.
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #57
538
The courts must carry out the laws of the plaintiff, admitter, or denier
EXO 22:9 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"For every breach of trust, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any lost thing about which one says, 'This is it,' the case of both parties shall come before the judges; he whom the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #58
539
Carry out the laws of the order of inheritance
NUM 27:8 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"Further, you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If a man dies and has no son, then you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter.
Parashah: Pinchas · Sefer HaChinuch: #400
540
Appoint judges
DEU 16:18 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"You shall appoint for yourself judges and officers in all your towns which the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Parashah: Shoftim · Sefer HaChinuch: #491
542
Decide by majority in case of disagreement
EXO 23:2 ✅ Positive ⚔ 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: #76
545
The courts must carry out the death penalty of stoning
DEU 22:24 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor's wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
Parashah: Ki Tetze · Sefer HaChinuch: #555
546
The courts must carry out the death penalty of burning
LEV 20:14 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
If there is a man who marries a woman and her mother, it is immorality; both he and they shall be burned with fire, so that there will be no immorality in your midst.
Parashah: Kedoshim · Sefer HaChinuch: #261
547
The courts must carry out the death penalty of decapitation with the sword
EXO 21:20 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished.
Parashah: Mishpatim · Sefer HaChinuch: #50
548
The courts must carry out the death penalty of strangulation
LEV 20:10 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
If there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife, one who commits adultery with his friend's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Parashah: Kedoshim
549
The courts must hang those stoned for blasphemy or idolatry
DEU 21:22 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
"If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
Parashah: Ki Tetze
550
Bury the executed on the day they are killed
DEU 21:23 ✅ Positive ⚔ 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: #536
553
The court must give lashes to the wrongdoer
DEU 25:3 ✅ Positive ⚔ 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
563
Judge righteously
LEV 19:15 ✅ Positive ⚔ 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: #235
570
Anybody who knows evidence must testify in court
LEV 5:1 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
Now if a person sins after he hears a public adjuration to testify when he is a witness, whether he has seen or otherwise known, if he does not tell it, then he will bear his guilt.
Parashah: Vayikra · Sefer HaChinuch: #122
571
Carefully interrogate the witness
DEU 13:15 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its cattle with the edge of the sword.
Parashah: Re'eh · Sefer HaChinuch: #463
577
Punish the false witnesses as they tried to punish the defendant
DEU 19:19 ✅ Positive ⚔ Courts, Crimes, and Punishments
then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
Parashah: Shoftim · Sefer HaChinuch: #524
578
Act according to the ruling of the Sanhedrin
DEU 17:11 ✅ Positive ⚔ 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: #495

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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.
Can I filter by category?
Yes. Use the category pills at the top to filter commandments by any of the 30 categories. You can also filter by polarity (positive/negative) to see only commands or only prohibitions.
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.