613 Mitzvot (תרי״ג מצוות)

Welcome to the Mussar Center's Topical List of the 613 Mitzvot/Commandments in the Torah! 

This list is also available as a printable PDF. See also the shorter list of Positive & Negative Mitzvot as numbered by the Rambam/Maimonides, Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon.

God

• To know that God exists (Exodus 20:2; Deuteronomy 5:6)

• Not to entertain the idea that there is any god but Hashem (Exodus 20:3)

• Not to blaspheme (Exodus 22:28), the penalty for which is death (Leviticus 24:16)

• To hallow God's name (Leviticus 22:32)

• Not to profane God's name (Leviticus 22:32)

• To know that God is One, a complete Unity (Deuteronomy 6:4)

• To love God (Deuteronomy 6:5)

• To fear Him reverently (Deuteronomy 6:13; 10:20)

• Not to put the word of God to the test (Deuteronomy 6:16)

• To imitate His good and upright ways (Deuteronomy 28:9)

Torah

• To honor the old and the wise (Leviticus 19:32)

• To learn Torah and to teach it (Deuteronomy 6:7)

• To cleave to those who know Him (Deuteronomy 10:20)

• Not to add to the commandments of the Torah, whether in the Written Law or in its interpretation received by tradition (Deuteronomy 13:1)

• Not to take away from the commandments of the Torah (Deuteronomy 13:1)

• That every person shall write a scroll of the Torah for himself (Deuteronomy 31:19)

Signs and Symbols

• To circumcise the male offspring (Genesis 17:12; Leviticus 12:3)

• To put tzitzit on the corners of clothing (Numbers 15:38)

• To bind tefillin on the head (Deuteronomy 6:8)

• To bind tefillin on the arm (Deuteronomy 6:8)

• To affix the mezuzah to the doorposts and gates of your house (Deuteronomy 6:9)

Prayer and Blessings

• To pray to God (Exodus 23:25; Deuteronomy 6:13)

• To read the Shema in the morning and at night (Deuteronomy 6:7)

• To recite grace after meals (Deuteronomy 8:10)

• Not to lay down a stone for worship (Leviticus 26:1)

Love & Brotherhood/Sisterhood

• To love all human beings who are of the covenant (Leviticus 19:18)

• Not to stand by idly when a human life is in danger (Leviticus 19:16)

• Not to wrong anyone in speech (Leviticus 25:17)

• Not to carry tales (Leviticus 19:16)

• Not to cherish hatred in one's heart (Leviticus 19:17)

• Not to take revenge (Leviticus 19:18)

• Not to bear a grudge (Leviticus 19:18)

• Not to put any person to shame (Leviticus 19:17)

• Not to curse any other Israelite (Leviticus 19:14)

• Not to give occasion to the simple-minded to stumble on the road (Leviticus 19:14)

• To rebuke the sinner (Leviticus 19:17)

• To relieve a neighbor of his burden and help to unload his beast (Exodus 23:5)

• To assist in replacing the load upon a neighbor's beast (Deuteronomy 22:4)

• Not to leave a beast, that has fallen down beneath its burden, unaided (Deuteronomy 22:4)

The Poor

• Not to afflict an orphan or a widow (Exodus 22:21)

• Not to reap the entire field (Leviticus 19:9; Leviticus 23:22)

• To leave the unreaped corner of the field or orchard for the poor (Leviticus 19:9)

• Not to gather gleanings (the ears that have fallen to the ground while reaping) (Leviticus 19:9)

• To leave the gleanings for the poor (Leviticus 19:9)

• Not to gather olelot (the imperfect clusters) of the vineyard (Leviticus 19:10)

• To leave olelot (the imperfect clusters) of the vineyard for the poor (Leviticus 19:10; Deuteronomy 24:21)

• Not to gather the peret (single grapes) that have fallen to the ground (Leviticus 19:10)

• To leave peret (single grapes) of the vineyard for the poor (Leviticus 19:10)

• Not to return to take a forgotten sheaf (Deuteronomy 24:19) This applies to all fruit trees (Deuteronomy 24:20)

• To leave the forgotten sheaves for the poor (Deuteronomy 24:19-20)

• Not to refrain from maintaining a poor man and giving him what he needs (Deuteronomy 15:7)

• To give charity according to one's means (Deuteronomy 15:11)

Gentiles

• To love the stranger (Deuteronomy 10:19)

• Not to wrong the stranger in speech (Exodus 22:20)

• Not to wrong the stranger in buying or selling (Exodus 22:20)

• Not to intermarry with gentiles (Deuteronomy 7:3)

• To exact the debt of an alien (Deuteronomy 15:3)

• To lend to an alien at interest (Deuteronomy 23:21)

Family, Marriage, and Divorce

• To honor father and mother (Exodus 20:12)

• Not to smite a father or a mother (Exodus 21:15)

• Not to curse a father or mother (Exodus 21:17)

• To reverently fear father and mother (Leviticus 19:3)

• To be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28)

• That a eunuch shall not marry a daughter of Israel (Deuteronomy 23:2)

• That a mamzer shall not marry the daughter of a Jew (Deuteronomy 23:3)

• That an Ammonite or Moabite shall never marry the daughter of an Israelite (Deuteronomy 23:4)

• Not to exclude a descendant of Esau from the community of Israel for three generations (Deuteronomy 23:8-9)

• Not to exclude an Egyptian from the community of Israel for three generations (Deuteronomy 23:8-9)

• That there shall be no harlot (in Israel); that is, that there shall be no relations with a woman, without previous marriage with a deed of marriage and formal declaration of marriage (Deuteronomy 23:18)

• To take a wife by kiddushin, the sacrament of marriage (Deuteronomy 24:1)

• That the newly married husband shall be free for one year to rejoice with his wife (Deuteronomy 24:5)

• That a bridegroom shall be exempt for a whole year from taking part in any public labor, such as military service, guarding the wall, and similar duties (Deuteronomy 24:5)

• Not to withhold food, clothing, or conjugal rights from a wife (Exodus 21:10)

• That the woman suspected of adultery shall be dealt with as prescribed in the Torah (Numbers 5:30)

• That one who defames his wife's honor (by falsely accusing her of unchastity before marriage) must live with her all his lifetime (Deuteronomy 22:19)

• That a man may not divorce his wife concerning whom he has published an evil report (about her unchastity before marriage) (Deuteronomy 22:19)

• To divorce by a formal written document (Deuteronomy 24:1)

• That one who divorced his wife shall not remarry her, if after the divorce she had been married to another man (Deuteronomy 24:4)

• That a widow whose husband died childless must not be married to anyone but her deceased husband's brother (Deuteronomy 25:5)

• To marry the widow of a brother who has died childless (Deuteronomy 25:5)

• That the widow formally release the brother-in-law (if he refuses to marry her) (Deuteronomy 25:7-9)

Forbidden Sexual Relations

• Not to indulge in familiarities with relatives, such as kissing, embracing, winking which may lead to incest (Leviticus 18:6)

• Not to commit incest with one's mother (Leviticus 18:7)

• Not to commit sodomy with one's father (Leviticus 18:7)

• Not to commit incest with one's father's wife (Leviticus 18:8)

• Not to commit incest with one's sister (Leviticus 18:9)

• Not to commit incest with one's father's wife's daughter (Leviticus 18:9)

• Not to commit incest with one's son's daughter (Leviticus 18:10)

• Not to commit incest with one's daughter's daughter (Leviticus 18:10)

• Not to commit incest with one's daughter (Leviticus 18:11)

• Not to commit incest with one's fathers sister (Leviticus 18:12)

• Not to commit incest with one's mother's sister (Leviticus 18:13)

• Not to commit incest with one's father's brothers wife (Leviticus 18:14)

• Not to commit sodomy with one's father's brother (Leviticus 18:14)

• Not to commit incest with one's son's wife (Leviticus 18:15)

• Not to commit incest with one's brother's wife (Leviticus 18:16)

• Not to commit incest with one's wife's daughter (Leviticus 18:17)

• Not to commit incest with the daughter of one's wife's son (Leviticus 18:17)

• Not to commit incest with the daughter of one's wife's daughter (Leviticus 18:17)

• Not to commit incest with one's wife's sister (Leviticus 18:18)

• Not to have relations with a woman in her menstrual period (Leviticus 18:19)

• Not to have relations with another man's wife (Leviticus 18:20)

• Not to commit sodomy with a male (Leviticus 18:22)

• Not to have relations with a beast (Leviticus 18:23)

• That a woman shall not have relations with a beast (Leviticus 18:23)

• Not to castrate the male of any species; neither a man, nor a domestic or wild beast, nor a fowl (Leviticus 22:24)

Times and Seasons

• That the new month shall be solemnly proclaimed as holy, and the months and years shall be calculated by the Supreme Court only (Exodus 12:2)

• Not to travel on Shabbat outside the limits of one's place of residence (Exodus 16:29)

• To sanctify Shabbat (Exodus 20:8)

• Not to do work on Shabbat (Exodus 20:10)

• To rest on Shabbat (Exodus 23:12; 34:21)

• To celebrate the festivals (Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot) (Exodus 23:14)

• To rejoice on the festivals (Deuteronomy 16:14)

• To appear in the Sanctuary on the festivals (Deuteronomy 16:16)

• To remove chametz on the Eve of Passover (Exodus 12:15)

• To rest on the first day of Passover (Exodus 12:16; Leviticus 23:7)

• Not to do work on the first day of Passover (Exodus 12:16; Leviticus 23:6-7)

• To rest on the seventh day of Passover (Exodus 12:16; Leviticus 23:8)

• Not to do work on the seventh day of Passover (Exodus 12:16; Leviticus 23:8)

• To eat matzah on the first night of Passover (Exodus 12:18)

• That no chametz be in the Israelite's possession during Passover (Exodus 12:19)

• Not to eat any food containing chametz on Passover (Exodus 12:20)

• Not to eat chametz on Passover (Exodus 13:3)

• That chametz shall not be seen in an Israelite's home during Passover (Exodus 13:7)

• To discuss the departure from Egypt on the first night of Passover (Exodus 13:8)

• Not to eat chametz after mid-day on the fourteenth of Nissan (Deuteronomy 16:3)

• To count forty-nine days from the time of the cutting of the Omer (first sheaves of the barley harvest) (Leviticus 23:15)

• To rest on Shavuot (Leviticus 23:21)

• Not to do work on the Shavuot (Leviticus 23:21)

• To rest on Rosh Hashanah (Leviticus 23:24)

• Not to do work on Rosh Hashanah (Leviticus 23:25)

• To hear the sound of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah (Numbers 29:1)

• To fast on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 23:27)

• Not to eat or drink on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 23:29)

• Not to do work on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 23:31)

• To rest on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 23:32)

• To rest on the first day of Sukkot (Leviticus 23:35)

• Not to do work on the first day of Sukkot (Leviticus 23:35)

• To rest on the eighth day of Sukkot (Shemini Atzeret) (Leviticus 23:36)

• Not to do work on the eighth day of Sukkot (Shemini Atzeret) (Leviticus 23:36)

• To take during Sukkot a palm branch and the other three plants (Leviticus 23:40)

• To dwell in booths seven days during Sukkot (Leviticus 23:42)

Dietary Laws

• To examine the marks in cattle (so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean) (Leviticus 11:2)

• Not to eat the flesh of unclean beasts (Leviticus 11:4)

• To examine the marks in fishes (so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean) (Leviticus 11:9)

• Not to eat unclean fish (Leviticus 11:11)

• To examine the marks in fowl, so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Deuteronomy 14:11)

• Not to eat unclean fowl (Leviticus 11:13)

• To examine the marks in locusts, so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Leviticus 11:21)

• Not to eat a worm found in fruit (Leviticus 11:41)

• Not to eat of things that creep upon the earth (Leviticus 11:41-42)

• Not to eat any vermin of the earth (Leviticus 11:44)

• Not to eat things that swarm in the water (Leviticus 11:43 and 46)

• Not to eat of winged insects (Deuteronomy 14:19)

• Not to eat the flesh of a beast that is treifah (literally torn) (Exodus 22:30)

• Not to eat the flesh of a beast that died of itself (Deuteronomy 14:21)

• To slay cattle, deer and fowl according to the laws of shechitah if their flesh is to be eaten (Deuteronomy 12:21)

• Not to eat a limb removed from a living beast (Deuteronomy 12:23)

• Not to slaughter an animal and its young on the same day (Leviticus 22:28)

• Not to take the mother-bird with the young (Deuteronomy 22:6)

• To set the mother-bird free when taking the nest (Deuteronomy 22:6-7)

• Not to eat the flesh of an ox that was condemned to be stoned (Exodus 21:28)

• Not to boil meat with milk (Exodus 23:19)

• Not to eat flesh with milk (Exodus 34:26)

• Not to eat the sinew of the thigh-vein which shrank (Leviticus 32:33)

• Not to eat chelev (tallow-fat) (Leviticus 7:23)

• Not to eat blood (Leviticus 7:26)

• To cover the blood of undomesticated animals (deer, etc.) and of fowl that have been killed (Leviticus 17:13)

• Not to eat or drink like a glutton or a drunkard (not to rebel against father or mother) (Leviticus 19:26; Deuteronomy 21:20)

Business Practices

• Not to do wrong in buying or selling (Leviticus 25:14)

• Not to make a loan to an Israelite on interest (Leviticus 25:37)

• Not to borrow on interest (Deuteronomy 23:20) (because this would cause the lender to sin)

• Not to take part in any usurious transaction between borrower and lender, neither as a surety, nor as a witness, nor as a writer of the bond for them (Exodus 22:24)

• To lend to a poor person (Exodus 22:24)

• Not to demand from a poor man repayment of his debt, when the creditor knows that he cannot pay, nor press him (Exodus 22:24)

• Not to take in pledge utensils used in preparing food (Deuteronomy 24:6)

• Not to exact a pledge from a debtor by force (Deuteronomy 24:10)

• Not to keep the pledge from its owner at the time when he needs it (Deuteronomy 24:12)

• To return a pledge to its owner (Deuteronomy 24:13)

• Not to take a pledge from a widow (Deuteronomy 24:17)

• Not to commit fraud in measuring (Leviticus 19:35)

• To ensure that scales and weights are correct (Leviticus 19:36)

• Not to possess inaccurate measures and weights (Deuteronomy 25:13-14)

Employees, Servants and Slaves

• Not to delay payment of a hired man's wages (Leviticus 19:13)

• That the hired laborer shall be permitted to eat of the produce he is reaping (Deuteronomy 23:25-26)

• That the hired laborer shall not take more than he can eat (Deuteronomy 23:25)

• That a hired laborer shall not eat produce that is not being harvested (Deuteronomy 23:26)

• To pay wages to the hired man at the due time (Deuteronomy 24:15)

• To deal judicially with the Hebrew bondman in accordance with the laws appertaining to him (Exodus 21:2-6)

• Not to compel the Hebrew servant to do the work of a slave (Leviticus 25:39)

• Not to sell a Hebrew servant as a slave (Leviticus 25:42)

• Not to treat a Hebrew servant rigorously (Leviticus 25:43)

• Not to permit a gentile to treat harshly a Hebrew bondman sold to him (Leviticus 25:53)

• Not to send away a Hebrew bondman servant empty handed, when he is freed from service (Deuteronomy 15:13)

• To bestow liberal gifts upon the Hebrew bondsman (at the end of his term of service), and that the same should be done to a Hebrew bondwoman (Deuteronomy 15:14)

• To redeem a Hebrew maid-servant (Exodus 21:8)

• Not to sell a Hebrew maid-servant to another person (Exodus 21:8)

• To espouse a Hebrew maid-servant (Exodus 21:8-9)

• To keep the Canaanite slave forever (Leviticus 25:46)

• Not to surrender a slave, who has fled to the land of Israel, to his owner who lives outside Israel (Deuteronomy 23:16)

• Not to wrong such a slave (Deuteronomy 23:17)

• Not to muzzle a beast, while it is working in produce which it can eat and enjoy (Deuteronomy 25:4)

Vows, Oaths and Swearing

• That a man should fulfill whatever he has uttered (Deuteronomy 23:24)

• Not to swear needlessly (Exodus 20:7)

• Not to violate an oath or swear falsely (Leviticus 19:12)

• To decide in cases of annulment of vows, according to the rules set forth in the Torah (Numbers 30:2-17)

• Not to break a vow (Numbers 30:3)

• To swear by His name truly (Deuteronomy 10:20)

• Not to delay in fulfilling vows or bringing vowed or free-will offerings (Deuteronomy 23:22)

The Sabbatical and Jubilee Years

• To let the land lie fallow in the Sabbatical year (Exodus 23:11; Leviticus 25:2)

• To cease from tilling the land in the Sabbatical year (Exodus 23:11) (Leviticus 25:2)

• Not to till the ground in the Sabbatical year (Leviticus 25:4)

• Not to do any work on the trees in the Sabbatical year (Leviticus 25:4)

• Not to reap the aftermath that grows in the Sabbatical year, in the same way as it is reaped in other years (Leviticus 25:5)

• Not to gather the fruit of the tree in the Sabbatical year in the same way as it is gathered in other years (Leviticus 25:5)

• To sound the Ram's horn in the Sabbatical year (Leviticus 25:9)

• To release debts in the seventh year (Deuteronomy 15:2)

• Not to demand return of a loan after the Sabbatical year has passed (Deuteronomy 15:2)

• Not to refrain from making a loan to a poor man, because of the release of loans in the Sabbatical year (Deuteronomy 15:9)

• To assemble the people to hear the Torah at the close of the seventh year (Deuteronomy 31:12)

• To count the years of the Jubilee by years and by cycles of seven years (Leviticus 25:8)

• To keep the Jubilee year holy by resting and letting the land lie fallow (Leviticus 25:10)

• Not to cultivate the soil nor do any work on the trees, in the Jubilee Year (Leviticus 25:11)

• Not to reap the aftermath of the field that grew of itself in the Jubilee Year, in the same way as in other years (Leviticus 25:11)

• Not to gather the fruit of the tree in the Jubilee Year, in the same way as in other years (Leviticus 25:11)

• To grant redemption to the land in the Jubilee year (Leviticus 25:24)

The Court and Judicial Procedure

• To appoint judges and officers in every community of Israel (Deuteronomy 16:18)

• Not to appoint as a judge, a person who is not well versed in the laws of the Torah even if he is expert in other branches of knowledge (Deuteronomy 1:17)

• To adjudicate cases of purchase and sale (Leviticus 25:14)

• To judge cases of liability of a paid depositary (Exodus 22:9)

• To adjudicate cases of loss for which a gratuitous borrower is liable (Exodus 22:13-14)

• To adjudicate cases of inheritances (Numbers 27:8-11)

• To judge cases of damage caused by an uncovered pit (Exodus 21:33-34)

• To judge cases of injuries caused by beasts (Exodus 21:35-36)

• To adjudicate cases of damage caused by trespass of cattle (Exodus 22:4)

• To adjudicate cases of damage caused by fire (Exodus 22:5)

• To adjudicate cases of damage caused by a gratuitous depositary (Exodus 22:6-7)

• To adjudicate other cases between a plaintiff and a defendant (Exodus 22:8)

• Not to curse a judge (Exodus 22:27)

• That one who possesses evidence shall testify in Court (Leviticus 5:1)

• Not to testify falsely (Exodus 20:13)

• That a witness, who has testified in a capital case, shall not lay down the law in that particular case (Numbers 35:30)

• That a transgressor shall not testify (Exodus 23:1)

• That the court shall not accept the testimony of a close relative of the defendant in matters of capital punishment (Deuteronomy 24:16)

• Not to hear one of the parties to a suit in the absence of the other party (Exodus 23:1)

• To examine witnesses thoroughly (Deuteronomy 13:15)

• Not to decide a case on the evidence of a single witness (Deuteronomy 19:15)

• To give the decision according to the majority, when there is a difference of opinion among the members of the Sanhedrin as to matters of law (Exodus 23:2)

• Not to decide, in capital cases, according to the view of the majority, when those who are for condemnation exceed by one only, those who are for acquittal (Exodus 23:2)

• That, in capital cases, one who had argued for acquittal, shall not later on argue for condemnation (Exodus 23:2)

• To treat parties in a litigation with equal impartiality (Leviticus 19:15)

• Not to render iniquitous decisions (Leviticus 19:15)

• Not to favor a great man when trying a case (Leviticus 19:15)

• Not to take a bribe (Exodus 23:8)

• Not to be afraid of a bad man when trying a case (Deuteronomy 1:17)

• Not to be moved in trying a case by the poverty of one of the parties (Exodus 23:3; Leviticus 19:15)

• Not to pervert the judgment of strangers or orphans (Deuteronomy 24:17)

• Not to pervert the judgment of a sinner (a person poor in fulfillment of commandments) (Exodus 23:6)

• Not to render a decision on one's personal opinion, but only on the evidence of two witnesses, who saw what actually occurred (Exodus 23:7)

• Not to execute one guilty of a capital offense, before he has stood his trial (Numbers 35:12)

• To accept the rulings of every Supreme Court in Israel (Deuteronomy 17:11)

• Not to rebel against the orders of the Court (Deuteronomy 17:11)

Injuries and Damages

• To make a parapet for your roof (Deuteronomy 22:8)

• Not to leave something that might cause hurt (Deuteronomy 22:8)

• To save the pursued even at the cost of the life of the pursuer (Deuteronomy 25:12)

• Not to spare a pursuer, but he is to be slain before he reaches the pursued and slays the latter, or uncovers his nakedness (Deuteronomy 25:12)

Property and Property Rights

• Not to sell a field in the land of Israel in perpetuity (Leviticus 25:23)

• Not to change the character of the open land (about the cities of) the Levites or of their fields; not to sell it in perpetuity, but it may be redeemed at any time (Leviticus 25:34)

• That houses sold within a walled city may be redeemed within a year (Leviticus 25:29)

• Not to remove landmarks (property boundaries) (Deuteronomy 19:14)

• Not to swear falsely in denial of another's property rights (Leviticus 19:11)

• Not to deny falsely another's property rights (Leviticus 19:11)

• Never to settle in the land of Egypt (Deuteronomy 17:16)

• Not to steal personal property (Leviticus 19:11)

• To restore that which one took by robbery (Leviticus 5:23)

• To return lost property (Deuteronomy 22:1)

• Not to pretend not to have seen lost property, to avoid the obligation to return it (Deuteronomy 22:3)

Criminal Laws

• Not to slay an innocent person (Exodus 20:13)

• Not to kidnap any person of Israel (Exodus 20:13)

• Not to rob by violence (Leviticus 19:13)

• Not to defraud (Leviticus 19:13)

• Not to covet what belongs to another (Exodus 20:14)

• Not to crave something that belongs to another (Deuteronomy 5:18)

• Not to indulge in evil thoughts and sights (Numbers 15:39)

Punishment and Restitution

• That the Court shall pass sentence of death by decapitation with the sword (Exodus 21:20; Leviticus 26:25)

• That the Court shall pass sentence of death by strangulation (Leviticus 20:10)

• That the Court shall pass sentence of death by burning with fire (Leviticus 20:14)

• That the Court shall pass sentence of death by stoning (Deuteronomy 22:24)

• To hang the dead body of one who has incurred that penalty (Deuteronomy 21:22)

• That the dead body of an executed criminal shall not remain hanging on the tree over night (Deuteronomy 21:23)

• To inter the executed on the day of execution (Deuteronomy 21:23)

• Not to accept ransom from a murderer (Numbers 35:31)

• To exile one who committed accidental homicide (Numbers 35:25)

• To establish six cities of refuge (for those who committed accidental homicide) (Deuteronomy 19:3)

• Not to accept ransom from an accidental homicide, so as to relieve him from exile (Numbers 35:32)

• To decapitate the heifer in the manner prescribed (in expiation of a murder on the road, the perpetrator of which remained undiscovered) (Deuteronomy 21:4)

• Not to plow nor sow the rough valley (in which a heifer's neck was broken) (Deuteronomy 21:4)

• To adjudge a thief to pay compensation or (in certain cases) suffer death (Exodus 21:16; Exodus 21:37; Exodus 22:1)

• That he who inflicts a bodily injury shall pay monetary compensation (Exodus 21:18-19)

• To impose a penalty of fifty shekels upon the seducer (of an unbetrothed virgin) and enforce the other rules in connection with the case (Exodus 22:15-16)

• That the violator (of an unbetrothed virgin) shall marry her (Deuteronomy 22:28-29)

• That one who has raped a damsel and has then (in accordance with the law) married her, may not divorce her (Deuteronomy 22:29)

• Not to inflict punishment on Shabbat (Exodus 35:3)

• To punish the wicked by the infliction of stripes (Deuteronomy 25:2)

• Not to exceed the statutory number of stripes laid on one who has incurred that punishment (Deuteronomy 25:3)

• Not to spare the offender, in imposing the prescribed penalties on one who has caused damage (Deuteronomy 19:13)

• To do unto false witnesses as they had purposed to do (to the accused) (Deuteronomy 19:19)

• Not to punish anyone who has committed an offense under duress (Deuteronomy 22:26)

Prophecy

• To heed the call of every prophet in each generation, provided that he neither adds to, nor takes away from the Torah (Deuteronomy 18:15)

• Not to prophesy falsely (Deuteronomy 18:20)

• Not to refrain from putting a false prophet to death nor to be in fear of him (Deuteronomy 18:22)