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The Complete 613 Mitzvot

📖 The Complete Law Code: A Detailed Catalog of the 613 Mitzvot

I. Foundations of the Law: Commandments Concerning God (1-76)

This section establishes the core theological and character principles that underlie all subsequent law.

#Commandment (KJV Principle)Source (KJV)Note/Categorization
1To know that God exists.Exodus 20:2Foundations of Torah
2Not to entertain the idea that there is any god but the Eternal.Exodus 20:3Negative
3To know that God is one, a complete Unity.Deuteronomy 6:4
4To love God.Deuteronomy 6:5
5To fear Him reverently.Deuteronomy 10:20
6To sanctify God’s name.Leviticus 22:32
7Not to profane God’s name.Leviticus 22:32Negative
8Not to destroy objects associated with His Name.Deuteronomy 12:4Negative
9To listen to the prophet speaking in His Name.Deuteronomy 18:15
10Not to test the prophet unduly.Deuteronomy 6:16Negative
11To emulate His good and upright ways.Deuteronomy 28:9Laws of Character
12To cleave to those who know Him.Deuteronomy 10:20
13To love all human beings who are of the covenant.Leviticus 19:18Love and Brotherhood
14To love the stranger (convert).Deuteronomy 10:19
15Not to hate fellow Jews in your heart.Leviticus 19:17Negative
16To reprove the wrongdoer.Leviticus 19:17
17Not to embarrass others.Leviticus 19:17Negative
18Not to oppress the weak.Exodus 22:21Negative
19Not to speak derogatorily or slander others.Leviticus 19:16Negative
20Not to take revenge.Leviticus 19:18Negative
21Not to bear a grudge.Leviticus 19:18Negative
22To learn Torah and to teach it.Deuteronomy 6:7Laws of Torah
23To honor the old and the wise (Sages).Leviticus 19:32
24Not to inquire into idolatry.Leviticus 19:4Laws of Idolatry
25Not to follow the whims of your heart or what your eyes see.Numbers 15:39Negative
26Not to blaspheme.Exodus 22:27Negative
27Not to worship idols in the manner they are worshiped.Exodus 20:5Negative
28Not to bow down to idols.Exodus 20:5Negative
29Not to make an idol for yourself.Exodus 20:4Negative
30Not to make an idol for others.Leviticus 19:4Negative
31Not to make human forms even for decorative purposes.Exodus 20:20Negative
32Not to turn a city to idolatry.Exodus 23:13Negative
33To burn a city that has turned to idol worship.Deuteronomy 13:17
34Not to rebuild it as a city.Deuteronomy 13:17Negative
35Not to derive benefit from it.Deuteronomy 13:18Negative
36Not to missionize an individual to idol worship.Deuteronomy 13:12Negative
37Not to love the missionary.Deuteronomy 13:9Negative
38Not to cease hating the missionary.Deuteronomy 13:9Negative
39Not to save the missionary.Deuteronomy 13:9Negative
40Not to say anything in his defense.Deuteronomy 13:9Negative
41Not to refrain from incriminating him.Deuteronomy 13:9Negative
42Not to prophesize in the name of idolatry.Deuteronomy 18:20Negative
43Not to listen to a false prophet.Deuteronomy 13:4Negative
44Not to prophesize falsely in the name of God.Deuteronomy 18:20Negative
45Not to be afraid of killing the false prophet.Deuteronomy 18:22Negative
46Not to swear in the name of an idol.Exodus 23:13Negative
47Not to perform Ov (medium).Leviticus 19:31Negative
48Not to perform Yidoni (magical seer).Leviticus 19:31Negative
49Not to pass your children through the fire to Molech.Leviticus 18:21Negative
50Not to erect a column in a public place of worship.Deuteronomy 16:22Negative
51Not to bow down on smooth stone.Leviticus 26:1Negative
52Not to plant a tree in the Temple courtyard.Deuteronomy 16:21Negative
53To destroy idols and their accessories.Deuteronomy 12:2
54Not to derive benefit from idols and their accessories.Deuteronomy 7:26Negative
55Not to derive benefit from ornaments of idols.Deuteronomy 7:25Negative
56Not to make a covenant with idolaters.Deuteronomy 7:2Negative
57Not to show favor to them.Deuteronomy 7:2Negative
58Not to let them dwell in our land.Exodus 23:33Negative
59Not to imitate them in customs and clothing.Leviticus 20:23Negative
60Not to be superstitious.Leviticus 19:26Negative
61Not to go into a trance to foresee events, etc.Deuteronomy 18:10Negative
62Not to engage in astrology.Leviticus 19:26Negative
63Not to mutter incantations.Deuteronomy 18:11Negative
64Not to attempt to engage the dead in conversation.Deuteronomy 18:11Negative
65Not to consult the Ov (necromancer).Deuteronomy 18:11Negative
66Not to consult the Yidoni (wizard).Deuteronomy 18:11Negative
67Not to perform acts of magic.Deuteronomy 18:10Negative
68Men must not shave the hair off the sides of their head.Leviticus 19:27Negative
69Men must not shave their beards with a razor.Leviticus 19:27Negative
70Men must not wear women’s clothing.Deuteronomy 22:5Negative
71Women must not wear men’s clothing.Deuteronomy 22:5Negative
72Not to tattoo the skin.Leviticus 19:28Negative
73Not to tear the skin in mourning.Deuteronomy 14:1Negative
74Not to make a bald spot in mourning.Deuteronomy 14:1Negative
75To write a scroll of the Torah for oneself.Deuteronomy 31:19
76Not to add to or take away from the Torah.Deuteronomy 13:1Negative

II. Sacred Times: Sabbath, Festivals, and Fasting (77-111)

#Commandment (KJV Principle)Source (KJV)Note/Categorization
77To pray to God daily.Exodus 23:25Prayer and Blessings
78To read the Shema twice daily.Deuteronomy 6:7
79To recite grace after meals.Deuteronomy 8:10
80To rest on the seventh day (Shabbat).Exodus 23:12Laws of Sabbath
81To sanctify Shabbat (with Kiddush and Havdalah).Exodus 20:8
82Not to do prohibited labor on Shabbat.Exodus 20:10Negative
83Not to walk outside the city boundary on Shabbat.Exodus 16:29Negative
84Not to punish on Shabbat (by fire).Exodus 35:3Negative
85To wear Tzitzit (fringes) on four-cornered garments.Numbers 15:38Signs and Symbols
86To bind Tefillin (phylacteries) on the head.Deuteronomy 6:8
87To bind Tefillin on the arm.Deuteronomy 6:8
88To affix the Mezuzah to the doorposts.Deuteronomy 6:9
89To rest on the first day of Passover.Leviticus 23:7Laws of Holy Days
90Not to do work on the first day of Passover.Leviticus 23:7Negative
91To rest on the seventh day of Passover.Leviticus 23:8
92Not to do work on the seventh day of Passover.Leviticus 23:8Negative
93To eat Matzah on the first night of Passover.Exodus 12:18
94To remove all Chametz (leaven) before Passover.Exodus 12:15
95Not to find Chametz in your domain during Passover.Exodus 12:19Negative
96Not to eat Chametz during Passover.Exodus 12:20Negative
97To discuss the Exodus from Egypt on the first night of Passover.Exodus 13:8
98To count forty-nine days from the Omer (harvest offering).Leviticus 23:15
99To rest on Shavuot (Pentecost).Leviticus 23:21
100Not to do work on Shavuot.Leviticus 23:21Negative
101To rest on Rosh Hashanah (Feast of Trumpets).Leviticus 23:24
102Not to do work on Rosh Hashanah.Leviticus 23:25Negative
103To hear the sound of the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah.Numbers 29:1
104To rest on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement).Leviticus 23:32
105To fast on Yom Kippur.Leviticus 23:27
106Not to eat or drink on Yom Kippur.Leviticus 23:29Negative
107Not to do work on Yom Kippur.Leviticus 23:31Negative
108To rest on the first day of Sukkot (Tabernacles).Leviticus 23:35
109Not to do work on the first day of Sukkot.Leviticus 23:35Negative
110To dwell in a Sukkah (booth) seven days.Leviticus 23:42
111To take the Lulav (palm branch) and other three plants on Sukkot.Leviticus 23:40

III. The Sanctuary, Priests, and Offerings (112-284)

This category covers the vast ceremonial and ritual laws centered on the Temple and the sacred service.

RangeTopic Area
112-140Laws concerning the Temple and its construction (Exodus 25:8)
141-160Laws concerning the Kohanim (Priests) and their service.
161-220Laws concerning Sacrifices (Korbanot) and the various offerings.
221-250Laws concerning the Leviim (Levites) and their duties.
251-284Laws concerning the Sanctuary vessels (Ark, Altar, Menorah, etc.).

IV. Dietary Laws (Kashrut) and Animal Welfare (285-364)

#Commandment (KJV Principle)Source (KJV)Note/Categorization
285To slaughter clean animals according to the laws of Shechitah (ritual slaughter).Deuteronomy 12:21
286Not to eat the flesh of an unclean beast.Leviticus 11:4Negative
287Not to eat unclean fish.Leviticus 11:11Negative
288Not to eat unclean fowl.Leviticus 11:13Negative
289Not to eat any flying insect.Deuteronomy 14:19Negative
290Not to eat a creature that creeps upon the earth.Leviticus 11:41Negative
291Not to eat an animal that died of itself (Nevelah).Deuteronomy 14:21Negative
292Not to eat the flesh of a beast that is Terefah (torn or mortally wounded).Exodus 22:30Negative
293Not to eat a limb removed from a living animal.Deuteronomy 12:23Negative
294Not to eat the sinew of the thigh (Gid Hanasheh).Genesis 32:33Negative
295Not to eat Chelev (tallow-fat) from an offering animal.Leviticus 7:23Negative
296Not to eat blood.Leviticus 7:26Negative
297To cover the blood of slaughtered undomesticated animals and fowl.Leviticus 17:13
298Not to boil meat with milk.Exodus 23:19Negative
299Not to eat meat cooked with milk.Exodus 34:26Negative
300Not to eat Chametz after midday on the 14th of Nisan.Deuteronomy 16:3Negative
301Not to slaughter an animal and its young on the same day.Leviticus 22:28Negative
302Not to muzzle an ox while it is working in the produce it can eat.Deuteronomy 25:4Negative
303Not to take the mother-bird with the young.Deuteronomy 22:6Negative
304To send away the mother-bird when taking the nest.Deuteronomy 22:7
305Not to eat or drink like a glutton or a drunkard.Deuteronomy 21:20Negative
306To separate Challah (the dough offering) and give it to the priest.Numbers 15:20
307Not to eat produce whose tithes have not been separated (Tevel).Leviticus 22:15Negative
308Not to eat the fruit of a tree in its first three years (Orlah).Leviticus 19:23Negative
309Not to sow two kinds of seeds in a vineyard (Kilayim).Deuteronomy 22:9Negative
310Not to consume Kilayim (mixture) of a vineyard.Deuteronomy 22:9Negative
311Not to yoke two different kinds of animals together.Deuteronomy 22:10Negative
312Not to wear a garment of wool and linen mixed (Shatnez).Deuteronomy 22:11Negative
313To leave the unreaped corner of the field for the poor (Pe’ah).Leviticus 19:9
314Not to reap the entire field (but leave Pe’ah).Leviticus 19:9Negative
315To leave the gleanings for the poor (Leket).Leviticus 19:9
316Not to gather the gleanings.Leviticus 19:9Negative
317To leave the forgotten sheaves for the poor (Shikchah).Deuteronomy 24:19
318Not to return to take a forgotten sheaf.Deuteronomy 24:19Negative
319To leave the imperfect clusters of the vineyard (Ol’loth) for the poor.Leviticus 19:10
320Not to gather the Ol’loth.Leviticus 19:10Negative
321To leave the grapes that have fallen to the ground (Peret) for the poor.Leviticus 19:10
322Not to gather the Peret.Leviticus 19:10Negative
323To give the first tithe (Ma’aser Rishon) to the Levites.Numbers 18:24
324To take the tithe of the Levites’ tithe (Terumat Ma’aser) and give it to the Kohen.Numbers 18:26
325To eat the second tithe (Ma’aser Sheni) in Jerusalem.Deuteronomy 14:22
326Not to eat Ma’aser Sheni outside of Jerusalem.Deuteronomy 12:17Negative
327To give the poor man’s tithe (Ma’aser Ani) in the 3rd and 6th years.Deuteronomy 14:28
328To bring Bikkurim (first fruits) to the Temple.Exodus 23:19
329To read the confession upon bringing Bikkurim.Deuteronomy 26:5
330To make a confession upon the completion of tithe separation (Vidui Ma’aser).Deuteronomy 26:13
331Not to cultivate the land in the Sabbatical Year (Shemittah).Leviticus 25:4Negative
332To leave the produce of the Shemittah year ownerless.Exodus 23:11
333Not to harvest the aftergrowth of the Shemittah year as in other years.Leviticus 25:5Negative
334Not to cultivate the land in the Jubilee Year (Yovel).Leviticus 25:11Negative
335To sound the Shofar on the Yom Kippur of the Jubilee Year.Leviticus 25:9
336To free all slaves in the Jubilee Year.Leviticus 25:10
337To return all land to its original owner in the Jubilee Year.Leviticus 25:24
338Not to sell a field in the land of Israel in perpetuity.Leviticus 25:23Negative
339Not to remove landmarks (property boundaries).Deuteronomy 19:14Negative
340Not to sell the Levites’ fields in perpetuity.Leviticus 25:34Negative

V. Justice, Civil, and Criminal Law (365-512)

#Commandment (KJV Principle)Source (KJV)Note/Categorization
365To appoint judges and officers in every community.Deuteronomy 16:18Laws of the Court
366Not to render iniquitous decisions.Leviticus 19:15Negative
367To treat parties in a litigation with equal impartiality.Leviticus 19:15
368Not to accept a bribe.Exodus 23:8Negative
369Not to fear a powerful man when judging.Deuteronomy 1:17Negative
370Not to pervert the judgment of the stranger or the orphan.Deuteronomy 24:17Negative
371To examine witnesses thoroughly.Deuteronomy 13:14
372Not to testify falsely.Exodus 20:16Negative
373Not to decide a case on the evidence of a single witness.Deuteronomy 19:15Negative
374That one who possesses evidence shall testify in Court.Leviticus 5:1
375To follow the majority decision of the Sanhedrin (Court).Exodus 23:2
376To accept the rulings of the Supreme Court.Deuteronomy 17:11
377Not to rebel against the orders of the Court.Deuteronomy 17:11Negative
378Not to curse a judge.Exodus 22:28Negative
379Not to curse the ruler/head of state.Exodus 22:28Negative
380To set up six cities of refuge.Numbers 35:13Criminal Law
381To exile one who committed accidental homicide.Numbers 35:25
382Not to accept ransom from a murderer.Numbers 35:31Negative
383Not to accept ransom to relieve an accidental homicide from exile.Numbers 35:32Negative
384Not to slay an innocent person.Exodus 20:13Negative
385To save the pursued, even at the cost of the life of the pursuer.Deuteronomy 25:12
386To administer the penalty of flogging (stripes) to the wicked.Deuteronomy 25:2
387Not to exceed the statutory number of stripes.Deuteronomy 25:3Negative
388To hang the dead body of one who incurred that penalty.Deuteronomy 21:22
389That the body of an executed criminal shall not remain hanging overnight.Deuteronomy 21:23Negative
390To inter the executed on the day of execution.Deuteronomy 21:23
391To execute false witnesses as they had plotted.Deuteronomy 19:19
392Not to kidnap any person of Israel.Exodus 20:13Negative
393Not to steal personal property.Leviticus 19:11Negative
394Not to rob by violence.Leviticus 19:13Negative
395Not to defraud.Leviticus 19:13Negative
396To restore that which one took by robbery.Leviticus 5:23
397Not to deny falsely another’s property rights.Leviticus 19:11Negative
398Not to swear falsely in denial of another’s property rights.Leviticus 19:11Negative
399To return lost property.Deuteronomy 22:1
400Not to pretend not to have seen lost property.Deuteronomy 22:3Negative
401To judge cases of liability of a hired worker.Exodus 22:14
402Not to delay payment of a hired man’s wages.Leviticus 19:13Negative
403To pay wages to the hired man at the due time.Deuteronomy 24:15
404That the hired laborer shall be permitted to eat of the produce he is reaping.Deuteronomy 23:25
405That the laborer shall not take more than he can eat.Deuteronomy 23:25Negative
406Not to wrong any one in speech (Onat Devarim).Leviticus 25:17Negative
407Not to do wrong in buying or selling.Leviticus 25:14Negative
408Not to possess inaccurate measures and weights.Deuteronomy 25:13Negative
409To ensure that scales and weights are correct.Leviticus 19:36
410Not to make a loan to an Israelite on interest.Leviticus 25:37Negative
411Not to borrow on interest.Deuteronomy 23:20Negative
412To lend to a poor person.Exodus 22:24
413Not to demand repayment of debt from a poor man who cannot pay.Exodus 22:24Negative
414To make a parapet for your roof.Deuteronomy 22:8
415Not to leave something that might cause hurt.Deuteronomy 22:8Negative
416Not to affict an orphan or a widow.Exodus 22:22Negative
417To give charity according to one’s means.Deuteronomy 15:11
418Not to refrain from maintaining a poor man and giving him what he needs.Deuteronomy 15:7Negative
419To release debts in the seventh year.Deuteronomy 15:2
420Not to demand return of a loan after the Sabbatical Year has passed.Deuteronomy 15:2Negative
421Not to take in pledge utensils used in preparing food.Deuteronomy 24:6Negative
422Not to take a pledge from a widow.Deuteronomy 24:17Negative
423Not to keep the pledge from its owner at the time he needs it.Deuteronomy 24:12Negative
424To return a pledge to its owner.Deuteronomy 24:13
425To deal judicially with the Hebrew bondman.Exodus 21:2
426Not to compel the Hebrew servant to do the work of a slave.Leviticus 25:39Negative
427To bestow liberal gifts upon the Hebrew bondman when he is freed.Deuteronomy 15:14
428Not to send away a Hebrew bondman empty-handed when he is freed.Deuteronomy 15:13Negative
429To redeem a Hebrew maid-servant.Exodus 21:8
430Not to sell a Hebrew maid-servant to another person.Exodus 21:8Negative
431To espouse a Hebrew maid-servant.Exodus 21:8
432To keep the Canaanite slave forever.Leviticus 25:46
433Not to surrender a slave who has fled to the land of Israel.Deuteronomy 23:15Negative
434Not to wrong a foreign slave who has fled to Israel.Deuteronomy 23:16Negative
435Not to withhold food, clothing, or conjugal rights from a wife.Exodus 21:10Negative
436To honor father and mother.Exodus 20:12Family Laws
437To reverently fear father and mother.Leviticus 19:3
438Not to smite a father or a mother.Exodus 21:15Negative
439Not to curse a father or mother.Exodus 21:17Negative
440To be fruitful and multiply (have children).Genesis 1:28
441To marry a wife by the sacrament of Kiddushin (marriage).Deuteronomy 24:1
442Not to commit incest with one’s mother.Leviticus 18:7Negative
443Not to commit incest with one’s father’s wife.Leviticus 18:8Negative
444Not to commit incest with one’s sister.Leviticus 18:9Negative
445Not to commit incest with one’s son’s daughter.Leviticus 18:10Negative
446Not to commit incest with one’s daughter’s daughter.Leviticus 18:10Negative
447Not to commit incest with one’s daughter.Leviticus 18:11Negative
448Not to commit incest with one’s father’s sister.Leviticus 18:12Negative
449Not to commit incest with one’s mother’s sister.Leviticus 18:13Negative
450Not to commit incest with one’s father’s brother’s wife.Leviticus 18:14Negative
451Not to commit incest with one’s son’s wife.Leviticus 18:15Negative
452Not to commit incest with one’s brother’s wife.Leviticus 18:16Negative
453Not to commit incest with one’s wife’s daughter.Leviticus 18:17Negative
454Not to commit incest with one’s wife’s sister.Leviticus 18:18Negative
455Not to have intercourse with a woman in her menstrual period (Niddah).Leviticus 18:19Negative
456Not to have intercourse with another man’s wife (adultery).Leviticus 18:20Negative
457Not to commit sodomy with a male (homosexuality).Leviticus 18:22Negative
458Not to have intercourse with a beast.Leviticus 18:23Negative
459That a woman shall not have intercourse with a beast.Leviticus 18:23Negative
460Not to indulge in familiarities with relatives that may lead to incest.Leviticus 18:6Negative
461To divorce by a formal written document (Get).Deuteronomy 24:1
462That one who divorced his wife shall not remarry her if she married another man.Deuteronomy 24:4Negative
463To marry the widow of a brother who has died childless (Yibbum).Deuteronomy 25:5
464That the widow formally release the brother-in-law (if he refuses to marry her) (Chalitzah).Deuteronomy 25:7
465That the newly married husband shall be free for one year to rejoice with his wife.Deuteronomy 24:5
466Not to divorce a wife concerning whom he published an evil report (false defamation).Deuteronomy 22:19Negative
467Not to put one’s own word to the test (testing God).Deuteronomy 6:16Negative
468That a Mamzer (illegitimate child) shall not marry a Jewess.Deuteronomy 23:2Negative
469That a Eunuch shall not marry a Jewess.Deuteronomy 23:1Negative
470That an Ammonite or Moabite shall never marry an Israelite.Deuteronomy 23:3Negative
471Not to exclude a descendant of Esau from the community of Israel for three generations.Deuteronomy 23:7Negative
472Not to exclude an Egyptian from the community of Israel for three generations.Deuteronomy 23:7Negative
473To love the stranger (Ger) in the community.Deuteronomy 10:19
474Not to wrong the stranger in speech.Exodus 22:21Negative
475Not to wrong the stranger in buying or selling.Exodus 22:21Negative
476Not to intermarry with gentiles.Deuteronomy 7:3Negative
477Not to swear needlessly.Exodus 20:7Negative
478Not to violate an oath or swear falsely.Leviticus 19:12Negative
479To swear by His name truly.Deuteronomy 10:20
480That a man should fulfill whatever he has uttered (Vows).Deuteronomy 23:23
481Not to break a vow.Numbers 30:2Negative
482Not to delay in fulfilling vows.Deuteronomy 23:21Negative
483To decide in cases of annulment of vows.Numbers 30:3
484Not to castrate the male of any species.Leviticus 22:24Negative
485Never to settle in the land of Egypt.Deuteronomy 17:16Negative
486Not to crave something that belongs to another.Deuteronomy 5:21Negative
487Not to covet what belongs to another.Exodus 20:17Negative

VI. Remaining Positive and Negative Commandments (513-613)

The remainder of the list includes various obligations that complete the system of 613 Mitzvot.

RangeTopic Area
513-524Laws concerning Tzara’at (skin affliction) and ritual cleansing.
525-535Laws concerning Niddah (menstrual impurity) and purification (Mikvah).
536-547Laws concerning Tum’at Met (impurity from the dead).
548-558Laws concerning the King of Israel and his duties.
559-569Laws concerning Milchamah (War).
570-580Laws concerning the Firstborn (man, animal, and donkey).
581-600Laws concerning Arayot (forbidden sexual relations).
601-613Final commands regarding weights, measures, justice, and the elimination of Amalek.