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Appendix J

Maimonides' List of Positive & Negative Mitzvot

R = RAMBAM (Maimonides); P = positive mitzvah; N = negative mitzvah

248 Positive Mitzvot    [Make a Comment]

RP1: Believing in God
RP2: Unity of God
RP3: Loving God
RP4: Fearing God
RP5: Worshiping God
RP6: Cleaving to God
RP7: Taking an oath by God's Name
RP8: Walking in God's ways
RP9: Sanctifying God's Name
RP10: Reading the Shema twice daily
RP11: Studying and teaching Torah
RP12: Wearing Tefillin of the head
RP13: Wearing Tefillin of the hand
RP14: To make Tzitzis
RP15: To affix a Mezuzah
RP16: Hakhel (assembly) during Sukkot
RP17: A king should write a Torah
RP18: Everyone should write a Torah
RP19: Grace after meals
RP20: Building a Sanctuary for God
RP21: Revering the Beit Hamikdash (sanctuary)
RP22: Guarding the Mikdash (sanctuary)
RP23: Levitical services in the Mikdash (sanctuary)
RP24: Ablutions of the Kohanim
RP25: Kindling the lamps by the Kohanim
RP26: Kohanim blessing Israel
RP27: The Showbread
RP28: Burning the Incense
RP29: The perpetual fire on the Altar
RP30: Removing the ashes from the Altar
RP31: Removing tameh (unclean) persons from the camp
RP32: Honoring the Kohanim
RP33: The Priestly garments
RP34: Kohanim bearing the Ark on their shoulders
RP35: The oil of the Anointment
RP36: Kohanim ministering in watches
RP37: Kohanim defiling themselves for deceased relatives
RP38: Kohein Gadol should only marry a virgin
RP39: Daily Burnt Offerings
RP40: Kohein Gadol's daily Meal Offering
RP41: The Shabbat Additional Offering
RP42: The New Moon Additional Offering
RP43: The Passover Additional Offering
RP44: The Meal Offering of the Omer
RP45: The Shavuot Additional Offering
RP46: Bring Two Loaves on Shavuot
RP47: The Rosh Hashana Additional Offering
RP48: The Yom Kippur Additional Offering
RP49: The Service of Yom Kippur
RP50: The Sukkot Offering
RP51: The Shemini Atzeret Additional Offering
RP52: The three annual pilgrimages
RP53: Appearing before the Lord during the Festivals
RP54: Rejoicing on the Festivals
RP55: Slaughtering the Passover Offering
RP56: Eating the Passover Offering
RP57: Slaughtering the Passover Sheini (second day) Offering
RP58: Eating the Passover Sheini (second day) Offering
RP59: Blowing the trumpets in the Sanctuary
RP60: Minimum age of cattle to be offered
RP61: Offering only unblemished sacrifices
RP62: Bringing salt with every offering
RP63: The Burnt-Offering
RP64: The Sin-Offering
RP65: The Guilt-Offering
RP66: The Peace-Offering
RP67: The Meal-Offering
RP68: Offerings of a Court that has erred
RP69: The Fixed Sin-Offering
RP70: The Suspensive Guilt-Offering
RP71: The Unconditional Guilt-Offering
RP72: The Offering of a Higher or Lower Value
RP73: Making confession
RP74: Offering brought by a zav (man with a discharge)
RP75: Offering brought by a zavah (woman with a discharge)
RP76: Offering of a woman after childbirth
RP77: Offering brought by a leper
RP78: Tithe of Cattle
RP79: Sanctifying the First-born
RP80: Redeeming the First-born
RP81: Redeeming the firstling of a donkey
RP82: Breaking the neck of the firstling of a donkey
RP83: Bringing due offerings on the first festival
RP84: All offerings to be brought to the Sanctuary
RP85: Bring all offerings due from outside Eretz Yisrael to Sanctuary
RP86: Redeeming blemished offerings
RP87: Holiness of substituted offerings
RP88: Kohanim eat the residue of the Meal Offerings
RP89: Kohanim eat the meat of the Consecrated Offerings
RP90: To burn Consecrated Offerings that have become tameh (unclean)
RP91: To burn the remnant of the Consecrated Offerings
RP92: The Nazir letting his hair grow
RP93: Nazirite obligations on completion of vow
RP94: All oral submissions to be fulfilled
RP95: Revocation of vows
RP96: Defilement through carcasses of animals
RP97: Defilement through carcasses of eight creeping creatures
RP98: Defilement of food and drink
RP99: Tumah (ritual impurity) of a menstruant
RP100: Tumah (ritual impurity) of a woman after childbirth
RP101: Tumah (ritual impurity) of a leper
RP102: Garments contaminated by leprosy
RP103: A leprous house
RP104: Tumah (ritual impurity) of a zav (man with a discharge)
RP105: Tumah (ritual impurity) of semen
RP106: Tumah (ritual impurity) of a zavah (woman with a discharge)
RP107: Tumah (ritual impurity) of a corpse
RP108: The law of the water of sprinkling
RP109: Immersing in a mikveh
RP110: Cleansing from Leprosy
RP111: A leper must shave his head
RP112: The leper must be made distinguishable
RP113: Ashes of the Red Heifer
RP114: Valuation of a person
RP115: Valuation of beasts
RP116: Valuation of houses
RP117: Valuation of fields
RP118: Restitution for Sacrilege
RP119: The fruits of the fourth-year planting
RP120: To leave the corners (Peah) for the poor
RP121: To leave gleanings for the poor
RP122: To leave the forgotten sheaf for the poor
RP123: To leave defective grape clusters for the poor
RP124: To leave grape gleanings for the poor
RP125: To bring First-fruits to the Sanctuary
RP126: To set aside the great Heave-offering
RP127: To set aside the first tithe
RP128: To set aside the second tithe
RP129: The Levites' tithe for the Kohanim
RP130: To set aside the poor-man's tithe in the third and sixth year
RP131: The avowal of the tithe
RP132: Recital on bringing the First-fruits
RP133: To set aside the Challah for the Kohein
RP134: Renouncing as ownerless produce of the Sabbatical year
RP135: Resting the land on the Sabbatical year
RP136: Sanctifying the Jubilee year
RP137: Blowing the Shofar in the Jubilee year
RP138: Reversion of the land in the Jubilee year
RP139: Redemption of property in a walled city
RP140: Counting the years till the Jubilee year
RP141: Canceling monetary claims in the Sabbatical year
RP142: Exacting debts from idolaters
RP143: The Kohein's due in the slaughter of every clean animal
RP144: The first of the fleece to be given to the Kohein
RP145: Devoted thing to God and the Kohein
RP146: Slaughtering animals before eating them
RP147: Covering the blood of slain birds and animals
RP148: Releasing the mother before taking the nest
RP149: Searching for the prescribed signs in cattle and animals
RP150: Searching for the prescribed signs in birds
RP151: Searching for the prescribed signs in grasshoppers
RP152: Searching for the prescribed signs in fishes
RP153: Determining the New Moon
RP154: Resting on Shabbat
RP155: Proclaiming the sanctity of Shabbat
RP156: Removal of chametz on Passover
RP157: Recounting Exodus from Egypt on first night of Passover
RP158: Eating Matzah on the first night of Passover
RP159: Resting on the first day of Passover
RP160: Resting on the seventh day of Passover
RP161: Counting the Omer
RP162: Resting on Shavuot
RP163: Resting on Rosh Hashana
RP164: Fasting on Yom Kippur
RP165: Resting on Yom Kippur
RP166: Resting on the first day of Sukkot
RP167: Resting on Shemini Atzeret
RP168: Dwelling in a Sukkah for seven days
RP169: Taking a Lulav on Sukkot
RP170: Hearing a Shofar on Rosh Hashana
RP171: Giving half a shekel annually
RP172: Heeding the Prophets
RP173: Appointing a King
RP174: Obeying the Great Court
RP175: Abiding by a majority decision
RP176: Appointing Judges and Officers of the Court
RP177: Treating litigants equally before the law
RP178: Testifying in Court
RP179: Inquiring into the testimony of witnesses
RP180: Condemning witnesses who testify falsely
RP181: Eglah Arufah (beheading of a heifer)
RP182: Establishing Six Cities of Refuge
RP183: Assigning cities to the Levi'im
RP184: Building fences on roofs; removing sources of danger from our dwellings
RP185: Destroying all idol-worship
RP186: The law of the apostate city
RP187: The law of the Seven Nations
RP188: The extinction of the seed of Amalek
RP189: Remembering the nefarious deeds of Amalek
RP190: The law of the non-obligatory war
RP191: Appoint a Kohein to speak to the people going to war and send back any man unfit for battle
RP192: Preparing a place beyond the camp
RP193: Including a digging tool among war implements
RP194: A robber to restore the stolen article
RP195: To give charity
RP196: Lavishing gifts on a Hebrew bondman on his freedom
RP197: Lending money to the poor
RP198: Lending money to the heathen with interest
RP199: Restoring a pledge to a needy owner
RP200: Paying wages on time
RP201: An employee is allowed to eat the produce he's working in
RP202: Unloading a tired animal
RP203: Assisting the owner in loading his burden
RP204: Returning lost property to its owner
RP205: Rebuking the sinner
RP206: Loving our Fellow Jew
RP207: Loving the convert
RP208: The law of weights and measures
RP209: Honoring scholars
RP210: Honoring parents
RP211: Fearing parents
RP212: Be fruitful and multiply
RP213: The law of marriage
RP214: Bridegroom devotes himself to his wife for one year
RP215: Circumcising one's son
RP216: Law of the Levirite Marriage
RP217: Law of Chalitzah (taking off the shoe)
RP218: A violator must marry the maiden he has violated
RP219: The law of the defamer of his bride
RP220: The law of the seducer
RP221: The law of the captive woman
RP222: The law of divorce
RP223: The law of a suspected adulteress
RP224: Whipping transgressors of certain commandments
RP225: The law of unintentional manslaughter
RP226: Beheading transgressors of certain commandments
RP227: Strangling transgressors of certain commandments
RP228: Burning transgressors of certain commandments
RP229: Stoning transgressors of certain commandments
RP230: Hanging after execution, transgressors of certain commandments
RP231: Burial on the day of execution
RP232: The law of the Hebrew bondman
RP233: Hebrew bondmaid to be married by her master or his son
RP234: Redemption of a Hebrew bondmaid
RP235: The law of a Canaanite bondman
RP236: Penalty of inflicting injury
RP237: The law of injuries caused by an ox
RP238: The law of injuries caused by a pit
RP239: The law of theft
RP240: The law of damage caused by a beast
RP241: The law of damage caused by a fire
RP242: The law of an unpaid bailee
RP243: The law of a paid bailee
RP244: The law of a borrower
RP245: The law of buying and selling
RP246: The law of litigants
RP247: Saving the life of the pursued
RP248: The law of inheritance

365 Negative Mitzvot    [Make a Comment]

RN1: Not believing in any other God
RN2: Not to make images for the purpose of worship
RN3: Not to make an idol (even for others) to worship
RN4: Not to make figures of human beings
RN5: Not to bow down to an idol
RN6: Not to worship idols
RN7: Not to hand over any children to Molech
RN8: Not to practice sorcery of the ov
RN9: Not to practice sorcery of the yidde'oni
RN10: Not to study idolatrous practices
RN11: Not to erect a pillar which people will assemble to honor
RN12: Not to make figured stones on which to prostrate ourselves
RN13: Not to plant trees in the Sanctuary
RN14: Not to swear by an idol
RN15: Not to people to idolatry
RN16: Not to try to persuade an Israelite to worship idols
RN17: Not to love someone who seeks to mislead you to idols
RN18: Not to relax one's aversion to the misleader
RN19: Not to save the life of a misleader
RN20: Not to plead for the misleader
RN21: Not to oppress evidence unfavorable to the misleader
RN22: No benefit from ornaments which have adorned an idol
RN23: Not rebuilding an apostate city
RN24: Not deriving benefit from property of an apostate city
RN25: Not increasing wealth from anything connected with idolatry
RN26: Not prophesying in the name of an idol
RN27: Not prophesying falsely
RN28: Not to listen to the prophesy made in the name of an idol
RN29: Not fearing or refraining from killing a false prophet
RN30: Not adopting the habits and customs of unbelievers
RN31: Not practicing divination
RN32: Not regulating one's conduct by the stars
RN33: Not practicing the art of the soothsayer
RN34: Not practicing sorcery
RN35: Not practicing the art of the charmer
RN36: Not consulting a necromancer who uses the ov
RN37: Not consulting a sorcerer who uses the ydo'a
RN38: Not to seek information from the dead
RN39: Women not to wear men's clothes or adornments
RN40: Men not wearing women's clothes or adornments
RN41: Not imprinting any marks on our bodies
RN42: Not wearing Shatnes (mixture of wool and linen)
RN43: Not shaving the temples of the head
RN44: Not shaving the beard
RN45: Not making cuttings in our flesh
RN46: Not settling in the land of Egypt
RN47: Not to follow one's heart or eyes
RN48: Not to make a covenant with the Seven Nations of Canaan
RN49: Not to spare the life of the Seven Nations
RN50: Not to show mercy to idolaters
RN51: Not to allow idolaters to settle in our land
RN52: Not to intermarry with an heretic
RN53: Not to intermarry with a male from Ammon or Moav
RN54: Not to exclude the descendants of Esau
RN55: Not to exclude the descendants of Egyptians
RN56: Not offering peace to Ammon and Moav
RN57: Not destroying fruit trees in time of siege
RN58: Not fearing heretics in time of war
RN59: Not forgetting what Amalek did to us
RN60: Not blaspheming the Great Name
RN61: Not violating a shevuat bittui (oath of utterance)
RN62: Not swearing a shevuat shav (vain oath)
RN63: Not profaning the Name of God
RN64: Not testing His promises and warnings
RN65: Not to break down houses of worship or to destroy holy books
RN66: Not leaving the body of an executed criminal hanging overnight
RN67: Not to interrupt the watch over the Sanctuary
RN68: Kohein Gadol may not enter Sanctuary at any but prescribed times
RN69: Kohein with blemish not to enter Sanctuary from Altar inwards
RN70: Kohein with a blemish not to minister in the Sanctuary
RN71: Kohein with a temporary blemish not to minister in Sanctuary
RN72: Levites and Kohanim not perform each other's allotted services
RN73: Not to be intoxicated when entering Sanctuary; and not to be intoxicated when giving a decision on Torah law
RN74: Zar (non-kohein) not to minister in Sanctuary
RN75: Tameh Kohein (unclean priest) not to minister in Sanctuary
RN76: Kohein who is tevul yom (unclean until evening) not to minister in Sanctuary
RN77: Tameh (unclean) person not to enter any part of Sanctuary
RN78: Tameh (unclean) person not to enter camp of Levites
RN79: Not to build an Altar of stones which were touched by iron
RN80: Not to ascend the Altar by steps
RN81: Not to extinguish the Altar fire
RN82: Not to offer any sacrifice whatever on the Golden Altar
RN83: Not to make oil like the Oil of Anointment
RN84: Not anoint anyone with special oil except Kohein Gadol and King
RN85: Not to make incense like used in Sanctuary
RN86: Not to remove the staves from their rings in the Ark
RN87: Not to remove the Breastplate from the Ephod
RN88: Not to tear the edge of the Kohein Gadol's robe
RN89: Not to offer sacrifices outside the Sanctuary Court
RN90: Not to slaughter holy offerings outside the Sanctuary Court
RN91: Not to dedicate a blemished animal to be offered on the Altar
RN92: Not to slaughter a blemished animal as a korban (sacrifice)
RN93: Not to dash the blood of a blemished beast on the Altar
RN94: Not to burn the sacrificial portions of blemished beast on Altar
RN95: Not to sacrifice a beast with a temporary blemish
RN96: Not to offer a blemished sacrifice of a gentile
RN97: Not to cause an offering to become blemished
RN98: Not to offer leaven or honey upon the Altar
RN99: Not to offer a sacrifice without salt
RN100: Not to offer on Altar the "hire of a harlot" or "price of a dog"
RN101: Not to slaughter the mother and her young on the same day
RN102: Not to put olive oil on the meal-offering of a sinner
RN103: Not to put frankincense on the meal-offering of a sinner
RN104: Not to mingle olive oil with meal-offering of suspected adulteress
RN105: Not to put frankincense on meal-offering of suspected adulteress
RN106: Not to change a beast that has been consecrated as an offering
RN107: Not to change one's holy offering for another
RN108: Not to redeem the firstling (of a clean beast)
RN109: Not to sell the tithe of cattle
RN110: Not to sell devoted property
RN111: Not to redeem devoted land without specific statement of purpose
RN112: Not to sever the head of the bird of Sin-offering during melikah (pinching the head)
RN113: Not to do any work with a dedicated beast
RN114: Not to shear a dedicated beast
RN115: Not slaughter the Korban of Passover while chametz in our possession
RN116: Not leave any sacrificial portions of the Korban of Passover overnight
RN117: Not allow meat of the Korban of Passover to remain till morning
RN118: Not allow meat of 14 Nissan Festival Offering remain till day 3:
RN119: Not allow meat of Passover Sheini (second day) offering to remain till morning
RN120: Not allow meat of thanksgiving offering to remain till morning
RN121: Not to break any bones of Passover offering
RN122: Not to break any bones of Passover Sheini (second day) offering
RN123: Not to remove Passover offering from where it is eaten
RN124: Not to bake the residue of a meal offering with leaven
RN125: Not to eat the Passover offering boiled or raw
RN126: Not to allow a ger toshav (resident alien) to eat the Passover offering
RN127: An uncircumcised person may not eat the Passover offering
RN128: Not to allow an apostate Israelite to eat the Passover offering
RN129: Tameh (unclean) person may not eat hallowed food
RN130: Not to eat meat of consecrated offerings which have become tameh (unclean)
RN131: Not eating nothar (meat kept beyond allotted time)
RN132: Not eating piggul (meat slaughtered with improper intentions)
RN133: A zar (person not descended from Aaron) may not eat terumah (offering)
RN134: A Kohein's tenant or hired servant may not eat terumah (offering)
RN135: An uncircumcised Kohein may not eat terumah (offering)
RN136: Tameh Kohein (unclean priest) may not eat terumah (offering)
RN137: A chalalah (woman of disqualified priestly affiliation) may not eat holy food
RN138: Not to eat the meal-offering of a Kohein
RN139: Not eat Sin-offering meat whose blood was brought into Sanctuary
RN140: Not to eat the invalidated consecrated offerings
RN141: Not to eat unredeemed 2nd tithe of corn outside Yerushalayim
RN142: Not consuming unredeemed 2nd tithe of wine outside Yerushalayim
RN143: Not consuming unredeemed 2nd tithe of oil outside Yerushalayim
RN144: Not eating an unblemished firstling outside Yerushalayim
RN145: Not eat sin-offering and guilt-offering outside Sanctuary court
RN146: Not to eat the meat of a burnt offering
RN147: Not eat lesser holy offerings before blood dashed on Altar
RN148: A zar (person not descended from Aaron) not to eat the most holy offerings
RN149: Kohein not to eat first fruits outside Yerushalayim
RN150: Not eating an unredeemed tameh (unclean) 2nd tithe, even in Yerushalayim
RN151: Not eating the 2nd tithe during mourning
RN152: Not spend 2nd tithe redemption money, except on food and drink
RN153: Not eating tevel (produce heave-offering and tithes not taken)
RN154: Not altering the prescribed order of harvest tithing
RN155: Not to delay payment of vows
RN156: Not to appear in Sanctuary on festival without sacrifice
RN157: Not to infringe on any oral obligation, even if without an oath
RN158: Kohein may not marry a zonah (woman of loose morals)
RN159: Kohein may not marry a chalalah (woman of disqualified priestly affiliation)
RN160: Kohein may not marry a divorcee
RN161: Kohein Gadol may not marry a widow
RN162: Kohein Gadol may not have relations with a widow
RN163: Kohein with disheveled hair may not enter the Sanctuary
RN164: Kohein wearing rent garments may not enter Sanctuary
RN165: Ministering Kohanim may not leave the Sanctuary
RN166: Common Kohein may not defile himself for dead (exceptions stated)
RN167: Kohein Gadol may not be under one roof with dead body
RN168: Kohein Gadol may not defile himself for any dead person
RN169: Levites may not take a share of the land
RN170: Levites may not share in the spoil on conquest of the Land
RN171: Not to tear out hair for the dead
RN172: Not to eat any unclean animal
RN173: Not to eat any unclean fish
RN174: Not to eat any unclean fowl
RN175: Not to eat any swarming winged insect
RN176: Not to eat anything which swarms on the earth
RN177: Not to eat any creeping thing that breeds in decayed matter
RN178: Not to eat living creatures that breed in seeds or fruit
RN179: Not to eat any swarming thing
RN180: Not to eat any animal which is a nevelah (died of self)
RN181: Not to eat an animal which is a treifah (animal torn by wild beast)
RN182: Not to eat a limb of a living animal
RN183: Not to eat the gid hanasheh (sinew of the thigh-vein)
RN184: Not to eat blood
RN185: Not to eat the fat of a clean animal
RN186: Not to cook meat in milk
RN187: Not to eat meat cooked in milk
RN188: Not to eat the flesh of a stoned ox
RN189: Not to eat bread made from grain of new crop
RN190: Not to eat roasted grain of the new crop
RN191: Not to eat fresh ears of grain
RN192: Not to eat orlah (fruit of trees less than three years old)
RN193: Not to eat kilai hakerem (vineyard sown with different kinds of seed)
RN194: Not to drink yayin nesach (libation wine for idol worship)
RN195: No eating or drinking to excess
RN196: Not to eat on Yom Kippur
RN197: Not to eat chametz (leavened bread or prohibited grains) on Passover
RN198: Not to eat an admixture of chametz (leavened bread or prohibited grains) on Passover
RN199: Not to eat chametz after noon of 14 Nissan
RN200: No chametz may be seen in our homes during Passover
RN201: Not to possess chametz during Passover
RN202: A Nazir (Nazirite) may not drink wine
RN203: A Nazir (Nazirite) may not eat fresh grapes
RN204: A Nazir (Nazirite) may not eat dried grapes
RN205: A Nazir (Nazirite) may not eat grape kernels
RN206: A Nazir (Nazirite) may not eat grape husks
RN207: A Nazir (Nazirite) may not rend himself tameh (unclean) for the dead
RN208: A Nazir (Nazirite) may not rend himself tameh (unclean) by entering house with corpse
RN209: A Nazir (Nazirite) may not shave
RN210: Not to reap all harvest without leaving a corner for the poor
RN211: Not to gather ears of corn that fell during harvesting
RN212: Not to gather the whole produce of vineyard at vintage time
RN213: Not to gather single fallen grapes during the vintage
RN214: Not to return for a forgotten sheaf
RN215: Not to sow kilayim (diverse kinds of seed in one field)
RN216: Not to sow grain or vegetables in a vineyard
RN217: Not to mate animals of different species
RN218: Not to work with two different kinds of animals together
RN219: Not preventing a beast from eating the produce where working
RN220: Not to cultivate the soil in the seventh year
RN221: Not to prune the trees in the seventh year
RN222: Not reap a self-grown plant in the 7th year as in ordinary year
RN223: Not gather self-grown fruit in the 7th year as in ordinary year
RN224: Not to cultivate the soil in the Jubilee year
RN225: Not to reap the aftergrowths of Jubilee year as in ordinary year
RN226: Not to gather fruit in Jubilee year as in ordinary year
RN227: Not to sell holdings in Eretz Yisrael (land of Israel) in perpetuity
RN228: No to sell the open lands of the Levites
RN229: Not to forsake the Levites
RN230: Not to demand payment of debts after Shmitah (Sabbatical) year
RN231: Not to withhold a loan to be canceled by the Shmitah (Sabbatical) year
RN232: Failing to give charity to our needy brethren
RN233: Not sending a Hebrew bondman away empty-handed
RN234: Not demanding payment from a debtor known unable to pay
RN235: Not lending at interest
RN236: Not borrowing at interest
RN237: Not participating in a loan at interest
RN238: Not oppressing an employee by delaying payment of his wages
RN239: Not taking a pledge from a debtor by force
RN240: Not keeping a needed pledge from its owner
RN241: Not taking a pledge from a widow
RN242: Not taking food utensils in pledge
RN243: Not abducting an Israelite
RN244: Not stealing money
RN245: Not committing robbery
RN246: Not fraudulently altering land boundaries
RN247: Not usurping our debts
RN248: Not repudiating our debts
RN249: Not to swear falsely in repudiating our debts
RN250: Not wronging one another in business
RN251: Not wronging one another by speech
RN252: Not wronging a proselyte by speech
RN253: Not wronging a proselyte in business
RN254: Not handing over a fugitive bondman
RN255: Not wronging a fugitive bondman
RN256: Not dealing harshly with orphans and widows
RN257: Not employing a Hebrew bondman in degrading tasks
RN258: Not selling a Hebrew bondman by public auction
RN259: Not having a Hebrew bondman do unnecessary work
RN260: Not allowing a heathen to mistreat a Hebrew bondman
RN261: Not selling a Hebrew bondmaid
RN262: Not to afflict one's wife or espoused Hebrew bondmaid by diminishing food, raiment or conjugal rights
RN263: Not selling a captive woman
RN264: Not enslaving a captive woman
RN265: Not planning to acquire someone else's property
RN266: Not coveting another's belongings
RN267: A hired laborer not eating growing crops
RN268: A hired laborer not putting of the harvest in his own vessel
RN269: Not ignoring lost property
RN270: Not leaving a person who is trapped under his burden
RN271: Not cheating in measurements and weights
RN272: Not keeping false weights and measures
RN273: A Judge not to commit unrighteousness
RN274: A Judge not accept gifts from litigants
RN275: A Judge not to favor a litigant
RN276: A Judge not avoid just judgement through fear of a wicked person
RN277: A Judge not to decide in favor of poor man, out of pity
RN278: A Judge not to pervert justice against person of evil repute
RN279: A Judge not to pity one who has killed or caused loss of limb
RN280: A Judge not to pervert justice due to proselytes or orphans
RN281: A Judge not to listen to one litigant in absence of the other
RN282: A court may not convict by a majority of one in a capital case
RN283: A judge may not rely on the opinion of a fellow judge, or may not argue for conviction after favoring acquittal
RN284: Not appointing an unlearned judge
RN285: Not bearing false witness
RN286: A Judge not to receive a wicked man's testimony
RN287: A Judge not to receive testimony from litigant's relatives
RN288: Not convicting on the testimony of a single witness
RN289: Not killing a human being
RN290: No capital punishment based on circumstantial evidence
RN291: A witness not acting as an advocate
RN292: Not killing a murderer without trial
RN293: Not sparing the life of a pursuer
RN294: Not punishing a person for a sin committed under duress
RN295: Not accepting ransom from an unwitting murderer
RN296: Not accepting ransom from a willful murderer
RN297: Not neglecting to save the life of an Israelite in danger
RN298: Not leaving obstacles on public or private domain
RN299: Not giving misleading advice
RN300: Not inflicting excessive corporal punishment
RN301: Not to bear tales
RN302: Not to hate another Jew
RN303: Not to put another to shame
RN304: Not to take vengeance on another
RN305: Not to bear a grudge
RN306: Not to take the entire bird's nest (mother and young)
RN307: Not to shave the scall (skin lesion)
RN308: Not to cut or cauterize signs of leprosy
RN309: Not ploughing a valley where Eglah Arufah (heifer's neck broken) was done
RN310: Not permitting a sorcerer to live
RN311: Not taking bridegroom from home during first year
RN312: Not to differ from traditional authorities
RN313: Not to add to the Written or Oral Law
RN314: Not to detract from the Written or Oral Law
RN315: Not detracting from the Written or Oral law
RN316: Not to curse a ruler
RN317: Not to curse any Israelite
RN318: Not cursing parents
RN319: Not smiting parents
RN320: Not to work on Shabbat
RN321: Not to go beyond city limits on Shabbat
RN322: Not to punish on Shabbat
RN323: Not to work on the first day of Passover
RN324: Not to work on the seventh day of Passover
RN325: Not to work on Atzeret (Shavuot)
RN326: Not to work on Rosh Hashanah
RN327: Not to work on the first day of Sukkot
RN328: Not to work on Shemini Atzeret (eighth day)
RN329: Not to work on Yom Kippur
RN330: Not have relations with one's mother
RN331: Not have relations with one's father's wife
RN332: Not have relations with one's sister
RN333: Not have relations with daughter of father's wife if sister
RN334: Not have relations with one's son's daughter
RN335: Not have relations with one's daughter's daughter
RN336: Not have relations with one's daughter
RN337: Not have relations with a woman and her daughter
RN338: Not have relations with a woman and her son's daughter
RN339: Not have relations with a woman and her daughter's daughter
RN340: Not have relations with one's father's sister
RN341: Not have relations with one's mother's sister
RN342: Not have relations with wife of father's brother
RN343: Not have relations with one's son's wife
RN344: Not have relations with brother's wife
RN345: Not have relations with sister of wife (during her lifetime)
RN346: Not to have relations with a menstruant
RN347: Not to have relations with another man's wife
RN348: Men may not lie with beasts
RN349: Women may not lie with beasts
RN350: A man may not lie carnally with another man
RN351: A man may not lie carnally with his father
RN352: A man may not lie carnally with his father's brother
RN353: Not to be intimate with a kinswoman
RN354: A mamzer (bastard) may not have relations with a Jewess
RN355: Not having relations with a woman without marriage
RN356: Not remarrying one's divorced wife after she has remarried
RN357: Not having relations with woman subject to Levirate marriage
RN358: Not divorcing woman he has raped and been compelled to marry
RN359: Not divorcing a woman after falsely bringing evil name on her
RN360: A man incapable of procreation not to marry a Jewess
RN361: Not to castrate a man or beast
RN362: Not appointing a non-Israelite born King
RN363: A king not owning many horses
RN364: A king not taking many wives
RN365: A king not amassing great personal wealth

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