All 613 Commandments in the Old Testament Law
There are a whole lot more than only 10 Commandments found in the Old Testament, there are 613 Commandments! Below is a list of the 613 mitzvot commandments (mitzvot is plural, mitzvah is singular).
There are both "positive" and "negative" mitzvot (do's and don'ts) which can be divided into 365 Negative Mitzvot (to remind us not to do bad things every day of the year) plus 248 Positive Mitzvot (the number of bones in the human body - for a total of 613. In this way, Hebrews and Jewish people are able to obey the mitzvot with their entire body.
It is important to know that while God gave us many commands to follow, including the famous Ten Commandments, He did not abolish the Law of Moses found in the Torah (the first five Books of the Bible). The following commandments are superceded by the new covenant of grace.
The Law is God’s Divine Instructions in Righteousness
without which man would have NO blueprint for moral, holy living.
Jesus Christ attempted to abolish the rabbinical, man-made opinions and traditions that kept people in bondage. Neither He nor His apostles ever spoke against the Law nor suggested that after Jesus’ death the Torah was to become null and void. The Apostle Paul said, “Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.” (Romans 3:31)
God gave 248 positive Mitzvot / Commandments ("the Do's"), and 365 negative ones ("the Don'ts"). They are as follows:
The 248 Positive Mitzvot / Commandments: "The Do's"
RELATIONSHIP TO GOD
1 Exodus 20:2 - To believe in God.
I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
2 Deuteronomy 6:4 - To acknowledge the Unity of God.
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:
3 Deuteronomy 6:5 - To love God.
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
4 Deuteronomy 6:13 - To fear God.
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
5 Exodus 23:25; Deuteronomy 11:13; 13:4 - To serve God.
And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
6 Deuteronomy 10:20 - To cleave to God.
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
7 Deuteronomy 10:20 - On taking an oath by God's Name.
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
8 Deuteronomy 28:9 - On walking in God's ways.
The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.
9 Leviticus 22:32 - On Sanctifying God's Name.
Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the Lord which hallow you,
TORAH
10 Deuteronomy 6:7 - On reciting the Sh'ma each morning and evening.
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
11 Deuteronomy 6:7 - On studying and teaching Torah.
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
12 Deuteronomy 6:8 - On binding Tefillin on the head.
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
13 Deuteronomy 6:8 - On binding Tefillin on the hand.
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
14 Numbers 15:38 - On making Tzitzit with thread of blue, garments corners.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:
15 Deuteronomy 6:9 - On affixing a Mezuzah to doorposts and gates.
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
16 Deuteronomy 31:12 - On Assembling each 7th year to hear the Torah read.
Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
17 Deuteronomy 17:18 - On that a king must write a copy of Torah for himself.
And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
18 Deuteronomy 31:19 - On that everyone should have a Torah scroll.
Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
19 Deuteronomy 8:10 - On praising God after eating, Grace after meals.
When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
TEMPLE AND THE PRIESTS
20 Exodus 25:8 - On building a Sanctuary / (Tabernacle / Temple) for God.
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
21 Leviticus 19:30 - On respecting the Sanctuary.
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
22 Numbers 18:4 - On guarding the Sanctuary.
And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
23 Numbers 18:23 - On Levitical services in the Tabernacle.
But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
24 Exodus 30:19 - On Cohanim (Priests) washing hands and feet before entering Temple.
For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat;
25 Exodus 27:21 - On kindling the Menorah by the Cohanim (Priests).
In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the Lord: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
26 Numbers 6:23 - On the Cohanim (Priests) blessing Israel.
Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,
27 Exodus 25:30 - On the Showbread before the Ark.
And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.
28 Exodus 30:7 - On Burning the Incense on the Golden Altar twice daily.
And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
29 Leviticus 6:13 - On the perpetual fire on the Altar.
The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.
30 Leviticus 6:10 - On removing the ashes from the Altar.
And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
31 Numbers 5:2 - On removing unclean persons from the camp.
Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:
32 Leviticus 21:8 - On honoring the Cohanim (Priests).
Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the Lord, which sanctify you, am holy.
33 Exodus 28:2 - On the garments of the Cohanim (Priests).
And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty.
34 Numbers 7:9 - On Cohanim (Priests) bearing the Ark on their shoulders.
But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.
35 Exodus 30:31 - On the holy anointing oil.
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
36 Deuteronomy 18:6-8 - On the Cohanim (Priests) ministering in rotation / watches.
And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the Lord shall choose; Then he shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the Lord. They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
37 Leviticus 21:2-3 - On the Cohanim (Priests) being defiled for dead relatives.
But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother. And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
38 Leviticus 21:13 - On that Cohen haGadol (High Priest) may only marry a virgin.
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
don't forget BREAK ONE BREAK THEM ALL.... IAH Spying and Elijah are insisting we do the law of moses.... cont... many more to go cont
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