The TruthQuest Divisions found in Torah.

I. Conquest of Canaan Laws. (10-15)

(Retired after Joshua)

Example Deut 7:2-26 “…thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them…But thus, shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire…thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.”

Deuteronomy 7

• Deut 7:2 — “…thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them…”
• Deut 7:5 — “…ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.”
• Deut 7:16 — “…thine eye shall have no pity upon them…”
• Deut 7:25 — “…thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee…”
• Deut 7:26 — “…neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house…”

Deuteronomy 12

• Deut 12:2 — “…ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations… served their gods…”
• Deut 12:3 — “…ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire…”

Deuteronomy 20 (Canaan‑specific commands only)

• Deut 20:16 — “…of the cities of these people… thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth.”
• Deut 20:17 — “…thou shalt utterly destroy them…”
• Deut 20:18 — “…that they teach you not to do after all their abominations…”

Deuteronomy 9

• Deut 9:3 — “…thou shalt drive them out, and destroy them quickly…”

Deuteronomy 31

• Deut 31:3 — “…he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them…”

Numbers 33

• Num 33:52 — “…ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land… destroy all their pictures… and quite pluck down all their high places.”
• Num 33:53 — “…ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein…”

Exodus 23

• Ex 23:23 — “…I will cut them off.”
• Ex 23:24 — “…thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.”
• Ex 23:27 — “…I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.”
• Ex 23:31 — “…thou shalt drive them out before thee.”

Exodus 34

• Ex 34:12 — “…take heed… lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land…”
• Ex 34:13 — “…ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves.”

Total Count: 18–20 laws

(Depending on how granular you want to treat repeated altar‑destruction commands.)

II. High Priest Laws (12-15)

Example Lev 16:15 “Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering… and bring his blood within the vail… and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat.”

Leviticus 21 — Personal Restrictions

• Lev 21:10 — “…the priest that is chief among his brethren… shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes.”
• Lev 21:11 — “…neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother.”
• Lev 21:12 — “…neither shall he go out of the sanctuary… for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him.”
• Lev 21:13 — “…he shall take a wife in her virginity.”
• Lev 21:14 — “…a widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take…”
• Lev 21:15 — “…neither shall he profane his seed among his people…”

Leviticus 16 — Day of Atonement Duties

• Lev 16:3 — “…thus shall Aaron come into the holy place…”
• Lev 16:4 — “…he shall put on the holy linen coat…”
• Lev 16:11 — “…Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering…”
• Lev 16:12 — “…he shall take a censer full of burning coals…”
• Lev 16:14 — “…he shall sprinkle of the blood with his finger upon the mercy seat…”
• Lev 16:15 — “…then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering… and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat…”
• Lev 16:17 — “…there shall be no man in the tabernacle… when he goeth in to make an atonement…”
• Lev 16:23 — “…Aaron shall come into the tabernacle… and put off the linen garments…”
• Lev 16:24 — “…he shall wash his flesh with water… and put on his garments…”
• Lev 16:27 — “…the bullock and the goat… shall be carried forth without the camp…”

Leviticus 22 — Heightened Purity Requirements

(These apply to all priests, but are intensified for the High Priest’s role.)

• Lev 22:2 — “…that they separate themselves from the holy things…”
• Lev 22:3 — “…the soul that toucheth any unclean thing… shall be cut off…”
• Lev 22:9 — “…they shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it…”

Exodus 28–29 — High Priest Garments & Consecration

• Ex 28:2 — “…thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother…”
• Ex 28:29 — “…Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate…”
• Ex 28:30 — “…thou shalt put in the breastplate… the Urim and the Thummim…”
• Ex 28:35 — “…his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place…”
• Ex 28:36 — “…thou shalt make a plate of pure gold… HOLINESS TO THE LORD.”
• Ex 29:7 — “…thou shalt take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head…”
• Ex 29:29 — “…the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons’ after him…”

Estimated Count: 12–15 High Priest Laws

(Depending on how granular you treat garment‑related commands.)

III. Levitical Priesthood Laws (20-25)

Example Deut17:9 “Thou shalt come unto the priests of the Levites

A. Judicial & Teaching Authority

• Deut 17:9 — “Thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites…”
• Deut 17:10 — “…thou shalt do according to the sentence… which they shall shew thee…”
• Deut 17:11 — “…according to the law which they shall teach thee…”
• Deut 21:5 — “…by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried.”

B. Priestly Purity Requirements

• Lev 21:1 — “…there shall none be defiled for the dead among his people…”
• Lev 21:4 — “…he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people…”
• Lev 21:5 — “…they shall not make baldness upon their head…”
• Lev 21:6 — “…they shall be holy unto their God…”
• Lev 21:7 — “…they shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane…”
• Lev 21:8 — “…thou shalt sanctify him… for he offereth the bread of thy God.”

C. Priestly Food & Holy Things

• Lev 22:6 — “…the soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even…”
• Lev 22:7 — “…when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things…”
• Lev 22:10 — “…there shall no stranger eat of the holy thing…”
• Lev 22:11 — “…if the priest buy any soul with his money… he shall eat of it.”
• Lev 22:12 — “…if the priest’s daughter be married unto a stranger, she may not eat…”
• Lev 22:13 — “…if the priest’s daughter be a widow… she shall eat of her father’s meat…”
• Lev 22:14 (daughter restitution clause — distinct command)

D. Priestly Service Requirements

• Num 18:1 — “…thou and thy sons… shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary…”
• Num 18:2 — “…thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi… that they may be joined unto thee…”
• Num 18:3 — “…they shall keep thy charge… but they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary…”
• Num 18:5 — “…ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary…”
• Num 18:7 — “…thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office…”
• Num 18:8 — “…I have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings…”
• Num 18:9 — “…this shall be thine of the most holy things…”
• Num 18:20 — “…thou shalt have no inheritance in their land…”
• Num 18:23 — “…the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle…”

E. Priestly Portions & Support

• Deut 18:1 — “…the priests the Levites… shall eat the offerings of the LORD…”
• Deut 18:3 — “…this shall be the priest’s due from the people…”
• Deut 18:4 — “…the firstfruit of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil…”
• Deut 18:5 — “…to stand to minister in the name of the LORD…”
• Deut 18:6 — “…if a Levite come… he shall minister…”
• Deut 18:8 — “…they shall have like portions to eat…”

F. Priestly Inspection Duties

• Lev 13:2 — “…he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests…”
• Lev 13:3 — “…the priest shall look on the plague…”
• Lev 13:8 — “…the priest shall pronounce him unclean…”
• Lev 13:13 — “…the priest shall pronounce him clean…”
• Lev 14:2 — “…he shall be brought unto the priest…”
• Lev 14:3 — “…the priest shall go forth out of the camp…”
• Lev 14:48 — “…the priest shall pronounce the house clean…”
• Lev 14:57 (summary command — “to teach when it is unclean and when it is clean”)

G. Priestly Blessing

• Num 6:23 — “…thus shall ye bless the children of Israel…”
• Num 6:24–26 — “The LORD bless thee, and keep thee…”

Count: 31 Levitical Priesthood Laws

(Depending on how granular you treat inspection‑related verses.)

IV. Laws for the Physical Temple (20-30)

Example Ex 25:8–9 “Let them make me a sanctuary… according to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle…”

A. Command to Build the Sanctuary

• Ex 25:8 — “Let them make me a sanctuary…”
• Ex 25:9 — “…according to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle…”

B. Ark of the Covenant

• Ex 25:10 — “And they shall make an ark of shittim wood…”
• Ex 25:11 — “…thou shalt overlay it with pure gold…”
• Ex 25:12 — “…cast four rings of gold for it…”
• Ex 25:13 — “…make staves of shittim wood…”
• Ex 25:14 — “…put the staves into the rings…”
• Ex 25:16 — “…thou shalt put into the ark the testimony…”
• Ex 25:17 — “…thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold…”
• Ex 25:18 — “…make two cherubims of gold…”

C. Table of Showbread

• Ex 25:23 — “Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood…”
• Ex 25:24 — “…overlay it with pure gold…”
• Ex 25:25 — “…make unto it a border…”
• Ex 25:29 — “…thou shalt make the dishes thereof…”
• Ex 25:30 — “…thou shalt set upon the table shewbread…”

D. Golden Lampstand (Menorah)

• Ex 25:31 — “Thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold…”
• Ex 25:32 — “…six branches shall come out of the sides…”
• Ex 25:37 — “…they shall light the lamps thereof…”

E. Tabernacle Structure

• Ex 26:1 — “Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains…”
• Ex 26:6 — “…thou shalt make fifty taches of gold…”
• Ex 26:7 — “…thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair…”
• Ex 26:14 — “…thou shalt make a covering for the tent…”
• Ex 26:15 — “…thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle…”
• Ex 26:30 — “…thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion…”
• Ex 26:33 — “…thou shalt hang up the vail…”
• Ex 26:34 — “…thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark…”

F. Altar of Burnt Offering

• Ex 27:1 — “Thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood…”
• Ex 27:2 — “…overlay it with brass…”
• Ex 27:3 — “…thou shalt make his pans, and his shovels…”
• Ex 27:4 — “…a grate of network of brass…”
• Ex 27:6 — “…thou shalt make staves for the altar…”

G. Court of the Tabernacle

• Ex 27:9 — “Thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle…”
• Ex 27:16 — “…the gate of the court shall be an hanging…”

H. Oil for the Lamp

• Ex 27:20 — “…command the children of Israel, that they bring pure oil olive…”
• Ex 27:21 — “…Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning…”

I. Priestly Garments (Physical Items Only)

(Not the priestly laws — only the construction commands.)

• Ex 28:4 — “…these are the garments which they shall make…”
• Ex 28:6 — “…they shall make the ephod of gold…”
• Ex 28:8 — “…the curious girdle…”
• Ex 28:15 — “…thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment…”
• Ex 28:31 — “…thou shalt make the robe of the ephod…”
• Ex 28:36 — “…thou shalt make a plate of pure gold…”

J. Altar of Incense

• Ex 30:1 — “Thou shalt make an altar to burn incense…”
• Ex 30:3 — “…overlay it with pure gold…”
• Ex 30:6 — “…thou shalt put it before the vail…”

K. Bronze Laver

• Ex 30:18 — “Thou shalt also make a laver of brass…”
• Ex 30:19 — “…Aaron and his sons shall wash…”

L. Holy Anointing Oil

• Ex 30:23 — “…take thou also unto thee principal spices…”
• Ex 30:25 — “…thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment…”

M. Incense Formula

• Ex 30:34 — “…take unto thee sweet spices…”
• Ex 30:35 — “…thou shalt make it a perfume…”

Total Physical Temple Laws: 20–30

V. The Daily Requirements are Requirements that Torah commands that activate on an ordinary, non‑Sabbath, non‑festival day.

Example Deut 7:11 11″Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them”.

A. Daily Covenant Obedience

• Deut 7:11 — “Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments… which I command thee this day, to do them.”
• Deut 10:12 — “What doth the LORD thy God require of thee… to walk in all his ways…”
• Deut 11:22 — “If ye shall diligently keep all these commandments… to walk in all his ways…”

B. Daily Love & Loyalty to God

• Deut 6:5 — “Thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart…”
• Deut 10:20 — “Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve…”

C. Daily Remembrance & Words

• Deut 6:6 — “These words… shall be in thine heart.”
• Deut 6:7 — “…thou shalt teach them diligently… when thou sittest… walkest… liest down… risest up.”
• Deut 11:18 — “…lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul…”

D. Daily Symbols of Covenant Identity

• Deut 6:8 — “Bind them for a sign upon thine hand…”
• Deut 6:9 — “Write them upon the posts of thy house…”
• Num 15:39 — “…ye shall look upon the fringe, and remember all the commandments…”

E. Daily Ethical Conduct

• Lev 19:13 — “Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour…”
• Lev 19:14 — “Thou shalt not curse the deaf…”
• Lev 19:15 — “Thou shalt do no unrighteousness in judgment…”
• Lev 19:16 — “Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer…”
• Lev 19:17 — “Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart…”
• Lev 19:18 — “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself…”

F. Daily Honesty & Integrity

• Lev 19:35 — “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight…”
• Lev 19:36 — “Just balances, just weights… shall ye have.”

G. Daily Purity Maintenance

• Lev 15:31 — “Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness…”
• Lev 11:43 — “Ye shall not make yourselves abominable…”
• Lev 11:44 — “Sanctify yourselves… be ye holy…”

H. Daily Food Requirements (Eat Kosher)

1. Basic Rule for Meat

• Lev 11:3 — “Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud… that shall ye eat.”

Summary for students:

• Clean animals: more than 10 listed
• Unclean animals: more than 20 listed → See Division VIII: Kosher Dietary Laws — “Meats” section (Full list of species: more than 30 total)

2. Basic Rule for Fish

• Lev 11:9 — “These shall ye eat… whatsoever hath fins and scales…”

Summary for students:

• Clean fish: more than 20 listed
• Unclean fish: more than 20 implied (all without fins/scales) → See Division VIII: Kosher Dietary Laws — “Fish” section (Full list: more than 40 total when counted by species groups)

Full species lists are located under Division VIII (Kosher Dietary Laws). Daily Requirements only summarize the basic rules and species counts.

3. Daily Blood Prohibition

• Lev 17:10 — “No soul… shall eat blood…”

4. Daily Carcass / Terefah Rule

• Lev 17:15 — “He that eateth of that which died of itself… shall wash his clothes…”

5. Daily Fat Prohibition

• Lev 3:17 — “Ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.”

6. Daily Separation of Meat & Milk

• Ex 23:19 — “Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.”
• Ex 34:26 — “Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.”
• Deut 14:21 — “Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.”

(Three separate commands — counted individually.)

Daily Food Requirement Count (for this section only): 7 laws

But these 7 laws point to:

• 30+ meat species laws
• 40+ fish species laws
• 50+ creeping‑thing laws
• 50+ contamination laws
• 20+ vessel‑purity laws
• 10+ blood/fat laws

Which is why breakfast alone can trigger 300+ Torah compliance points.

I. Daily Household Boundaries

• Deut 22:8 — “When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement…”
• Deut 23:12 — “Thou shalt have a place also without the camp…”
• Deut 23:13 — “…thou shalt have a paddle… and shalt cover that which cometh from thee.”

J. Daily Justice & Fairness

• Deut 24:14 — “Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant…”
• Deut 24:15 — “At his day thou shalt give him his hire…”

K. Daily Compassion

• Deut 22:1 — “Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox… and hide thyself…”
• Deut 22:2 — “…thou shalt restore it to him again.”
• Deut 22:3 — “…thou mayest not hide thyself.”

L. Daily Speech Requirements

• Ex 23:1 — “Thou shalt not raise a false report…”
• Ex 23:2 — “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil…”

M. Daily Work & Labor

• Ex 20:9 — “Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work…”

Total Daily Requirements: 40–500

VI. The Daily Prohibitions

Example Lev 19:11 “Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.”

(Commands forbidding actions on an ordinary, non‑Sabbath, non‑festival day)

A. Prohibitions Against Idolatry & False Worship

• Ex 20:3 — “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
• Ex 20:4 — “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image…”
• Ex 20:5 — “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them…”
• Deut 12:30 — “Take heed… that thou be not snared by following them…”

B. Prohibitions Against Misusing God’s Name

• Ex 20:7 — “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain.”
• Lev 19:12 — “Ye shall not swear by my name falsely…”

C. Prohibitions Against Injustice

• Lev 19:15 — “Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor…”
• Deut 16:19 — “Thou shalt not wrest judgment…”
• Deut 24:17 — “Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger…”

D. Prohibitions Against Oppression

• Ex 22:21 — “Thou shalt neither vex a stranger…”
• Ex 22:22 — “Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.”
• Lev 25:17 — “Ye shall not oppress one another…”

E. Prohibitions Against Theft & Dishonesty

• Lev 19:11 — “Ye shall not steal…”
• Lev 19:11 — “…neither deal falsely…”
• Lev 19:11 — “…neither lie one to another.”
• Lev 19:13 — “Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour…”
• Deut 25:14 — “Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures…”

F. Prohibitions Against Harmful Speech

• Lev 19:16 — “Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer…”
• Ex 23:1 — “Thou shalt not raise a false report…”
• Ex 23:2 — “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil…”

G. Prohibitions Against Hatred & Vengeance

• Lev 19:17 — “Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart…”
• Lev 19:18 — “Thou shalt not avenge…”
• Lev 19:18 — “…nor bear any grudge…”

H. Prohibitions Against Sexual Immorality

(Daily moral prohibitions — not the full sexual‑law division.)

• Lev 18:20 — “Thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife…”
• Lev 18:22 — “Thou shalt not lie with mankind…”
• Lev 18:23 — “Neither shalt thou lie with any beast…”

I. Prohibitions Against Unclean Practices

• Lev 11:43 — “Ye shall not make yourselves abominable…”
• Lev 11:44 — “Neither shall ye defile yourselves…”
• Lev 15:31 — “Thus shall ye separate… from their uncleanness…”

J. Prohibitions Against Cruelty

• Deut 22:6 — “Thou shalt not take the dam with the young.”
• Deut 25:4 — “Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.”

K. Prohibitions Against Coveting

• Ex 20:17 — “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house…”
• Ex 20:17 — “…thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife…”

Total Daily Prohibitions: 40–60

(Depending on how granular you treat speech‑ethics‑purity prohibitions.)

VII. The Separation Laws

(Commands requiring Israel to remain distinct from the nations and their practices)

Example Lev 20:26 “I am the LORD… and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.”

A. Separation From Other Peoples

• Lev 20:26 — “I… have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.”
• Lev 20:24 — “I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.”

B. Separation From Idolatrous Nations

• Deut 7:2 — “Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them.”
• Deut 7:3 — “Neither shalt thou make marriages with them…”
• Deut 7:4 — “For they will turn away thy son from following me…”
• Deut 7:5 — “Ye shall destroy their altars… break down their images… cut down their groves… burn their graven images…”
• Deut 7:16 — “Thine eye shall have no pity upon them…”
• Deut 7:25 — “Thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them…”
• Deut 7:26 — “Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house…”

C. Separation From Pagan Worship Practices

• Deut 12:2 — “Ye shall utterly destroy all the places… wherein the nations served their gods.”
• Deut 12:3 — “Ye shall overthrow their altars… break their pillars… burn their groves…”
• Deut 12:30 — “Take heed… that thou be not snared by following them…”
• Deut 12:31 — “Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God…”

D. Separation From Pagan Customs

• Lev 18:3 — “After the doings of the land of Egypt… and of Canaan… shall ye not do.”
• Lev 18:24 — “Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things…”
• Lev 18:30 — “Keep mine ordinance… that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs…”

E. Separation From Occult Practices

• Deut 18:10 — “There shall not be found among you any… that useth divination…”
• Deut 18:11 — “Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits…”
• Deut 18:12 — “For all that do these things are an abomination…”

F. Separation From Mixed Worship

• Ex 23:13 — “Make no mention of the name of other gods…”
• Ex 23:24 — “Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them…”
• Ex 23:32 — “Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.”
• Ex 23:33 — “They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me…”

G. Separation Through Holiness

• Lev 11:44 — “Ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves…”
• Lev 11:45 — “Ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”
• Lev 19:2 — “Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.”

H. Separation Through Dietary Distinction

(Not the full Kosher list — only the separation principle.)

• Lev 20:25 — “Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean…”
• Lev 11:47 — “To make a difference between the unclean and the clean…”

I. Separation From Mixed Agriculture & Mixtures

(Identity‑marker separation, not agricultural division.)

• Lev 19:19 — “Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind…”
• Lev 19:19 — “Thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed…”

Total Separation Laws: 20–25

(Depending on how granular you treat repeated altar‑destruction and mixture commands.)

VIII. Kosher Dietary Laws

Example Lev 11:46–47 “To make a difference between the unclean and the clean…”

A. Clean & Unclean Land Animals (Beasts)

Basic Rule

• Lev 11:3 — “Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud… that shall ye eat.”

Unclean Land Animals

• Lev 11:4 — “The camel… because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof…”
• Lev 11:5 — “The coney… because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof…”
• Lev 11:6 — “The hare… because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof…”
• Lev 11:7 — “The swine… though he divide the hoof… yet he cheweth not the cud…”

Carcass Prohibition

• Lev 11:8 — “Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcass shall ye not touch…”

Species Count for Students:

• Clean land animals: more than 10
• Unclean land animals: more than 20 → Full list under Division VIII — “Meats”

B. Clean & Unclean Sea Creatures (Fish)

Basic Rule

• Lev 11:9 — “These shall ye eat… whatsoever hath fins and scales…”

Unclean Sea Creatures

• Lev 11:10 — “All that have not fins and scales… they shall be an abomination…”

Species Count for Students:

• Clean fish: more than 20
• Unclean fish: more than 20 → Full list under Division VIII — “Fish”

C. Clean & Unclean Birds

Unclean Birds (Listed Individually)

• Lev 11:13–19 — “The eagle… the ossifrage… the osprey… the vulture… the kite… the raven… the owl… the nighthawk… the cuckow… the hawk… the little owl… the cormorant… the great owl… the swan… the pelican… the gier eagle… the stork… the heron… the lapwing… the bat.”

Species Count for Students:

• Unclean birds: more than 20
• Clean birds: all not listed → Full list under Division VIII — “Birds”

D. Clean & Unclean Insects

Clean Insects

• Lev 11:22 — “Even these… the locust… the bald locust… the beetle… the grasshopper…”

Unclean Insects

• Lev 11:20 — “All fowls that creep… shall be an abomination…”

Species Count for Students:

• Clean insects: 4
• Unclean insects: dozens → Full list under Division VIII — “Insects”

E. Creeping Things (Always Unclean)

• Lev 11:29–30 — “The weasel… the mouse… the tortoise… the ferret… the chameleon… the lizard… the snail… the mole…”
• Lev 11:41 — “Every creeping thing… shall be an abomination.”
• Lev 11:42 — “Whatsoever goeth upon the belly… or hath many feet… ye shall not eat…”

Species Count: more than 50 → Full list under Division VIII — “Creeping Things”

F. Carcass & Touch Contamination

• Lev 11:24 — “Whosoever toucheth the carcass… shall be unclean until the even.”
• Lev 11:25 — “Whosoever beareth ought of the carcass… shall wash his clothes…”
• Lev 11:27 — “Whoso toucheth their carcass… shall be unclean…”
• Lev 11:31 — “Whosoever doth touch them… shall be unclean…”

G. Vessel Contamination Laws

• Lev 11:32 — “Upon whatsoever any of them… doth fall… it shall be unclean…”
• Lev 11:33 — “Every earthen vessel… whatsoever is in it shall be unclean… and ye shall break it.”
• Lev 11:34 — “Of all meat which may be eaten… if any water be put upon it… it shall be unclean.”
• Lev 11:35 — “Oven or ranges… shall be broken down… they are unclean.”
• Lev 11:36 — “A fountain or pit… shall be clean…”
• Lev 11:37 — “If any part of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed… it shall be clean.”
• Lev 11:38 — “But if water be put upon the seed… it shall be unclean.”

H. Fat & Blood Prohibitions

• Lev 3:17 — “Ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.”
• Lev 7:23 — “Ye shall eat no manner of fat…”
• Lev 7:26 — “Ye shall eat no manner of blood…”

I. Meat Torn or Dead of Itself

• Ex 22:31 — “Ye shall not eat any flesh that is torn of beasts…”
• Lev 17:15 — “He that eateth that which died of itself… shall wash his clothes…”

J. Milk & Meat Separation

• Ex 23:19 — “Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.”
• Ex 34:26 — “Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.”
• Deut 14:21 — “Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.”

(Three separate commands.)

K. Summary Command

• Lev 11:46–47 — “To make a difference between the unclean and the clean…”

Total Kosher Dietary Laws: 120–150

(Depending on how granular you treat species lists and contamination clauses.)

IX. Sin Offering Laws

Example. Lev 4:27–28 “If any one of the common people sin…”

A. Definition of the Sin (Common People)

• Lev 4:2 — “…if a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments…”
• Lev 4:27 — “If any one of the common people sin through ignorance…”

B. What the Common Person Must Bring

• Lev 4:28 — “He shall bring his offering… a female goat without blemish…”
• Lev 4:32 — “If he bring a lamb for a sin offering… a female without blemish…”

(These are the only two options given for common people.)

C. What the Common Person Must Do

• Lev 4:29 — “He shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering…”
• Lev 4:33 — “He shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering…”

(Two verses, same action — counted separately.)

D. What the Priest Does (NOT listed here)

You are correct: All priestly actions (sprinkling, blood application, burning, eating, disposal) belong in:

• Division II — High Priest Laws
• Division III — Levitical Priesthood Laws
• Division IX — Sin Offering Laws (Priestly Procedures)

So we do not repeat them here.

E. What the Common Person Receives

• Lev 4:31 — “The priest shall make an atonement for him… and it shall be forgiven him.”
• Lev 4:35 — “The priest shall make an atonement for his sin… and it shall be forgiven him.”

(These are the only two forgiveness clauses for common people.)

Total Sin‑Offering Laws for Common People: 6

(Exactly six distinct commands apply to the people themselves.)

Breakdown:

• Definition of sin: 2
• What they must bring: 2
• What they must do: 2
• What they receive: 2

(Lev 4:29 and 4:33 are separate commands because they apply to different animals.)

This is the true, jurisdiction‑specific count for common people.

X. Clothing Laws

Example Deut 22:11 “Thou shalt not wear…wool and linen together”

XI. Educational Laws

Example. Deut 6:7 “…thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children…when thou sittest… when thou walkest… when thou liest down… when thou risest up.””

XII. Civil Justice Laws

Example. Exodus 23:6

“Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.”

XIII Sabbath Laws

Example. Numbers 15:32–35

“…the man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day… the congregation shall stone him with stones…”

XIV. Passover Laws

Example. Leviticus 23:5

The 14th day of the first month.

XV. Unleavened Bread Laws

Example. Leviticus 23:6–8

Seven‑day feast beginning on the 15th day; first and seventh days are holy convocations.

XVI. Firstfruits

Example. Leviticus 23:9–14

The offering of the first sheaf of the barley harvest.

XVII. Feast of Weeks (Pentecost / Shavuot)

Example. Leviticus 23:15–2 Fifty days after Firstfruits; a holy conv.

XVIII. Feast of Trumpets

Example. Leviticus 23:23–25 “… blowing trumpets; a holy conv.

IXX. Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)

Example Leviticus 23:26–32 “…blood sprinkled on the mercy seat.”

XX. Feast of Tabernacles (Booths / Sukkot)

Example Leviticus 23:33–44 Seven‑day feast with an eighth‑day assembly (Shemini Atzeret).

XXI. Agricultural & Land Laws

Example. Deuteronomy 22:10 “Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

XXII. Wedding Laws

Example Deut 22:14-21 “…tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: Then…the men…shall stone her with stones that she die…”

XXIII. Kinsman Redeemer Laws (Levirate)

Example. Deut 25:5 “…her husband’s brother shall go in unto her…”

XXIV. Childbirth Laws

Example. Lev 12:2 “…unclean for seven days…”

XXV. Judicial Procedure Laws

Example. Deut 19:15 “…at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.”

XXVI. Sexual Morality Laws

Example — Lev 18:22 “Thou shalt not lie with mankind…”

XXVII. Kingship Laws

Example. Deut 17:16 “…he shall not multiply horses to himself…”

XXVIII. Warfare Laws (Non‑Canaanite)

Example. Deut 20:10

“When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.”

IXXX. Compassion & Social Care Laws

Example. Deuteronomy 22:4 “Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them…”

XXX. Vow & Oath Laws

Example. Numbers 30:2 “If a man vow a vow unto the LORD… he shall not break his word…”

XXXI Law on premarital sex

Example. Deut 22:28-29 “…the man…shall give the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife…”

XXXII The Decalogue (Ten Commandments)

Example. (See Ex 20:1-17 & Deut 5:6-21)

XXXIII The Remember Laws

Example: Deut 8:18 “Thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth…”

XXXIV. Identity Marker Laws

Example. Deut 6:8 “And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand… and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.”

XXXV. The Capital Punishment Laws

Example. Deut 21:21 (Rebellious Son) “…all the men of his city shall stone him with stones…”

XXXVI. Health & Bodily Discharge Laws

Example. Leviticus 15:2 “…when any man hath a running issue out of his flesh…”

XXXVII. Mikveh; Ritual Cleansing Laws

Example. Leviticus 15:5 “…shall wash…and bathe himself in water…”

XXXVIII. Laws for the (Ger) The Strangers Dwelling Among You

Example. Exodus 12:49 “One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.”

This category covers:

the ger (resident alien)

the toshav (sojourner)

the nokri (foreigner)

the ezrach vs. ger equality clauses

Passover participation rules

sacrificial access rules

justice protections

food restrictions

Sabbath rest inclusion

gleaning rights

equal‑law statements