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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”

A. Tassels / Fringes (Identity Marker)

Num 15:38 — “Bid them… that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments…”
Num 15:39 — “It shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it…”
Deut 22:12 — “Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture…”

B. Prohibition of Mixed Fabrics

Lev 19:19 — “Thou shalt not… wear a garment mingled of linen and woolen.”
Deut 22:11 — “Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.”

C. Prohibition of Cross‑Dressing

Deut 22:5 — “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man… neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment…”

D. Priestly Garments (Physical Construction Only)

(These are clothing‑construction commands, not priestly‑service laws.)

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…”
Ex 28:39 — “Thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen…”
Ex 28:40 — “For Aaron’s sons thou shalt make coats… girdles… bonnets…”

(These belong here because they are clothing‑construction laws, not priestly‑ritual laws.)

E. Priestly Linen Requirements

Lev 6:10 — “The priest shall put on his linen garment…”
Lev 16:4 — “He shall put on the holy linen coat… linen breeches… linen girdle… linen mitre…”

(Again: clothing items only — the ritual actions belong in other divisions.)

F. Prohibition of Tearing Holy Garments

Lev 21:10 — “The priest… shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes.”

(This is a clothing‑law restriction, not a ritual law.)

Total Clothing Laws: 15–20

(Depending on how granular you treat individual priestly garment components.)

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.”

A. Teach the Commandments to Children

Deut 6:7 — “Thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children…”
Deut 11:19 — “Ye shall teach them your children…”

B. Speak of the Commandments Daily

Deut 6:7 — “…when thou sittest… walkest… liest down… risest up.”
Deut 11:19 — “…when thou sittest… walkest… liest down… risest up.”

C. Keep the Words in the Heart

Deut 6:6 — “These words… shall be in thine heart.”
Deut 11:18 — “Lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul…”

D. Bind the Words as Signs

Deut 6:8 — “Bind them for a sign upon thine hand…”
Deut 11:18 — “…as frontlets between your eyes.”

E. Write the Words on the House

Deut 6:9 — “Write them upon the posts of thy house…”
Deut 11:20 — “Write them upon the door posts of thine house…”

F. Public Reading of the Law

Deut 31:11 — “Thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.”
Deut 31:12 — “Gather the people together… that they may hear… and learn…”
Deut 31:13 — “Their children… may hear, and learn to fear the LORD…”

G. The King Must Write a Copy of the Law

Deut 17:18 — “He shall write him a copy of this law in a book…”
Deut 17:19 — “He shall read therein all the days of his life…”

H. Moses’ Command to Teach the Song

Deut 31:19 — “Write ye this song… teach it the children of Israel…”
Deut 31:22 — “Moses wrote this song… and taught it…”

I. Levites Must Keep the Law Beside the Ark

Deut 31:26 — “Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark…”

Total Educational Laws: 15–20

(Depending on how granular you treat repeated “teach,” “write,” and “bind” commands.)

XII. Civil Justice Laws

(Commands governing fairness, restitution, liability, damages, and judicial equity)

Example. Exodus 23:6

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

A. Do Not Pervert Justice

Ex 23:6 — “Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.”
Lev 19:15 — “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment…”
Deut 16:19 — “Thou shalt not wrest judgment…”
Deut 24:17 — “Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger…”

B. Do Not Take Bribes

Ex 23:8 — “Thou shalt take no gift… for a gift blindeth the wise…”
Deut 16:19 — “…neither take a gift…”

C. Equal Justice for All

Lev 19:15 — “Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor… nor honor the person of the mighty.”
Deut 1:17 — “Ye shall not respect persons in judgment… ye shall hear the small as well as the great.”

D. Judges Must Judge Righteously

Deut 16:18 — “Judges and officers shalt thou make… and they shall judge the people with just judgment.”
Deut 1:16 — “Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously…”

E. Restitution for Theft

Ex 22:1 — “If a man shall steal an ox… he shall restore five oxen…”
Ex 22:4 — “If the theft be certainly found… he shall restore double.”
Ex 22:7 — “If a man deliver unto his neighbour money… and it be stolen… the thief… shall pay double.”

F. Liability for Damage

Ex 21:28 — “If an ox gore a man… the ox shall be stoned…”
Ex 21:29 — “If the ox were wont to push… and he hath not kept him in…”
Ex 21:33 — “If a man shall open a pit… and not cover it…”
Ex 21:35 — “If one man’s ox hurt another’s… they shall sell the live ox… and divide the money…”

G. Property Protection

Ex 22:5 — “If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten… he shall make restitution…”
Ex 22:6 — “If fire break out… he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.”

H. Safekeeping & Trust Laws

Ex 22:10 — “If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass… to keep…”
Ex 22:11 — “An oath of the LORD shall be between them both…”
Ex 22:12 — “If it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution…”

I. Borrowing & Lending Liability

Ex 22:14 — “If a man borrow ought of his neighbour… and it be hurt… he shall surely make it good.”
Ex 22:15 — “If it be a hired thing, it came for his hire.”

J. Witness Requirements

Deut 19:15 — “At the mouth of two witnesses… shall the matter be established.”
Deut 19:16 — “If a false witness rise up…”
Deut 19:18 — “The judges shall make diligent inquisition…”

K. Penalty for False Witness

Deut 19:19 — “Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother.”

Total Civil Justice Laws: 30–40

(Depending on how granular you treat restitution, liability, and witness clauses.)

XIII Sabbath Laws

Example. Numbers 15:32–35

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

A. The Command to Rest

Ex 20:10 — “The seventh day is the sabbath… in it thou shalt not do any work…”
Ex 23:12 — “Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest…”
Ex 31:15 — “Six days may work be done… but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest…”

B. No Work by Anyone in the Household

Deut 5:14 — “Thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant… nor thine ox, nor thine ass…”
Ex 20:10 — “…nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates…”

C. No Kindling of Fire

Ex 35:3 — “Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.”

D. No Gathering or Preparing Food

Ex 16:23 — “Bake that which ye will bake today… and that which remaineth… keep until the morning.”
Ex 16:26 — “Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day… there shall be none.”

E. No Traveling Beyond the Boundary

Ex 16:29 — “Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.”

F. The Sabbath as a Sign

Ex 31:13 — “Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you…”
Ex 31:17 — “It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever…”

G. Penalty for Sabbath Violation

Ex 31:14 — “Every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death…”
Ex 31:15 — “…whosoever doeth any work… shall surely be put to death.”

H. Example Case: The Man Gathering Sticks

(Your chosen example — placed exactly where you want it.)

Num 15:32–35 — “…the man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day… the congregation shall stone him with stones…”

Total Sabbath Laws: 10–12

(Depending on how granular you treat the “no work” clauses.)

XIV. Passover Laws

Example. Leviticus 23:5

The 14th day of the first month.

A. The Date of Passover

Ex 12:6 — “Ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month…”
Lev 23:5 — “In the fourteenth day… is the LORD’s passover.”
Num 9:2 — “Let the children of Israel keep the passover at his appointed season.”

B. The Passover Lamb Requirements

Ex 12:3 — “They shall take to them every man a lamb…”
Ex 12:5 — “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year…”
Ex 12:46 — “Neither shall ye break a bone thereof.”

C. Household Participation

Ex 12:4 — “If the household be too little for the lamb… let him and his neighbour… take it…”

D. Blood Application (Temple‑Era Only)

Ex 12:7 — “They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts…”
Ex 12:22 — “Ye shall take a bunch of hyssop… dip it in the blood… strike the lintel…”

(This is the original Exodus command; later generations must bring the lamb to the sanctuary.)

E. Eating Requirements

Ex 12:8 — “They shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire…”
Ex 12:9 — “Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water…”
Ex 12:10 — “Ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning…”
Ex 12:11 — “Thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded…”

F. No Leaven During Passover

Ex 12:15 — “Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread…”
Ex 12:19 — “Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses…”
Ex 13:7 — “Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days…”

G. No Work on the First and Seventh Days

Ex 12:16 — “In the first day… and in the seventh day… no manner of work shall be done…”

H. Location Requirement (Temple‑Era Forward)

Deut 16:5 — “Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates…”
Deut 16:6 — “But at the place which the LORD shall choose… thou shalt sacrifice the passover…”

(This is the jurisdictional shift: Passover becomes Temple‑dependent.)

I. Night‑Time Eating Requirement

Deut 16:7 — “Thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD shall choose…”

J. No Bone Breaking

Ex 12:46 — “Neither shall ye break a bone thereof.”
Num 9:12 — “They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it…”

K. Who May NOT Eat Passover

Ex 12:43 — “There shall no stranger eat thereof.”
Ex 12:45 — “A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.”

L. Who MAY Eat Passover (Only After Circumcision)

Ex 12:48 — “When a stranger… will keep the passover… let all his males be circumcised…”
Ex 12:49 — “One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger…”

M. Penalty for Not Keeping Passover (Israelites Only)

Num 9:13 — “The man that is clean… and forbeareth to keep the passover… that soul shall be cut off…”

N. Second Passover (Pesach Sheni)

Num 9:10 — “If any man… be unclean by reason of a dead body…”
Num 9:11 — “The fourteenth day of the second month… they shall keep it…”
Num 9:12 — “They shall leave none of it unto the morning… nor break any bone…”

Total Passover Laws: 30–40

(Depending on how granular you treat eating, timing, and eligibility clauses.)

XV. Unleavened Bread Laws

Example. Leviticus 23:6–8

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

A. The Dates of Unleavened Bread

Ex 12:15 — “Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread…”
Ex 12:18 — “In the first month… from the fourteenth day… until the one and twentieth day…”
Lev 23:6 — “On the fifteenth day… is the feast of unleavened bread… seven days…”

B. Eat Unleavened Bread for Seven Days

Ex 12:15 — “Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread…”
Ex 13:6 — “Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread…”
Lev 23:6 — “Seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.”

C. Remove Leaven From All Houses

Ex 12:15 — “Whosoever eateth leavened bread… that soul shall be cut off…”
Ex 12:19 — “Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses…”
Ex 13:7 — “There shall no leavened bread be seen with thee… neither shall there be leaven seen with thee…”

D. No Leavened Bread May Be Eaten

Ex 12:20 — “Ye shall eat nothing leavened…”
Ex 13:3 — “There shall no leavened bread be eaten.”

E. Holy Convocations

Ex 12:16 — “In the first day… and in the seventh day… shall be an holy convocation…”
Lev 23:7 — “In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation…”
Lev 23:8 — “In the seventh day is an holy convocation…”

F. No Work on the First and Seventh Days

Ex 12:16 — “No manner of work shall be done in them…”
Lev 23:7 — “Ye shall do no servile work therein.”
Lev 23:8 — “Ye shall do no servile work therein.”

G. Offerings During Unleavened Bread

(Offering procedures belong to the Offering Divisions; here we list only the requirement.)

Num 28:17 — “In the fifteenth day… is the feast… seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.”
Num 28:19 — “Ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire…”

H. Penalty for Eating Leaven

Ex 12:15 — “That soul shall be cut off from Israel…”
Ex 12:19 — “That soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel…”

Total Unleavened Bread Laws: 20–25

(Depending on how granular you treat repeated “no leaven” and “holy convocation” clauses.)

XVI. Firstfruits

Example. Leviticus 23:9–14

A. Bring the Firstfruits of the Land

Ex 23:19 — “The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring…”
Ex 34:26 — “The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring…”

B. Bring the Firstfruits to the Priest

Deut 26:2 — “Thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth… and shalt go unto the priest…”
Deut 26:3 — “Thou shalt go unto the priest… and say unto him…”

C. The Basket Declaration (Land‑Dependent)

Deut 26:5 — “Thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God…”
Deut 26:10 — “I have brought the firstfruits of the land…”
Deut 26:11 — “Thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given thee…”

(This declaration cannot be performed outside the land — it requires inheritance.)

D. The Priest’s Role in Firstfruits

Deut 26:4 — “The priest shall take the basket… and set it down before the altar…”
Lev 23:11 — “He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD… to be accepted for you…”

(These are priestly actions but belong here because they define the firstfruits procedure.)

E. The First Sheaf (Omer) Requirement

Lev 23:10 — “Ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest.”
Lev 23:11 — “He shall wave the sheaf… on the morrow after the sabbath…”

F. No Eating Until the Firstfruits Are Offered

Lev 23:14 — “Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears… until ye have brought an offering…”

G. Firstfruits of Oil, Wine, and Wool

Num 18:12 — “All the best of the oil… wine… wheat… the firstfruits…”
Num 18:13 — “Whatsoever is first ripe… they shall bring unto the LORD…”
Deut 18:4 — “The firstfruits also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil… shalt thou give him.”

H. Firstfruits Belong to the Priests

Num 18:11 — “This is thine… the heave offerings…”
Num 18:12 — “All the best of the oil… wine… wheat…”
Num 18:13 — “Every thing that openeth the matrix… every first ripe… shall be thine.”

Total Firstfruits Laws: 20–25

(Depending on how granular you treat the declaration and priestly actions.)

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.

A. Count Seven Weeks From Firstfruits

Lev 23:15 — “Ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath… seven sabbaths shall be complete.”
Lev 23:16 — “Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days…”

B. Hold a Holy Convocation

Lev 23:21 — “Ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation…”
Num 28:26 — “In the day of the firstfruits… ye shall have an holy convocation…”

C. No Servile Work

Lev 23:21 — “Ye shall do no servile work therein.”
Num 28:26 — “Ye shall do no servile work…”

D. Bring a New Grain Offering

Lev 23:16 — “Ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.”
Lev 23:17 — “Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves… of fine flour… baken with leaven…”

E. Bring Firstfruits of the Wheat Harvest

Ex 34:22 — “Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest.”
Num 28:26 — “In the day of the firstfruits… when ye bring a new meat offering…”

F. Required Offerings for Shavuot

(Offering procedures belong to the Offering Divisions; here we list only the requirements.)

Lev 23:18 — “Ye shall offer… seven lambs… one young bullock… two rams…”
Lev 23:19 — “Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering…”
Lev 23:19 — “…and two lambs… for a sacrifice of peace offerings.”

G. Wave Offerings (Presentation Requirements)

Lev 23:20 — “The priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits…”
Lev 23:20 — “They shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.”

H. A Statute Forever

Lev 23:21 — “It shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings…”

Total Feast of Weeks Laws: 15–20

(Depending on how granular you treat the offering components.)

XVIII. Feast of Trumpets

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

A. The Date of the Feast of Trumpets

Lev 23:24 — “In the seventh month, in the first day of the month…”
Num 29:1 — “In the seventh month, on the first day of the month…”

B. A Memorial of Blowing

Lev 23:24 — “…a memorial of blowing of trumpets…”
Num 29:1 — “…it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.”

C. A Holy Convocation

Lev 23:24 — “Ye shall have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing…”
Num 29:1 — “Ye shall have a holy convocation…”

D. No Servile Work

Lev 23:25 — “Ye shall do no servile work therein.”
Num 29:1 — “Ye shall do no servile work…”

E. Required Offerings

(Offering procedures belong to the Offering Divisions; here we list only the requirement.)

Lev 23:25 — “Ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.”
Num 29:2 — “Ye shall offer a burnt offering…”
Num 29:3–6 — “And their meat offering… and their drink offerings…”

Total Feast of Trumpets Laws: 10–12

(Depending on how granular you treat the offering components.)

IXX. Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)

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

A. The Date of the Day of Atonement

Lev 23:27 — “On the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement…”
Lev 16:29 — “In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month…”

B. A Holy Convocation

Lev 23:27 — “Ye shall have an holy convocation…”

C. Afflict Your Souls (Fasting)

Lev 16:29 — “Ye shall afflict your souls…”
Lev 23:27 — “Ye shall afflict your souls…”
Lev 23:32 — “…ye shall afflict your souls…”

D. No Work at All

Lev 16:29 — “…and do no work at all…”
Lev 23:28 — “Ye shall do no work in that same day…”
Lev 23:30 — “Whatsoever soul… doeth any work… I will destroy…”
Lev 23:31 — “Ye shall do no manner of work…”

E. The High Priest Must Wear Special Linen Garments

(Clothing laws belong to Division X, but these are Yom Kippur‑specific requirements.)

Lev 16:4 — “He shall put on the holy linen coat… linen breeches… linen girdle… linen mitre…”

F. Sin Offerings for the High Priest and the People

(Procedures belong to the Offering Divisions; here we list only the requirements.)

Lev 16:3 — “With a young bullock for a sin offering…”
Lev 16:5 — “Two kids of the goats for a sin offering…”
Lev 16:15 — “He shall kill the goat of the sin offering… for the people…”

G. Blood Application in the Holy of Holies

(This is the core of Yom Kippur.)

Lev 16:14 — “He shall take of the blood… and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat…”
Lev 16:15 — “…and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat.”

H. Atonement for the Sanctuary, Tabernacle, and Altar

Lev 16:16 — “He shall make an atonement for the holy place…”
Lev 16:18 — “He shall go out unto the altar… and make an atonement for it.”
Lev 16:20 — “When he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place…”

I. The Scapegoat (Azazel) Procedure

(Again, only the requirements.)

Lev 16:8 — “Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats…”
Lev 16:10 — “The goat… shall be presented alive… to make an atonement…”
Lev 16:21 — “Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat…”
Lev 16:22 — “The goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities…”

J. Burning of the Sin Offerings Outside the Camp

Lev 16:27 — “The bullock… and the goat… shall be carried forth… and burnt…”

K. Washing Requirements

Lev 16:24 — “He shall wash his flesh with water… and put on his garments…”
Lev 16:26 — “He that let go the goat… shall wash his clothes…”
Lev 16:28 — “He that burneth them shall wash his clothes…”

L. A Sabbath of Rest

Lev 16:31 — “It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you…”
Lev 23:32 — “It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest…”

M. A Statute Forever

Lev 16:29 — “It shall be a statute for ever…”
Lev 23:31 — “It shall be a statute for ever…”

N. Penalties

Lev 23:29 — “Whatsoever soul… shall not be afflicted… shall be cut off…”
Lev 23:30 — “Whatsoever soul… doeth any work… I will destroy…”

Total Day of Atonement Laws: 35–45

(Depending on how granular you treat the priestly procedures.)

XX. Feast of Tabernacles (Booths / Sukkot)

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

A. The Dates of the Feast

Lev 23:34 — “The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles… seven days…”
Deut 16:13 — “Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days…”

B. First Day: Holy Convocation

Lev 23:35 — “On the first day shall be an holy convocation…”
Num 29:12 — “On the fifteenth day… ye shall have an holy convocation…”

C. No Servile Work

Lev 23:35 — “Ye shall do no servile work therein.”
Num 29:12 — “Ye shall do no servile work…”

D. Offerings Throughout the Seven Days

(Offering procedures belong to the Offering Divisions; here we list only the requirement.)

Lev 23:36 — “Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire…”
Num 29:13–34 — “Ye shall offer a burnt offering… thirteen young bullocks… twelve bullocks… eleven bullocks…” (daily decreasing sequence)

E. The Eighth Day Assembly (Shemini Atzeret)

Lev 23:36 — “On the eighth day shall be an holy convocation…”
Lev 23:36 — “It is a solemn assembly…”
Num 29:35 — “On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly…”

F. No Servile Work on the Eighth Day

Lev 23:36 — “Ye shall do no servile work therein.”
Num 29:35 — “Ye shall do no servile work…”

G. Take the Four Species (Lulav & Etrog)

Lev 23:40 — “Ye shall take… boughs of goodly trees… branches of palm trees… willows of the brook…”

H. Rejoice Before the LORD

Lev 23:40 — “…and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.”
Deut 16:14 — “Thou shalt rejoice in thy feast… thou, and thy son, and thy daughter…”

I. Dwell in Booths for Seven Days

Lev 23:42 — “Ye shall dwell in booths seven days…”
Lev 23:43 — “That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths…”

J. All Native Israelites Must Dwell in Booths

Lev 23:42 — “All that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths.”

K. A Statute Forever

Lev 23:41 — “It shall be a statute for ever in your generations…”

Total Feast of Tabernacles Laws: 20–25

(Depending on how granular you treat the offerings and the four‑species command.)

XXI. Agricultural & Land Laws

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

A. Do Not Mix Seeds

Lev 19:19 — “Thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed.”
Deut 22:9 — “Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds…”

B. Do Not Plow with Mixed Animals

Deut 22:10 — “Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.”

C. Leave Gleanings for the Poor

Lev 19:9 — “Thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field…”
Lev 19:10 — “Thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger.”
Lev 23:22 — “Thou shalt not make clean riddance… thou shalt leave them…”

D. Vineyard Gleaning Laws

Deut 24:21 — “When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward…”
Lev 19:10 — “Neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard…”

E. Do Not Harvest Trees in Their First Three Years

Lev 19:23 — “Three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.”
Lev 19:24 — “In the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy…”

F. Fifth‑Year Produce May Be Eaten

Lev 19:25 — “In the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof…”

G. Do Not Move Boundary Markers

Deut 19:14 — “Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark…”
Deut 27:17 — “Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark.”

H. Harvest Laws for the Stranger, Fatherless, and Widow

Deut 24:19 — “When thou cuttest down thy harvest… thou shalt not go again to fetch it…”
Deut 24:20 — “When thou beatest thine olive tree… thou shalt not go over the boughs again…”

I. Do Not Return for Forgotten Sheaves

Deut 24:19 — “It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.”

J. Land Must Rest Every Seventh Year (Sabbatical Year)

(Full sabbatical laws appear in their own division; here we list only the agricultural commands.)

Lev 25:4 — “In the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land…”
Lev 25:5 — “That which groweth of its own accord… thou shalt not reap…”

K. Jubilee Land Release (Agricultural Component)

(Full Jubilee laws appear in their own division; here we list only the land‑harvest commands.)

Lev 25:11 — “A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be…”
Lev 25:12 — “Ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself…”

Total Agricultural & Land Laws: 20–25

(Depending on how granular you treat gleaning and boundary clauses.)

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…”

A. Betrothal & Bride‑Price

Ex 22:16 — “If a man entice a maid… he shall surely endow her to be his wife.”
Ex 22:17 — “If her father utterly refuse… he shall pay money according to the dowry…”

B. Taking a Wife

Deut 24:1 — “When a man hath taken a wife, and married her…”

C. Virginity Proof Laws

Deut 22:14 — “He… bring up an evil name upon her…”
Deut 22:15 — “Then shall the father… bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity…”
Deut 22:17 — “These are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity…”

D. Penalty for False Accusation Against a Bride

Deut 22:18 — “The elders… shall chastise him.”
Deut 22:19 — “They shall amerce him in an hundred shekels… and she shall be his wife…”

E. Penalty if the Bride Was Not a Virgin

Deut 22:20 — “If… tokens of virginity be not found…”
Deut 22:21 — “Then… the men of her city shall stone her with stones…”

F. Forbidden Marriages

Lev 18:6–18 — “None of you shall approach… to uncover nakedness…” (incest prohibitions)
Deut 23:2 — “A bastard shall not enter into the congregation…”
Deut 23:3 — “An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter…”
Deut 7:3 — “Neither shalt thou make marriages with them…”

G. Marriage to a Captive Woman (War Context)

Deut 21:11 — “Thou seest among the captives a beautiful woman…”
Deut 21:12 — “Thou shalt bring her home… she shall shave her head…”
Deut 21:13 — “She shall remain in thine house… and after that… thou shalt go in unto her…”

H. Rights of the Firstborn in Polygamous Marriages

Deut 21:15 — “If a man have two wives…”
Deut 21:17 — “He shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn…”

I. Duty of a Husband to His Wife

Ex 21:10 — “Her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.”

J. Newlywed Exemption From War

Deut 24:5 — “When a man hath taken a new wife… he shall not go out to war… he shall be free at home one year…”

Total Wedding Laws: 20–25

(Depending on how granular you treat incest prohibitions and virginity‑proof clauses.)

XXIII. Kinsman Redeemer Laws (Levirate)

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

A. Redemption of Land Sold Due to Poverty

Lev 25:25 — “If thy brother be waxen poor… his kinsman that is near unto him shall come and redeem that which his brother sold.”
Lev 25:26 — “If the man have none to redeem it… and he be able to redeem it himself…”
Lev 25:28 — “If he be not able to restore it… it shall remain in the hand of him that bought it until the year of jubilee…”

B. Redemption of a Dwelling in a Walled City

Lev 25:29 — “If a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city… he may redeem it within a whole year…”
Lev 25:30 — “If it be not redeemed… it shall not go out in the jubilee.”

C. Redemption of a Brother Sold Into Servitude

Lev 25:47 — “If a sojourner… wax rich… and thy brother… be sold unto the stranger…”
Lev 25:48 — “After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him.”
Lev 25:49 — “Either his uncle… or any that is nigh of kin… may redeem him.”

D. Levirate Marriage (Yibbum)

Deut 25:5 — “If brethren dwell together… and one of them die… her husband’s brother shall go in unto her…”
Deut 25:6 — “It shall be, that the firstborn… shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead…”

E. Refusal of Levirate Marriage (Chalitzah)

Deut 25:7 — “If the man like not to take his brother’s wife…”
Deut 25:8 — “The elders… shall call him…”
Deut 25:9 — “Then shall his brother’s wife… loose his shoe… and spit in his face…”
Deut 25:10 — “His name shall be called… The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.”

F. Preservation of Family Name and Inheritance

Deut 25:6 — “The firstborn… shall succeed in the name of his brother… that his name be not put out of Israel.”

Example Verse (as you requested earlier)

Deuteronomy 25:5 — “…her husband’s brother shall go in unto her…”

Total Kinsman‑Redeemer Laws: 12–15

(Depending on how granular you treat the redemption clauses.)

XXIV. Childbirth Laws

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

A. Impurity After Bearing a Male Child

Lev 12:2 — “If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child… she shall be unclean seven days.”
Lev 12:3 — “In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.”
Lev 12:4 — “She shall then continue… three and thirty days… she shall touch no hallowed thing…”

B. Impurity After Bearing a Female Child

Lev 12:5 — “If she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks…”
Lev 12:5 — “…and she shall continue… threescore and six days…”

C. Required Offerings After Childbirth

Lev 12:6 — “When the days of her purifying are fulfilled… she shall bring a lamb… for a burnt offering… and a young pigeon… for a sin offering.”
Lev 12:7 — “The priest shall make an atonement for her… and she shall be clean.”

D. Provision for the Poor

Lev 12:8 — “If she be not able to bring a lamb… then two turtles, or two young pigeons…”

Example (as you requested earlier)

Leviticus 12:2 — “…unclean for seven days…”

Total Childbirth Laws: 6–8

(Depending on how granular you treat the male/female impurity periods and offering clauses.)

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.”

A. Establish Courts and Judges

Deut 16:18 — “Judges and officers shalt thou make… and they shall judge the people with just judgment.”
Deut 1:16 — “Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously…”

B. Do Not Pervert Justice

Deut 16:19 — “Thou shalt not wrest judgment…”
Ex 23:6 — “Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.”
Deut 24:17 — “Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger…”

C. Do Not Take Bribes

Ex 23:8 — “Thou shalt take no gift…”
Deut 16:19 — “…neither take a gift…”

D. Equal Justice for All

Deut 1:17 — “Ye shall not respect persons in judgment…”
Lev 19:15 — “Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor… nor honor the mighty.”

E. Diligent Investigation

Deut 13:14 — “Thou shalt inquire, and make search, and ask diligently…”
Deut 17:4 — “If it be told thee… thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently…”
Deut 19:18 — “The judges shall make diligent inquisition…”

F. Witness Requirements

Deut 19:15 — “At the mouth of two witnesses… shall the matter be established.”
Num 35:30 — “Whoso killeth any person… by the mouth of witnesses…”

G. Penalty for False Witness

Deut 19:16 — “If a false witness rise up…”
Deut 19:19 — “Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done…”

H. Appeals to the Higher Court (The Central Tribunal)

Deut 17:8 — “If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment…”
Deut 17:9 — “Thou shalt come unto the priests… and unto the judge…”
Deut 17:10 — “Thou shalt do according to the sentence…”
Deut 17:11 — “Thou shalt not decline… from the sentence…”

I. Penalty for Defying the Court

Deut 17:12 — “The man that will do presumptuously… not hearken… shall die…”

J. Cities of Refuge Judicial Process

(Only the procedural elements — not the homicide laws themselves.)

Deut 19:4 — “This is the case of the slayer…”
Deut 19:5 — “As when a man goeth into the wood…”
Deut 19:6 — “Lest the avenger of blood pursue…”
Deut 19:11–12 — “If any man hate his neighbour… the elders… shall send and fetch him…”

Example (as you’ve been using for each division)

Deuteronomy 19:15 — “…at the mouth of two witnesses… shall the matter be established.”

Total Judicial Procedure Laws: 20–30

(Depending on how granular you treat witness, investigation, and appeals clauses.)

XXVI. Sexual Morality Laws

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

A. Adultery

Ex 20:14 — “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
Lev 20:10 — “The man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife… shall surely be put to death.”

B. Incest Prohibitions

(All “uncover nakedness” prohibitions)

Lev 18:6 — “None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin…”
Lev 18:7 — “The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother…”
Lev 18:8 — “The nakedness of thy father’s wife…”
Lev 18:9 — “The nakedness of thy sister…”
Lev 18:10 — “The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or thy daughter’s daughter…”
Lev 18:11 — “The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter…”
Lev 18:12 — “Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister.”
Lev 18:13 — “Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister.”
Lev 18:14 — “Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother…”
Lev 18:15 — “Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter‑in‑law.”
Lev 18:16 — “Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife.”
Lev 18:17 — “Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter…”
Lev 18:18 — “Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister… to uncover her nakedness…”

C. Homosexual Relations

Lev 18:22 — “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind…”
Lev 20:13 — “If a man also lie with mankind… they shall surely be put to death.”

D. Bestiality

Ex 22:19 — “Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.”
Lev 18:23 — “Neither shalt thou lie with any beast…”
Lev 20:15 — “If a man lie with a beast…”
Lev 20:16 — “If a woman approach unto any beast…”

E. Sexual Relations During Menstrual Impurity

Lev 18:19 — “Thou shalt not approach unto a woman… as long as she is put apart…”
Lev 20:18 — “If a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness…”

F. Prostitution & Cult Prostitution

Lev 19:29 — “Do not prostitute thy daughter…”
Deut 23:17 — “There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.”
Deut 23:18 — “Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore… into the house of the LORD…”

G. Rape & Forced Sexual Acts

(Only the sexual‑morality components — civil penalties appear in other divisions.)

Deut 22:25 — “If a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her…”
Deut 22:26 — “Unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing…”
Deut 22:28 — “If a man find a damsel that is a virgin… and lay hold on her…”

H. Forbidden Sexual Practices of the Nations

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…”

Example (as you’ve been using for each division)

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

Total Sexual Morality Laws: 30–40

(Depending on how granular you treat the incest clauses.)

XXVII. Kingship Laws

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

A. The King Must Be Chosen by God

Deut 17:15 — “Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose…”

B. The King Must Be an Israelite

Deut 17:15 — “One from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee… thou mayest not set a stranger over thee…”

C. The King Must Not Multiply Horses

Deut 17:16 — “He shall not multiply horses to himself…”

D. The King Must Not Return the People to Egypt

Deut 17:16 — “…nor cause the people to return to Egypt… forasmuch as the LORD hath said… Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.”

E. The King Must Not Multiply Wives

Deut 17:17 — “Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away…”

F. The King Must Not Multiply Silver and Gold

Deut 17:17 — “Neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.”

G. The King Must Write a Copy of the Torah

Deut 17:18 — “He shall write him a copy of this law in a book… out of that which is before the priests the Levites.”

H. The King Must Read the Torah Daily

Deut 17:19 — “It shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life…”

I. Purpose of the King’s Torah Reading

Deut 17:19 — “…that he may learn to fear the LORD his God… to keep all the words of this law…”

J. The King Must Not Lift Himself Above His Brethren

Deut 17:20 — “That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren…”

K. The King Must Not Turn Aside From the Commandments

Deut 17:20 — “…that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left…”

L. Promise of Longevity for Obedient Kings

Deut 17:20 — “…to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom…”

Example Verse (as you’ve been using for each division)

Deuteronomy 17:16 — “…he shall not multiply horses to himself…”

Total Kingship Laws: 10–12

(Depending on how granular you treat the Torah‑copying and Torah‑reading clauses.)

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.”

A. Offer Peace Before Attacking

Deut 20:10 — “When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.”

B. Terms of Peace

Deut 20:11 — “If it make thee answer of peace… they shall be tributaries unto thee, and serve thee.”

C. If Peace Is Refused

Deut 20:12 — “If it will make no peace… thou shalt besiege it.”

D. Treatment of Men in a Captured City

Deut 20:13 — “Thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword.”

E. Treatment of Women, Children, and Livestock

Deut 20:14 — “The women, and the little ones… and all that is in the city… shalt thou take unto thyself…”

F. Apply These Rules Only to Distant Cities

Deut 20:15 — “Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee…”

G. Do Not Destroy Fruit Trees in War

Deut 20:19 — “Thou shalt not destroy the trees… for thou mayest eat of them…”

H. You May Cut Down Non‑Fruit Trees

Deut 20:20 — “Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat… thou shalt cut them down…”

I. Treatment of Captive Women (Non‑Canaanite)

(Only the warfare‑context marriage laws.)

Deut 21:11 — “Thou seest among the captives a beautiful woman…”
Deut 21:12 — “Thou shalt bring her home… she shall shave her head…”
Deut 21:13 — “She shall remain in thine house… and after that… thou shalt go in unto her…”

J. Release of the Captive Woman if Unwanted

Deut 21:14 — “If thou have no delight in her… thou shalt let her go whither she will…”

K. Purity of the Camp During War

Deut 23:9 — “When the host goeth forth… keep thee from every wicked thing.”

L. Sanitation in the Camp

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.”

Example Verse (as you’ve been using for each division)

Deuteronomy 20:10 — “…then proclaim peace unto it.”

Total Warfare Laws (Non‑Canaanite): 15–20

(Depending on how granular you treat the captive‑woman and tree‑protection clauses.)

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…”

A. Help Your Brother’s Animal in Distress

Ex 23:5 — “If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden… thou shalt surely help…”
Deut 22:4 — “Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down… and hide thyself… thou shalt surely help him…”

B. Return Lost Property

Deut 22:1 — “Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray… thou shalt in any case bring them again…”
Deut 22:2 — “If thy brother be not nigh… thou shalt bring it unto thine own house… and restore it…”

C. Care for the Stranger, Fatherless, and Widow

Ex 22:22 — “Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.”
Deut 24:17 — “Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless…”
Deut 24:19 — “It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.”

D. Do Not Oppress the Stranger

Ex 22:21 — “Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him…”
Lev 19:34 — “The stranger… shall be unto you as one born among you…”

E. Leave Gleanings for the Poor

(Agricultural laws appear in their own division; here are the compassion‑based commands.)

Lev 19:9 — “Thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field…”
Lev 19:10 — “Thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger.”

F. Pay Workers Fairly and Promptly

Lev 19:13 — “The wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.”
Deut 24:14 — “Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant…”
Deut 24:15 — “At his day thou shalt give him his hire…”

G. Do Not Take Millstones or Essential Tools as Pledges

Deut 24:6 — “No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge…”

H. Do Not Take a Widow’s Garment as Pledge

Deut 24:17 — “Thou shalt not take a widow’s raiment to pledge.”

I. Return a Poor Man’s Pledge Before Sunset

Deut 24:12 — “If the man be poor… thou shalt not sleep with his pledge.”
Deut 24:13 — “Thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down…”

J. Do Not Oppress the Poor

Ex 22:25 — “If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor… thou shalt not be to him as an usurer…”

K. Do Not Curse the Deaf or Trip the Blind

Lev 19:14 — “Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind…”

L. Release Servants With Generosity

Deut 15:13 — “When thou sendest him out free… thou shalt not let him go away empty.”
Deut 15:14 — “Thou shalt furnish him liberally…”

M. Lend Freely to the Needy

Deut 15:7 — “Thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother.”
Deut 15:8 — “Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him…”

Example Verse (as you’ve been using for each division)

Deuteronomy 22:4 — “…thou shalt surely help him…”

Total Compassion & Social Care Laws: 20–30

(Depending on how granular you treat pledge‑return and gleaning clauses.)

XXX. Vow & Oath Laws

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

A. Keep Every Vow You Make

Num 30:2 — “If a man vow a vow unto the LORD… he shall not break his word…”

B. A Woman’s Vows Under Her Father’s Authority

Num 30:3 — “If a woman… being in her father’s house… vow a vow…”
Num 30:5 — “If her father disallow her… the LORD shall forgive her.”

C. A Married Woman’s Vows Under Her Husband’s Authority

Num 30:6 — “If she had at all an husband… and she vowed…”
Num 30:8 — “If her husband disallowed her… the LORD shall forgive her.”

D. A Widow or Divorced Woman’s Vows

Num 30:9 — “Every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced… shall stand against her.”

E. Husband’s Authority to Confirm or Void Vows

Num 30:13 — “Every vow… her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.”

F. Annulment Must Be Immediate

Num 30:14 — “If her husband altogether hold his peace… then he establisheth all her vows.”

G. The LORD Requires Fulfillment of All Binding Oaths

Deut 23:21 — “When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD… thou shalt not slack to pay it…”
Deut 23:23 — “That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform…”

H. Voluntary Vows Are Still Binding

Deut 23:22 — “If thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.”

Example Verse (as you’ve been using for each division)

Numbers 30:2 — “…he shall not break his word…”

Total Vow & Oath Laws: 10–12

(Depending on how granular you treat the annulment clauses.)

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…”

A. If a Man Sleeps With an Unbetrothed Virgin

Deut 22:28 — “If a man find a damsel that is a virgin… and lay hold on her, and they be found…”

B. He Must Pay the Bride‑Price

Deut 22:29 — “Then the man… shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver…”

C. He Must Marry Her

Deut 22:29 — “…and she shall be his wife…”

D. He May Never Divorce Her

Deut 22:29 — “…he may not put her away all his days.”

Example Verse (as you’ve been using for each division)

Deuteronomy 22:29 — “…he shall give… fifty shekels of silver… and she shall be his wife…”

Total Premarital Sex Laws: 4

(One case, four binding requirements.)

XXXII Decalogue (Ten Commandments)

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

1. No Other Gods

Ex 20:3 — “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”

2. No Idols

Ex 20:4 — “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image…”

3. Do Not Take the Name of the LORD in Vain

Ex 20:7 — “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain…”

4. Remember the Sabbath Day

Ex 20:8 — “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.”

5. Honor Father and Mother

Ex 20:12 — “Honour thy father and thy mother…”

6. Do Not Murder

Ex 20:13 — “Thou shalt not kill.”

7. Do Not Commit Adultery

Ex 20:14 — “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”

8. Do Not Steal

Ex 20:15 — “Thou shalt not steal.”

9. Do Not Bear False Witness

Ex 20:16 — “Thou shalt not bear false witness…”

10. Do Not Covet

Ex 20:17 — “Thou shalt not covet…”

Example Verse

Exodus 20:1 — “And God spake all these words, saying…”

Total Decalogue Laws: 10

(Each command stands as its own indivisible law in your system.)

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…”

A. Remember the Sabbath Day

Ex 20:8 — “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.”

B. Remember You Were Slaves in Egypt

Deut 5:15 — “And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt…”
Deut 15:15 — “And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt…”
Deut 16:12 — “And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt…”
Deut 24:18 — “But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt…”
Deut 24:22 — “And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt.”

C. Remember the LORD Led You in the Wilderness

Deut 8:2 — “Thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee…”

D. Remember the LORD Gives Power to Get Wealth

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

E. Remember What the LORD Did to Miriam

Deut 24:9 — “Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam…”

F. Remember What Amalek Did

Deut 25:17 — “Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way…”

Example Verse

Deuteronomy 8:18 — “Thou shalt remember the LORD thy God…”

Total Remember Laws: 10–12

(Depending on how granular you treat the repeated Egypt‑memory commands.)

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.”

A. Bind the Words on the Hand

Deut 6:8 — “Thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand.”

B. Bind the Words Between the Eyes

Deut 6:8 — “…they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.”

C. Write the Words on the Doorposts

Deut 6:9 — “Thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house…”

D. Write the Words on the Gates

Deut 6:9 — “…and on thy gates.”

E. Bind the Words on the Hand (Second Witness)

Deut 11:18 — “Therefore shall ye lay up these my words… and bind them for a sign upon your hand…”

F. Bind the Words Between the Eyes (Second Witness)

Deut 11:18 — “…that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.”

G. Write the Words on the Doorposts (Second Witness)

Deut 11:20 — “And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house…”

H. Write the Words on the Gates (Second Witness)

Deut 11:20 — “…and upon thy gates.”

Example Verse

Deuteronomy 6:9 — “…write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.”

Total Identity Marker Laws: 8

(Four commands, each repeated twice in Torah’s two covenant‑identity sections.)

XXXV. The Capital Punishment Laws

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

A. Witchcraft / Sorcery

Ex 22:18 — “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”

B. Adultery

Lev 20:10 — “The man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife… shall surely be put to death.”

C. Blasphemy

Lev 24:16 — “He that blasphemeth the name of the LORD… shall surely be put to death.”

D. Sabbath‑Breaking

Num 15:35 — “The man shall be surely put to death…”

E. Molech / Child‑Sacrifice

Lev 20:2 — “Whosoever… giveth any of his seed unto Molech… shall surely be put to death.”

F. False Prophets

Deut 13:5 — “That prophet… shall be put to death.”

G. Rebellious Son

Deut 21:21 — “All the men of his city shall stone him with stones…”

H. Kidnapping

Ex 21:16 — “He that stealeth a man… shall surely be put to death.”

I. Bestiality

Ex 22:19 — “Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.”
Lev 20:15 — “If a man lie with a beast…”
Lev 20:16 — “If a woman approach unto any beast…”

J. Certain Forms of Incest

Lev 20:11 — “The man that lieth with his father’s wife… both of them shall surely be put to death.”
Lev 20:12 — “If a man lie with his daughter‑in‑law… both of them shall surely be put to death.”
Lev 20:14 — “If a man take a wife and her mother… both he and they shall be burnt with fire.”

K. Homosexual Acts (Capital Clause)

Lev 20:13 — “If a man also lie with mankind… they shall surely be put to death.”

L. Cursing Father or Mother

Ex 21:17 — “He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.”
Lev 20:9 — “Every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.”

M. Striking Father or Mother

Ex 21:15 — “He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.”

N. Murder

Ex 21:12 — “He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.”

Example Verse

Exodus 22:18 — “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”

Total Capital Punishment Laws: 20–25

(Depending on how granular you treat the incest and bestiality clauses.)

XXXVI. Health & Bodily Discharge Laws

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

A. Male Bodily Discharge (Chronic Issue)

Lev 15:2 — “When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh… he is unclean.”
Lev 15:3 — “This shall be his uncleanness in his issue…”
Lev 15:4 — “Every bed whereon he lieth… shall be unclean.”
Lev 15:5 — “Whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes…”
Lev 15:6 — “He that sitteth on any thing… shall wash his clothes…”
Lev 15:7 — “He that toucheth the flesh of him… shall wash his clothes…”
Lev 15:8 — “If he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean…”
Lev 15:9 — “What saddle soever he rideth upon… shall be unclean.”
Lev 15:10 — “Whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him…”
Lev 15:11 — “Whomsoever he toucheth… shall wash his clothes…”
Lev 15:13 — “When he is cleansed… he shall number to himself seven days… and wash his clothes…”
Lev 15:14 — “On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves…”
Lev 15:15 — “The priest shall make an atonement for him…”

B. Seminal Emission

Lev 15:16 — “If any man’s seed of copulation go out from him… he shall wash… and be unclean until the even.”
Lev 15:17 — “Every garment… whereon is the seed… shall be washed…”
Lev 15:18 — “The woman also… shall both bathe… and be unclean until the even.”

C. Menstrual Impurity

Lev 15:19 — “If a woman have an issue… in her flesh… seven days…”
Lev 15:20 — “Every thing that she lieth upon… shall be unclean.”
Lev 15:21 — “Whosoever toucheth her… shall wash his clothes…”
Lev 15:22 — “Whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon…”
Lev 15:23 — “If it be on her bed… he shall be unclean until the even.”
Lev 15:24 — “If any man lie with her… he shall be unclean seven days…”

D. Abnormal Female Discharge (Issue of Blood)

Lev 15:25 — “If a woman have an issue of her blood many days… she shall be unclean…”
Lev 15:26 — “Every bed whereon she lieth… shall be unto her as the bed of her separation.”
Lev 15:27 — “Whosoever toucheth those things… shall wash his clothes…”
Lev 15:28 — “If she be cleansed… she shall number to herself seven days…”
Lev 15:29 — “On the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles…”
Lev 15:30 — “The priest shall make an atonement for her…”

E. Childbirth Impurity (Cross‑Referenced Division)

(Listed here only because Lev 12 is part of the bodily‑discharge code.)

Lev 12:2 — “If a woman have conceived seed… she shall be unclean seven days.”
Lev 12:5 — “If she bear a maid child… she shall be unclean two weeks…”

F. Leprosy / Skin Disease Diagnosis

Lev 13:2 — “When a man shall have in the skin… a rising, a scab, or bright spot… he shall be brought unto Aaron…”
Lev 13:3 — “The priest shall look… and pronounce him unclean.”
Lev 13:4 — “If the spot be white… the priest shall shut him up seven days.”
Lev 13:5 — “The priest shall look on him the seventh day…”
Lev 13:6 — “The priest shall pronounce him clean… or unclean.”

G. Leprosy in Garments

Lev 13:47 — “The garment… wherein there is a plague of leprosy…”
Lev 13:49 — “If the plague be greenish or reddish…”
Lev 13:51 — “He shall burn that garment…”

H. Leprosy in Houses

Lev 14:34 — “When ye be come into the land… and I put the plague of leprosy in a house…”
Lev 14:36 — “The priest shall command that they empty the house…”
Lev 14:38 — “The priest shall go out… and shut up the house seven days.”
Lev 14:40 — “They shall take away the stones… and cast them into an unclean place.”
Lev 14:45 — “He shall break down the house…”

I. Cleansing Ritual for Healed Lepers

Lev 14:2 — “This shall be the law of the leper…”
Lev 14:4 — “Then shall the priest command to take… two birds…”
Lev 14:7 — “He shall sprinkle… seven times… and pronounce him clean.”
Lev 14:8 — “He that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes…”
Lev 14:10 — “On the eighth day he shall take two he lambs…”
Lev 14:20 — “The priest shall make an atonement for him…”

Example Verse

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

Total Health & Bodily‑Discharge Laws: 50–60

(Depending on how granular you treat the inspection, washing, and waiting‑period clauses.)

XXXVII. Mikveh; Ritual Cleansing Laws

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

A. Washing After Contact With an Unclean Person

Lev 15:5 — “He that toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water…”
Lev 15:7 — “He that toucheth the flesh of him… shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water…”
Lev 15:11 — “Whomsoever he toucheth… shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water…”

B. Washing After Contact With Unclean Objects

Lev 15:8 — “If he… spit upon him that is clean… he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water…”
Lev 15:10 — “Whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him… shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water…”

C. Washing After Seminal Emission

Lev 15:16 — “He shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.”
Lev 15:17 — “Every garment… shall be washed with water.”

D. Washing After Intercourse

Lev 15:18 — “They shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.”

E. Washing After Menstrual Impurity

Lev 15:21 — “Whosoever toucheth her… shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water…”
Lev 15:27 — “Whosoever toucheth those things… shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water…”

F. Washing After Abnormal Female Discharge

Lev 15:28 — “She shall number to herself seven days…”
Lev 15:29 — “On the eighth day she shall take… two turtles…”
Lev 15:30 — “The priest shall make an atonement for her…”

G. Washing After Childbirth (Cross‑Referenced)

Lev 12:2 — “She shall be unclean seven days.”
Lev 12:5 — “She shall be unclean two weeks…”

H. Washing in the Leper‑Cleansing Ritual

Lev 14:8 — “He that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water…”
Lev 14:9 — “He shall wash his clothes… and wash his flesh in water…”

I. Washing After Touching a Dead Body

Num 19:19 — “The clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean… and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water…”

J. Washing After Eating or Touching What Died of Itself

Lev 17:15 — “He shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water…”

K. Washing After Contact With Creeping Things

Lev 11:32 — “It shall be put into water… and be unclean until the even.”
Lev 11:40 — “He that eateth… shall wash his clothes…”

Example Verse

Leviticus 15:5 — “…shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water…”

Total Mikveh / Ritual Cleansing Laws: 25–35

(Depending on how granular you treat the washing, bathing, and waiting‑period clauses.)

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.”

A. One Law for Homeborn and Stranger

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

B. Passover Participation Requirements

Ex 12:48 — “When a stranger… will keep the passover… let all his males be circumcised…”
Num 9:14 — “If a stranger… shall keep the passover… one ordinance shall be both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.”

C. Equal Justice for the Stranger

Lev 24:22 — “Ye shall have one manner of law… as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country.”
Deut 1:16 — “Judge righteously between… the stranger that is with him.”
Deut 24:17 — “Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger…”

D. Love the Stranger

Deut 10:19 — “Love ye therefore the stranger…”

E. Do Not Oppress or Mistreat the Stranger

Ex 22:21 — “Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him…”
Lev 19:33 — “If a stranger sojourn with thee… ye shall not vex him.”
Lev 19:34 — “The stranger… shall be unto you as one born among you…”

F. Gleaning Rights for the Stranger

Lev 19:10 — “Thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger.”
Lev 23:22 — “Thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger.”

G. Sabbath Rest Applies to the Stranger

Ex 20:10 — “The stranger that is within thy gates.”
Deut 5:14 — “Thy stranger… may rest as well as thou.”

H. Food Restrictions for the Stranger

Lev 17:10 — “Whatsoever man… or stranger… that eateth any manner of blood…”
Lev 17:12 — “No stranger that sojourneth among you shall eat blood.”
Lev 17:15 — “Every soul… whether he be born in the land, or a stranger… that eateth that which died of itself…”

I. Sacrificial Access for the Stranger

Lev 17:8 — “Whatsoever man… or stranger… that offereth a burnt offering…”
Num 15:14 — “If a stranger… will offer an offering…”
Num 15:15 — “One ordinance shall be both for you… and for the stranger.”

J. Purity Laws Apply to the Stranger

Num 19:10 — “This shall be a statute… for the stranger that sojourneth among them.”
Lev 16:29 — “This shall be a statute for ever… and for the stranger that sojourneth among you.”

K. Prohibition Against Idolatry Applies to the Stranger

Lev 17:7–9 — “This shall be a statute… unto them throughout their generations.”
Lev 20:2 — “Whosoever… of the strangers that sojourn in Israel… giveth any of his seed unto Molech…”

L. Cities of Refuge Apply to the Stranger

Num 35:15 — “These six cities shall be a refuge… for the stranger, and for the sojourner…”

Example Verse

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

Tag: torah-by-catagory

The Divisions of Torah

This is the on-line syllabus for the

Doctoral-level Course:

“Introduction to Torah“

By:

TruthQuest International LLC; Bible Study Network.

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The TruthQuest Divisions found in Torah.

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

Deuteronomy 7

Deuteronomy 12

Deuteronomy 20 (Canaan‑specific commands only)

Deuteronomy 9

Deuteronomy 31

Numbers 33

Exodus 23

Exodus 34

Total Count: 18–20 laws

II. High Priest Laws (12-15)

Leviticus 21 — Personal Restrictions

Leviticus 16 — Day of Atonement Duties

Leviticus 22 — Heightened Purity Requirements

Exodus 28–29 — High Priest Garments & Consecration

Estimated Count: 12–15 High Priest Laws

III. Levitical Priesthood Laws (20-25)

A. Judicial & Teaching Authority

B. Priestly Purity Requirements

C. Priestly Food & Holy Things

D. Priestly Service Requirements

E. Priestly Portions & Support

F. Priestly Inspection Duties

G. Priestly Blessing

Count: 31 Levitical Priesthood Laws

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

A. Command to Build the Sanctuary

B. Ark of the Covenant

C. Table of Showbread

D. Golden Lampstand (Menorah)

E. Tabernacle Structure

F. Altar of Burnt Offering

G. Court of the Tabernacle

H. Oil for the Lamp

I. Priestly Garments (Physical Items Only)

J. Altar of Incense

K. Bronze Laver

L. Holy Anointing Oil

M. Incense Formula

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.

A. Daily Covenant Obedience

B. Daily Love & Loyalty to God

C. Daily Remembrance & Words

D. Daily Symbols of Covenant Identity

E. Daily Ethical Conduct

F. Daily Honesty & Integrity

G. Daily Purity Maintenance

H. Daily Food Requirements (Eat Kosher)

1. Basic Rule for Meat

2. Basic Rule for Fish

3. Daily Blood Prohibition

4. Daily Carcass / Terefah Rule

5. Daily Fat Prohibition

6. Daily Separation of Meat & Milk

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

I. Daily Household Boundaries

J. Daily Justice & Fairness

K. Daily Compassion

L. Daily Speech Requirements

M. Daily Work & Labor

Total Daily Requirements: 40–500

VI. The Daily Prohibitions

A. Prohibitions Against Idolatry & False Worship

B. Prohibitions Against Misusing God’s Name

C. Prohibitions Against Injustice

D. Prohibitions Against Oppression

E. Prohibitions Against Theft & Dishonesty

F. Prohibitions Against Harmful Speech

G. Prohibitions Against Hatred & Vengeance