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Numbers: Commandments

  1. People who suffer from leprosy must live completely alone. 5:2-3
  2. Don't allow anyone who has an issue to live near you. 5:2-3
  3. Don't allow anyone who has touched a dead body to live near you. 5:2-3
  4. If a you sin, you must pay back the person who you injured plus 20%. 5:6-7
  5. If you sin, confess your sin. 5:6-7
  6. If the injured person and his family cannot be found, then the payment goes to the priest instead. 5:6-8
  7. All holy donations belong to the priest. 5:9-10
  8. The Law of Jealousies: What a man must do when he suspects that his wife has been unfaithful. 5:11-31
  9. A Nazarite may not drink any alcoholic beverages. 6:1-3a
  10. Or eat anything that comes from a grapevine. 6:3a-4
  11. He must not cut his hair. 6:5
  12. And he must stay away from dead bodies, including dead family members. 6:6-7
  13. If you are a Nazarite and happen to be nearby when someone dies, you must: 6:8-12
  14. When you decide to quit being a Nazarite, you must: 6:13-20
  15. After you retire, you may drink wine once again. 6:20-21
  16. Priests must bless the children of Israel, using these words. 6:23-26
  17. The sons of Kohath must bear the holy things on their shoulders. Numbers 7:9
  18. Do these things to all the Levites in your community. Numbers 8:5-13
  19. Separate the Levites from everyone else. 8:14a
  20. The working age for Levites is 25 to 50. 8:23-26
  21. Celebrate Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month. 9:1-3, 28:16
  22. If you are unclean or traveling at the time of Passover, observe the special Passover for unclean people. 9:9-11
  23. Don't leave any leftovers when observing Unclean Passover. 9:12a
  24. Don't break any of the lamb's bones when observing Unclean Passover. 9:12b
  25. If you are clean and not traveling and refuse to celebrate Passover, you will be cut off from your people. 9:13
  26. Strangers must observe the Passover. 9:14
  27. Make two silver trumpets to call people to meetings. 10:1-2
  28. Only the descendants of Aaron can blow the trumpets. 10:8
  29. When you go to war, blow the trumpets to remind God to save you from your enemies. 10:9
  30. Blow the trumpets on happy days, solemn days, at the beginning of every month, and when you make burnt and peace offerings. 10:10
  31. Sacrifice an unblemished male sheep (or goat) as a burnt offering. 15:3-7
  32. Make a meat offering to the Lord. 15:4-9
  33. When doing your burnt and peace offerings, include 0.3 deal of flour and a drink offering of half a hin of wine for a drink offering. 15:8-11
  34. Everyone must sacrifice animals to God. 15:13-16
  35. When you eat the bread of the land, include a cake of your first dough for a heave offering. 15:19-21
  36. If the congregation sins through ignorance, kill a bullock (blemished or unblemished). 15:24-26
  37. If an ordinary person sins through ignorance, kill a young unblemished female sheep or goat. 15:27-29
  38. Stone to death anyone who gathers sticks on the Sabbath. 15:32-36
  39. Put fringes on your garments. 15:37
  40. Don't seek after your own heart or your own eyes. 15:39
  41. The Levites must serve the priests. 18:2
  42. The Levites are in charge of the tabernacle. 18:2-5, 23
  43. Levites may not come near the vessels or the altar. 18:3
  44. Strangers may not come near a priest. 18:4
  45. Priests are in charge of the heave offerings and other holy things by ordianance forever. 18:8
  46. The priests must eat the most holy meat offerings, sin offerings, and trespass offerings in the holy place. 18:9-10
  47. Every clean descendant of Aaron, both male and female, may eat heave offerings and wave offerings. 18:11
  48. The priests (and their clean family memembers) get all the best oil, wine, wheat, and first fruits. 18:12-13
  49. Every firstborn human and animal belongs to the priests. 18:15a
  50. Firstborn sons and unclean beasts can be redeemed (bought back) from the priests by paying 5 shekels after the baby boy or unclean beast is 30 days old. 18:15b-16
  51. Don't redeem firstling cows, sheep, and goats. 18:17a
  52. Sprinkle the blood of firstling cows, sheep, and goat on the altar and burn their fat for a sweet savor unto the Lord. 18:17
  53. The priests get the wave breasts and heave shoulders. 18:18-19
  54. Priests shall have no inheritance. 18:20-23
  55. The Levites get one tenth of everything everyone else possesses. 18:21-24
  56. If you're not a Levite, stay away from the tabernacle or you will bear sin and die. 18:22
  57. The Levites must offer God a heave offering worth one-tenth of their tithe. 18:26
  58. Don't pollute the holy things. 18:32
  59. Make holy water from the ashes of a spotless red cow. 19:1-10
  60. Follow this procedure to get clean after touching a dead body, bone, grave, unclean person, or water of separation. 19:11-22
  61. You must afflict your soul on the tenth day of the seventh month. 23:27
  62. If a man dies and has no son, then his daughter receives the inheritance. 27:8-11
  63. Sacrifice to God two first-year lambs each day, one in the morning and one in the evening. 28:3-4
  64. On each Sabbath, kill two first-year unblemished lambs. 28:9-10
  65. On the first day of every month, kill and burn two young bulls, one ram, and seven first-year unspotted lambs. 28:11-15
  66. Don't work on the first day of the feast of unleavened bread. 28:18
  67. On each of the seven days of Passover, kill and burn two young bulls, one ram, and seven first-year lambs. 28:19-24
  68. Don't work on the seventh day of the feast of unleavened bread. 28:25
  69. Each year at harvest time, kill two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs as burnt offerings, and one kid of the goats for a burnt offering. 28:26-31
  70. On the first day of the seventh month have a trumpet-blowing sabbath, a holy convocation. 29:1b
  71. Don't do any work on the first day of the seventh month. 29:1
  72. On the first day of the seventh month, kill a young bull, one ram, and seven unblemished first-year lambs. Add a kid of the goats for a sin offering. 29:1-6
  73. On the tenth day of the seventh month there shall be a day of atonement, a holy convocation. 29:7
  74. Don't do any work on the tenth day of the seventh month. 29:7-8
  75. On the tenth day of the seventh month kill a young bull, a ram, and seven unblemished first-year lambs as burnt offerings, and a kid of the goats for a sin offering. 29:7-11
  76. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, kill thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen unblemished first-year lambs for burnt offerings, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering. 29:12-16
  77. The seven-day feast of tabernacles begins of the fifteenth day of the seventh month. 29:12
  78. Don't do any work on the first day of the feast of tabernacles. 29:12
  79. On the second day of the seventh month, kill twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen unspotted first-year lambs for meat offerings, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering. 29:17-19
  80. On the third day of the seventh month, kill eleven bulls, two rams, and fourteen unblemished first-year lambs for meat offerings, and one goat for a sin offering. 29:20-22
  81. On the fourth day of the seventh month, kill ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen unblemished first-year lambs for meat offerings, and one goat for a sin offering. 29:23-25
  82. On the fifth day of the seventh month, kill nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen unspotted first-year lambs for meat offerings, and one goat for a sin offering. 29:26-28
  83. On the sixth day of the seventh month, kill eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen unblemished first-year lambs for meat offerings, and one goat for a sin offering. 29:29-31
  84. On the seventh day of the seventh month, kill seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen unblemished first-year lambs for meat offerings, and one goat for a sin offering. 29:32-34
  85. On the eighth day of seventh month, kill one bull, one ram, and seven unblemished first-year lambs for meat offerings, and one goat for a sin offering. 29:35-39
  86. Don't do any work on the eighth day of the feast of tabernacles. 29:12-35
  87. Men must keep their promises. Numbers 30:2
  88. A woman who lives in her father's house doesn't have to keep her promise, unless her father agrees with it. 30:3-5
  89. A married woman desn't have to keep her promise, unless her husband agrees with it. 30:6-8, 10-15
  90. Widows and divorced women must keep their promises. 30:9
  91. Don't do evil in the sight of the Lord. 32:13
  92. Conquer people who believe in other gods and destroy their religious property. 33:41-56
  93. Give the Levites 48 cities and suburbs. 35:2-7
  94. Make six cities of refuge (three on each side of the Jordan River), where accidental murderers can flee. 35:11-15
  95. Murderers must be killed by "the revenger of blood" (the victim's nearest male relative). 35:16-21
  96. If someone kills another person accidentally, then the congregation sends him to a city of refuge, where he shall live until the high priest dies. 35:22-28
  97. Kill whoever kills another person. 35:30a
  98. It takes two witnesses to kill a murderer. 35:30b
  99. Don't accept monetary restitution for a the life of the murderer. 35:31
  100. Don't accept monetary restitution for the person who has fled to the city of refuge. 35:32-33
  101. A woman who receives an inheritance must not marry outside of her father's tribe. 36:8