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If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp. 23:10

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All the commandments in the Bible.

Introduction

All the commandments (in biblical order with first occurence)

  1. Commandments about the Commandments
  2. Commandments about God
  3. Other Gods and Beliefs
  4. Holy Things and Holy Days
  5. Priests, Levites, Nazarites, and Prophets
  6. Business, Law and Government
  7. Slavery, War and Genocide
  8. Crime and Punishment
  9. Sex, Homosexuality and circumcision
  10. Marriage, Divorce, Children, and Human Life
  11. Women
  12. Animals, Agriculture, and the Environment
  13. Animal Sacrifice
  14. Health, Diet, Alcohol, Clothing and Personal Hygiene
  15. Jesus's Commandments
  16. Just for Christians
  17. Good Rules
  18. Fortune Cookie Commandments

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    Biblical order, with first occurence

      Deuteronomy

      1. Aquatic and marine animals that lack fins or scales are unlean.  14:9 (751)
      2. Every creeping thing that flies is unclean.  14:19 (752)
      3. Don't do any work with your firstborn bull.  15:19 (774)
      4. Don't shear your firstborn sheep.  15:19 (775)
      5. Don't plant a vineyard with different kinds of seeds.  22:9 (776)
      6. Don't plow with an ox and an ass together.  22:10 (777)

      Leviticus

      1. Teach the commandments to your children.  10:11 (4)

      Deuteronomy

      1. Don't add any commandments.  4:2 (5)
      2. Don't delete any commandments.  4:2 (6)
      3. Keep the commandments in your heart.  6:6 (7)
      4. Talk about the commandments.  6:7 (8)
      5. Write the commandments on your doorposts and gates.  6:9 (9)
      6. Don't change the commandments.  28:14 (10)
      7. Every seven years, read the commandments to all the people in a place that God will choose.  31:10 (11)
      8. Put the commandments in the ark of the covenant.  31:26 (12)
      9. Command your children to obey all of the commandments.  32:46 (13)

      Exodus

      1. Kill witches.  22:18 (548)

      Deuteronomy

      1. Kill prophets that give you a sign or a wonder.  13:1 (556)
      2. Kill anyone who refuses to obey a priest.  17:12 (557)
      3. Kill anyone who refuses to obey a judge.  17:12 (558)
      4. Kill false prophets.  18:20 (559)
      5. Kill the prophets of other gods.  18:20 (560)
      6. Whoever commits a sin that is worthy of death shall be killed and hung on a tree.  21:22 (561)
      7. But don't let the body hang overnight.  21:22 (562)
      8. If your family or friends try to get you to worship another god, stone them to death.  13:6 (569)
      9. Don't consent to, listen to, pity, spare, or conceal your family or friends as you stone them to death.  13:9 (570)
      10. Stone to death anyone who worships another god.  17:2 (571)
      11. Stone to death stubborn and rebellious sons.  21:18 (572)
      12. When a judge decides that someone is wicked, make him lie down and beat him with up to forty lashes.  25:2 (587)
      13. If two men fight and the wife of one grabs the "secrets" of the other, "then thou shalt cut off her hand."  25:11 (590)
      14. Don't pity the woman as you cut off her hand  25:12 (591)
      15. Don't pity the person who is being punished.  19:13 (602)
      16. Don't marry non-believers.  7:3 (660)
      17. Don't let your children marry non-believers.  7:3 (661)
      18. If a man accuses his wife of not being a virgin on her wedding night, and her parents are unable to produce the bloody sheets to disprove the accusation, then the men of the city shall stone her to death.  22:13 (662)
      19. If a man falsely accuses his wife of not being a virgin on her wedding night, then the he can never divorce divorce her.  22:13 (663)
      20. When a man takes a new wife, he shall not do any business; he shall be free for one year to cheer up his new wife.  24:5 (664)
      21. If a man dies before his wife has a child, his widow must not marry a stranger.  25:5 (665)
      22. Rather, she must marry her dead husband's brother.  25:5 (666)
      23. When a man marries his dead brother's wife, the firstborn son receives the dead brother's name.  25:6 (667)
      24. If a man refuses to "go in unto" his dead brother's wife, she shall loosen his shoe and spit in his face.  25:7 (668)
      25. A man who refuses to have sex with his dead brother's wife shall be called "him that has his shoe loosed."  25:10 (669)
      26. If you take a wife, and you find some uncleanness in her, divorce her and kick her out of your house.  24:1 (678)
      27. A divorced wife may marry another man, but if her new husband divorces her because he hates her too (or if he dies), then her former husband must not remarry her.  24:2 (679)
      28. If you have two wives, one beloved and another hated, and your firstborn son was born of your hated wife, then give him twice the inheritance of your beloved wife's firstborn son.  21:15 (684)
      29. Don't kill fathers for things their children did, and vice versa.  24:16 (689)
      30. Don't set light by your father or mother.  27:16 (690)
      31. Circumcise the foreskin of your heart.  10:16 (1423)
      32. Don't be stiffnecked.  8:16 (1424)
      33. Don't live in Egypt.  17:16 (1425)
      34. Be perfect.  18:13 (1426)
      35. If you see a bird's nest, don't take the mother bird.  22:6 (1427)

      Numbers

      1. Remember what God did to Miriam.  12:9 (1428)

      Deuteronomy

      1. Remember that you were a slave in Egypt.  24:22 (1429)
      2. Remember what Amalek did to you.  25:17 (1430)
      3. Rejoice.  26:11 (1431)
      4. Hear: God is one.  6:4 (30)
      5. Love God.  6:5 (31)
      6. Don't tempt God.  6:16 (32)
      7. Bless God when you finish eating.  8:10 (33)
      8. Don't forget God.  8:11 (34)
      9. Walk in God's ways.  10:12 (35)
      10. Don't destroy God's holy things.  12:2 (37)
      11. Walk after God.  13:4 (38)
      12. Obey God's voice.  13:4 (39)
      13. Don't go after other gods.  6:14 (128)
      14. Don't desire the silver and gold on the graven images of other gods.  7:25 (129)
      15. Don't set up an image that God hates.  16:22 (130)
      16. Don't make a molten image.  27:15 (131)
      17. Don't eat the fat or drink the wine of offerings made to other gods.  32:37 (132)
      18. If you hear about a city in which some of the inhabitants are encouraging others to believe in other gods, find out if it is true.  13:12 (152)
      19. If you find that it is true, kill all the people in the city, along with the animals.  13:14 (153)
      20. Then burn the city along with the spoil, and never rebuild it again.  13:16 (154)
      21. Don't be afraid of heathens.  7:20 (157)
      22. Don't allow anyone who uses divination to live in your community.  18:10 (170)
      23. Don't allow anyone who observes times to live in your community.  18:10 (171)
      24. Don't allow any enchanters to live in your community.  18:10 (172)
      25. Don't allow any witches to live in your community.  18:10 (173)
      26. Don't allow any charmers to live in your community.  18:10 (174)
      27. Don't don't allow any consulters with familiar spirits to live in your community.  18:10 (175)
      28. Don't allow any wizards to live in your community.  18:10 (176)
      29. Don't allow any necromancers to live in your community.  18:10 (177)
      30. Don't bring an abomination into your house.  7:26 (179)
      31. Detest and abhor an abomination.  7:26 (180)
      32. Don't cleave to the cursed thing.  13:17 (181)
      33. Don't kill an innocent person for money.  27:25 (1237)
      34. Don't oppress the poor and afflicted.  24:14 (1261)
      35. Don't pervert the judgment of strangers.  24:17 (1270)
      36. Don't pervert the judgment of fatherless children.  24:17 (1271)
      37. Don't pervert the judgment of widows.  27:19 (1272)
      38. Do good.  6:18 (1276)
      39. If you see a donkey or an ox fall down, lift it up.  22:4 (1316)
      40. You may eat grapes from your neighbor's vineyard.  23:24 (1317)
      41. You may pluck kernels of grain from your neighbor's farm.  23:25 (1318)
      42. If you forget to harvest some of your field, leave it for strangers, fatherless children, and widows.  24:19 (1319)
      43. Only beat your olive trees once.  24:20 (1320)
      44. After you pick your grapes, don't pick the ones you missed.  24:21 (1321)
      45. Don't muzzle an ox while it is treading the grain.  25:4 (1322)
      46. Don't smite your neighbor secretly.  27:24 (1343)
      47. Don't remove your neighbor's landmark.  19:14 (1344)
      48. Don't return runaway slaves to their masters.  23:15 (1365)
      49. Let them live with you in peace and freedom.  23:16 (1366)
      50. If you find a lost item, return it to its owner.  22:1 (1388)
      51. When building a roof, make sure it is safe.  22:8 (1389)
      52. Cancel all debts every seven years.  15:1 (403)
      53. Foreingers must pay their debts during "the Lord's release."  15:3 (404)
      54. Lend money during the seventh year, knowing that the loan will soon be forgiven and you won't get your money back.  15:9 (405)
      55. Don't charge interest when loaning money.  23:19 (406)
      56. When loaning money to strangers, it's okay to charge interest.  23:20 (407)
      57. Don't take a man's millstone as collateral in a loan.  24:6 (408)
      58. If you lend someone something, don't go into their house to collect the collateral.  24:10 (409)
      59. Appoint judges, officers, and magistrates.  16:18 (448)
      60. At least two witnesses are required to convict someone of a crime.  17:6 (449)
      61. Punish false witnesses by doing to them what they falsely accused the defendant of doing.  19:16 (450)
      62. If you find a murder victim, have the elders decapitate a heifer, wash their hands, and say, "Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it."  21:1 (451)
      63. Accept as king whomever God chooses.  17:14 (454)
      64. Don't accept a stranger as your king.  17:14 (455)
      65. The king shall not have too many horses.  17:16 (456)
      66. The king shall not take the people to Egypt.  17:16 (457)
      67. The king shall not have too many wives.  17:17 (458)
      68. The king shall not have too much silver and gold.  17:17 (459)
      69. The king must write down all of the commandments.  17:18 (460)
      70. The king must read the commandments every day of his life.  17:19 (461)
      71. When God takes land from other people and gives it to you, don't make any treaties with them.  7:1 (474)
      72. Lend money to other nations.  15:6 (475)
      73. Don't borrow money from other nations.  15:6 (476)
      74. Don't learn to do the abominations of other nations.  18:9 (477)
      75. An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.  23:3 (478)
      76. Don't seek the peace or prosperity of Ammonites or Moabites.  23:3 (479)
      77. Don't abhor Edomites.  23:0 (480)
      78. Don't abhor Egyptians.  23:7 (481)
      79. The grandchildren of Egyptians (and maybe Edomites) may enter the congregation of the Lord.  23:8 (482)
      80. Swear in God's name.  6:13 (485)
      81. If you make a vow to the Lord, you must keep it.  23:21 (490)
      82. If you get leprosy, do whatever the priests tell you to do.  24:8 (897)
      83. Kill and eat whatever your soul lusts after.  12:15 (927)
      84. Don't eat any abominable thing.  14:3 (928)
      85. Eat these animals: oxen, sheep, goats, harts, roebucks, fallow deer, pygargs, and chamois.  14:4 (929)
      86. Eat clean birds.  14:11 (930)
      87. Don't eat fowls that creep and walk upon all four.  14:19 (931)
      88. Eat your firstborn bulls and sheep in the place where God chooses.  15:19 (932)
      89. Don't be a drunkard or a glutton.  21:18 (933)
      90. Women may not wear men's clothing.  22:5 (957)
      91. Men may not wear women's clothing.  22:5 (958)
      92. Don't make any baldness between your eyes for dead people.  14:1 (965)
      93. Prepare a place to go to the bathroom.  23:12 (977)
      94. When you defecate, cover up your excrement.  23:13 (978)
      95. Don't plant trees near God's altar.  16:21 (199)
      96. Males must bring God gifts when they meet with him three times a year.  16:16 (210)
      97. Eat unleavened bread for six days.  16:8 (216)
      98. Write down the Song of Moses and teach people to sing it.  31:19 (262)
      99. A man with damaged testicles or a severed penis may not enter into the congregation of the Lord.  23:1 (278)
      100. A bastard may not enter into the congregation of the Lord.  23:2 (279)
      101. You many not enter into the congregation of the Lord unless you can prove that there were no bastards among your ancestors in the last ten generations.  23:2 (280)
      102. Don't eat your tithe (of corn, wine, oil, and firstlings) inside the gates the your city.  12:17 (285)
      103. Reserve a tenth of your produce each year, including corn, wine, oil, and firstlings of your heard and flocks.  14:22 (286)
      104. Take it to wherever God tells you to take it, and consume it there.  14:34 (287)
      105. If it's too far away to carry everything, then sell your stuff and bring the money instead.  14:24 (288)
      106. When you get there, you can buy oxen, sheep, wine, strong drink -- whatever your soul lusts after.  14:26 (289)
      107. Every three years bring a tenth of your produce to the city gates and leave it for Levites, strangers, the fatherless, and widows.  14:28 (290)
      108. After you finish giving your tithe, say the following words to God:  26:13 (291)
      109. If something comes up and you don't know what to do, go to the place where the Lord chooses and ask a priest to tell you what to do. Then do whatever he says.  17:8 (343)
      110. When you sacrifice an ox or sheep, give the priest the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the maw.  18:3 (344)
      111. Give the priest the firstfruits of your corn, wine, and oil.  18:4 (345)
      112. Also give the priest the first fleece from your sheep.  18:4 (346)
      113. Take your basket of first fruits to the priest.  26:3 (347)
      114. Don't forsake the Levites.  12:19 (371)
      115. If a Levite decides to live in a community, then he must be paid the same as the other Levites that reside there.  18:6 (372)
      116. If a prophet gives you a sign or a wonder and asks you to go after other gods, don't listen to him.  13:1 (381)
      117. Someday God will raise up a prophet and put words in his mouth. When he does, do whatever that prophet tells you to do.  18:15 (382)
      118. Don't be afraid of false prophets.  0:0 (383)

      Deuteronomy

      1. Do all of your burnt offerings, heave offerings, sacrifices, vows, etc. in a special place that God will someday choose for you.  12:5 (806)
      2. If you have a wet dream, go to the special wet dream place and wash with water in the evening before returning to camp.  23:10 (608)
      3. Don't allow any sodomites to live in your community.  23:17 (647)
      4. Don't bring the price of a dog into the house of the Lord.  23:18 (648)
      5. If a city decides not to fight against you, enslave its inhabitants.  20:10 (512)
      6. If a city resists your attack, enslave the women and younger children.  20:12 (513)
      7. Don't be afraid when you go into battle.  20:1 (524)
      8. Before going into battle, a priest shall speak to the soldiers.  20:2 (525)
      9. Men who have recently built houses, shall not fight in wars.  20:5 (526)
      10. Men who have recently planted a vineyard, shall not fight in wars.  20:6 (527)
      11. Men who have recently married, shall not fight in wars.  20:7 (528)
      12. Men who are fearful or fainthearted, shall not fight in wars.  20:8 (529)
      13. When you besiege a city, don't kill the fruit trees.  20:19 (530)
      14. When you besiege a city, kill all the trees that do not bear edible fruit.  20:20 (531)
      15. When God delivers your enemies into your hands, and you see a beautiful woman among the captives, take her home, have sex with her, and marry her (after letting her mourn her parents for a month).  21:10 (532)
      16. If she doesn't fully satisfy you, let her go without selling her.  21:14 (533)
      17. When you go to war, stay away from wicked things.  23:9 (534)
      18. When God takes away land from other people and gives it to you, you must kill all the inhabitants.  7:1 (539)
      19. Have neither mercy nor pity when you to commit a God-commanded genocide.  7:2 (540)
      20. If a city resists your attack, kill every male in the city.  20:12 (541)
      21. When God gives you a city, you must kill everything in it that breathes.  20:16 (542)
      22. Kill Amalekites (men, women, infants and sucklings, ox and sheep, camel and ass).  25:19 (543)
      23. Don't allow any whores to live in your community.  23:17 (706)
      24. Don't bring the hire of a whore into the house of the Lord.  23:18 (707)
      25. If a betrothed virgin is raped in the city, stone her and the rapist to death.  22:23 (724)
      26. If a man rapes a betrothed damsel outside of the city, then kill the man but do nothing to the damsel.  22:25 (725)
      27. If a man rapes an unbetrothed virgin, the rapist must pay her father fifty shekels of silver, marry his victim, and never divorce her.  22:28 (726)

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