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If a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and ... if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money. 21:20

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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
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    Biblical order, with first occurence

      Exodus

      1. Don't delay in offering your first fruits and liquors to God.  22:29 (760)
      2. Give God your firstborn oxen and sheep eight days after their birth.  22:30 (761)
      3. Every seventh year do not plant or harvest any crops.  23:10 (762)
      4. Bring your first harvest to the house of the Lord.  23:19 (763)
      5. Wear the commandments on your hand.  13:9 (1)
      6. Wear the commandments between your eyes.  13:9 (2)
      7. Kill children who strike their parents.  21:15 (545)
      8. Kill anyone who steals someone with the intention of selling that person as a slave.  21:16 (546)
      9. Kill children who curse their parents. He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. Exodus 21:17 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father  21:17 (547)
      10. Kill anyone who has sex with an animal.  22:19 (549)
      11. Kill anyone who sacrifices to another god.  22:20 (550)
      12. Kill anyone who works on (or defiles) the Sabbath.  31:14 (551)
      13. Cut off anyone who eats leavened bread during the feast of unleavened bread. Whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. Exodus 12:15 Whosoever eateth that w  12:15 (577)
      14. Whoever makes any holy perfume for anyone but God will be cut off.  30:38 (578)
      15. If an ox gores someone to death, the ox shall be stoned.  21:28 (593)
      16. If an ox has a reputation for goring people and its owner did nothing to restrain it, the ox shall be stoned and its owner shall be executed.  21:29 (594)
      17. If the victim's family would rather have money, then the owner of the ox must pay them whatever they demand.  21:30 (595)
      18. If an ox kills a slave, stone it to death.  21:32 (596)
      19. If you damage another person, you will be damaged in the same way.  21:24 (601)
      20. If you seduce and have sex with an unmarried woman, you must marry her.  22:16 (655)
      21. If her father refuses to give her to you, you must pay him the customary price for virgins.  22:17 (656)
      22. If a man takes another wife, he must continue to feed, clothe, and have sex with his first wife.  21:10 (682)
      23. If, after taking a second wife, a man fails to feed, clothe, and have sex with his first wife, he must set her free.  21:10 (683)
      24. Give your firstborn son to God.  13:2 (685)
      25. If a man causes the death of a fetus, he shall pay the woman's husband whatever the judges decide.  21:22 (695)
      26. But if the woman is injured, the man who caused her injury shall be injured in the same way.  21:23 (696)
      27. Be holy.  22:31 (1415)
      28. Return your enemy's ox or ass if it goes astray.  23:4 (1416)
      29. If your enemy's ass falls down, help with it.  23:5 (1417)
      30. Don't kill righteous people.  23:7 (1418)
      31. Don't take God's name in vain.  20:7 (18)
      32. Serve God.  23:25 (19)
      33. Give God some presents  25:1 (20)
      34. Make some holy perfume for God.  30:34 (22)
      35. Don't make any of God's holy perfume for your own use.  30:37 (23)
      36. Worship the god whose name is Jealous.  34:14 (24)
      37. Don't appear before God empty.  34:20 (25)
      38. Have no other gods before Yahweh.  20:3 (114)
      39. Don't make any graven images.  20:4 (115)
      40. Don't make an artistic representation of anything. Thou shalt not make ... any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Exodus 20:4b Lest ye corrup  20:4 (116)
      41. Don't bow down to other gods.  20:5 (117)
      42. Don't serve other gods.  20:5 (118)
      43. Don't make gods of silver or gold.  20:23 (119)
      44. Don't revile the gods.  22:28 (120)
      45. Don't mention the names of other gods.  23:13 (121)
      46. Don't make treaties with other gods.  23:32 (122)
      47. Don't make any molten gods.  34:17 (123)
      48. Don't serve or follow people who believe in other gods.  23:24 (148)
      49. Conquer people who believe in other gods and destroy their religious property.  23:24 (149)
      50. Don't make treaties with people who believe in other gods.  23:32 (150)
      51. Don't let people who believe in other gods live in your land.  23:33 (151)
      52. Don't kill.  20:13 (1235)
      53. Don't kill innocent people.  23:7 (1236)
      54. Don't commit adultery.  20:14 (1238)
      55. Honor your father and mother.  20:12 (1243)
      56. Don't steal.  20:15 (1248)
      57. Don't lie.  20:16 (1251)
      58. Don't make false accusations.  23:6 (1252)
      59. Don't oppress strangers.  22:21 (1259)
      60. Don't afflict widows and fatherless children.  22:22 (1266)
      61. Don't do evil just because everyone else is.  23:2 (1275)
      62. Don't deny justice to poor people.  23:6 (1292)
      63. Don't accept a bribe.  23:8 (1306)
      64. Don't covet your neighbor's house, slave, ox, ass, etc.  20:17 (387)
      65. Circumcised strangers shall be treated as though they were natives.  12:48 (419)
      66. The law applies to both strangers and homeborn residents.  12:49 (420)
      67. If two men fight and one is injured, the man who caused the injury shall pay for the injured man's lost time.  21:0 (421)
      68. If a man has an open pit into which an ox or ass falls, the owner of the pit must pay the owner of the animal whatever it was worth, but the owner of the pit gets to keep the dead animal.  21:33 (422)
      69. If one man's ox kills another man's ox, then the live ox shall be sold with the money and dead ox split between them.  21:35 (423)
      70. If an ox is known to be an ox killer and its owner did nothing to restrain it, then the owner of the killer ox must pay the owner of the dead ox. But the owner of the killer ox gets to keep the dead ox.  21:36 (424)
      71. A person who steals and kills an ox or a sheep shall pay the owner five oxen for each stolen ox, and four sheep for each stolen sheep.  22:1 (425)
      72. If a thief is caught breaking into a house while it is dark and is killed in the process, the person who killed him shall not be executed.  22:2 (426)
      73. If a thief is caught breaking into a house during the daytime and is killed in the process, the person who killed the thief shall be executed for murder.  22:23 (427)
      74. If a thief steals an ox or an ass, and the stolen animal is found alive, the thief must pay twice the value of the stolen animal.  22:4 (428)
      75. If your animal eats from someone else's field or vineyard, you must repay the owner with the best of your grain or grapes.  22:5 (429)
      76. If you start a fire that burns someone else's grain, you shall restore what was burned.  22:6 (430)
      77. If you leave your stuff with your neighbor to watch, and it is stolen from your neighbor's house, then the thief shall pay double (if the thief is found).  22:7 (431)
      78. If the thief is not found, your neighbor shall be brought before the judges to see if he stole your stuff.  22:8 (432)
      79. Whoever is guilty of theft shall repay the victim twice the worth of the stolen goods.  22:9 (433)
      80. If you ask your neighbor to watch your ox or ass, and your animal dies, is hurt, or is lost while under his care, then your neighbor shall swear to God that he didn't do anything wrong. If God confirms the oath, your neighbor does not have to pay yo  22:10 (434)
      81. If your animal was torn in pieces while under your neighbor's care, he shall bring the pieces as a witness, and he doesn't owe you anything.  22:13 (435)
      82. If someone borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies, the person who borrowed the animal must pay the owner whatever the animal was worth.  22:14 (436)
      83. But if the owner was present or the animal was rented, no compensation is required.  22:15 (437)
      84. Don't provide favorable testimony for a guilty person.  23:1 (438)
      85. Don't pervert justice by wrongly following the majority.  23:2 (439)
      86. Don't favor poor people in lawsuits.  23:3 (440)
      87. Don't curse the ruler of your people.  22:28 (453)
      88. Don't eat the flesh of a stoned ox.  21:28 (913)
      89. Don't boil a young goat in its mother's milk.  23:19 (914)
      90. Don't eat any animal (or its fat) that died of natural causes or was killed by other animals.  22:31 (915)
      91. If you find an animal that has died of natural causes or was killed by other animals, feed it to the dogs or strangers, or sell it to aliens.  22:31 (916)
      92. Make a dirt altar for God and sacrifice animals on it.  20:24 (184)
      93. If you make God stone altars, use natural, uncut stones.  20:25 (185)
      94. Don't go up steps to the altar.  20:26 (186)
      95. Make a sanctuary for God.  25:8 (187)
      96. Don't remove the staves from the Ark.  25:15 (188)
      97. Put some bread in front of God and let it remain there always.  25:30 (189)
      98. Make a tabernacle according to the following instructions.  26:1 (190)
      99. Make a court for the tabernacle.  27:9 (191)
      100. Get some oil for the lamp and keep it burning forever.  27:20 (192)
      101. Make an altar for burning incense.  30:1 (193)
      102. Burn sweet incense on the altar every morning and evening forever.  30:7 (194)
      103. Don't burn any strange incense on the incense-burning altar.  30:9 (195)
      104. Don't offer any burnt, meat, or drink offerings on God's special incense-burning altar.  30:9 (196)
      105. The month of Nisan shall the be first month of the year.  12:2 (207)
      106. Celebrate three feasts during the year: unleavened bread, the first harvest, and the last harvest.  23:14 (208)
      107. Three times a year every male must appear before God.  23:17 (209)
      108. The fourteenth day of the month of Nisan shall forever be a memorial and feast.  12:3 (212)
      109. Don't work on the first day of the feast of unleavened bread.  12:16 (213)
      110. Don't work on the seventh day of the feast of unleavened bread.  12:16 (214)
      111. Observe the feast of unleavened bread.  12:17 (215)
      112. Eat unleavened bread for seven days.  12:15 (217)
      113. Eat unleavened bread from the evening of the 14th until the evening of the 21st of Nisan.  12:18 (218)
      114. During the feast of unleavened bread, remove all yeast from every house.  12:15 (219)
      115. When your children ask what is the meaning of Passover, tell them about how God killed the Egyptian children.  12:26 (220)
      116. Strangers shall not eat the Passover meal.  12:43 (221)
      117. Foreigners shall not eat the Passover meal.  12:43 (222)
      118. Hired servants shall not eat the Passover meal.  12:43 (223)
      119. No uncircumcised person shall eat the Passover meal.  12:43 (224)
      120. Circumcised strangers must keep the Passover.  12:48 (225)
      121. On the Passover, show your son what God did to you when you left Egypt.  13:8 (226)
      122. When your son asks you why your are sacrificing lambs and breaking donkeys' necks, tell him that you are doing it because God killed all the Egyptian firstborn children and animals.  13:14 (227)
      123. Don't leave your house during the Sabbath.  16:29 (233)
      124. Keep the Sabbath day holy.  20:8 (234)
      125. Don't work on the Sabbath.  20:9 (235)
      126. Don't start a fire on the Sabbath.  35:3 (236)
      127. Make every male descendant of Aaron a priest.  28:1 (295)
      128. Make holy garments for the priests.  28:0 (296)
      129. Ordain priests according to the following instructions. Get a young bull, two unblemished rams, some unleavened bread, oiled cakes, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Put the bread in a basket and bring the bull and two rams.  29:1 (297)
      130. Make a brass bowl for priests to wash their hands and feet.  30:18 (298)
      131. Priests must wash their hands and feet before entering the tabernacle.  30:19 (299)
      132. Make some holy anointing oil.  30:23 (300)
      133. Anoint the tabernacle, the ark of the covenant, the table, all of the bowls and candlesticks, the incense-burning altar, the brass bowl with the holy anointing oil.  30:26 (301)
      134. Anoint priests with the holy anointing oil.  30:30 (302)
      135. Don't make any of God's special oil for any other purpose.  30:30 (303)
      136. Don't put this oil on anyone else.  30:32 (304)
      137. Every firstborn donkey shall be redeemed by sacrificing a lamb.  13:13 (782)
      138. If a firstborn donkey is not redeemed, break its neck.  13:13 (783)
      139. When you make blood sacrifices to God, don't include any leavened bread.  23:18 (784)
      140. Don't let any of the fat of God's sacrifice remain until the next morning.  23:18 (785)
      141. On the tenth day of Nisan, find an unblemished lamb and kill it on the evening of the 14th day.  12:3 (823)
      142. After killing the lamb, smear some of its blood on the sides and top of your door post.  12:7 (824)
      143. Roast the lamb and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.  12:8 (825)
      144. Don't eat the lamb raw or sodden with water.  12:9 (826)
      145. Eat all of it.  12:9 (827)
      146. Don't leave any until the morning.  12:10 (828)
      147. Burn the leftovers.  12:9 (829)
      148. Eat it fast, with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand.  12:11 (830)
      149. Don't covet your neighbor's wife.  20:17 (640)
      150. Let your circumcised slaves eat the Passover meal.  12:43 (491)
      151. If you buy a Hebrew slave, set him free after six years of slavery.  21:2 (492)
      152. If he was married when you bought him, set the slave and his wife free after six years of slavery.  21:3 (493)
      153. If you gave him a wife and they had children, keep your slave's wife and children and let him go free.  21:4 (494)
      154. If he refuses to leave his wife and children, bore a hole in his ear and he shall serve you forever.  21:5 (495)
      155. If you sell your daughter, she shall not be freed after six years (as are male Hebrew slaves).  21:7 (496)
      156. If your daughter fails to please her master, she shall be redeemed.  21:8 (497)
      157. If the man who bought your daughter gives her to his son, the man who bought her shall treat her as his own daughter.  21:9 (498)
      158. A slave owner who beats his slave to death shall be punished.  21:20 (499)
      159. A slave owner shall not be punished for beating his slave if the slave lives for a day or two, for the slave is the slave owner's money.  21:20 (500)
      160. If a man hits his slave and causes the slave to lose sight in one eye, he shall set the slave free.  21:26 (501)
      161. If a man hits his slave and causes the slave to lose a tooth, he shall set the slave free.  21:27 (502)
      162. If an ox kills a slave, the owner of the ox shall give the owner of the dead slave thirty shekels of silver.  21:32 (503)
      163. If a thief is caught and is too poor to make full restitution, he shall be sold to pay for his theft.  22:2 (504)

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