613 Mitzvot

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There are traditionally 613 commands in the Torah. But, there are some commands that we are not able to keep by virtue of to whom they are given, or for what purpose! Many, in fact. 

Yeshua Himself, even as Messiah, was not obliged to keep all of them: He was not a priest, so there are many “levitical laws” that He was not obliged to do, even though He had to be perfect to be the Messiah.  He was not beholden to laws spoken to women.

The same is true of us! We are not obliged to keep every single command. We keep the ones that apply to us, just as Yeshua did; and, we find we are able to do them. But, as humans, we sometimes fail. And for that, we STILL need our perfect Savior, who indeed did not fail on one point of the Torah.

“All scripture written by the inspiration of The Ru’akh HaKodesh [including Torah] is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness; so that the people of Elohim may become complete, thoroughly perfected for every good work.” 2 Tim 3:16

Here are the 613 Mitzvot.

Here are the 613 Commandments

Mitzvah	Mitzvah Summary	Are We Able to Keep?	Verse (s)
1	The Shema: God is ONE, Love Him	Yes	D’varim 6:4
2	Love your neighbor as your own soul	Yes	VaYikra 19:18
3	יהוה is your God	Yes	Shemot 20:2
4	Do not make other gods	Yes	Shemot 20:3
5	Do not worship other gods	Yes	Shemot 20:4
6	Do not use His Name falsely	Yes	Shemot 20:6
7	Remember the Sabbath for sanctification	Yes	Shemot 20:7
8	Honor your Father and Mother	Yes	Shemot 20:11
9	Do not murder	Yes	Shemot 20:12
10	Do not commit adultery	Yes	Shemot 20:12
11	Do not steal	Yes	Shemot 20:12
12	Do not bear false witness	Yes	Shemot 20:12
13	Do not covet	Yes	Shemot 20:13
14	Fear יהוה	Yes	D’varim 10:20
15	“Be fruitful, and multiply…”	Yes	B’reshit 1:28
16	Fathers circumcise firstborn into covenant	Yes	B’reshit 17:10
17	Don’t eat the sinew of the thigh	Yes	B’reshit 32:33
18	Aviv and khodesh set the festal year	Yes	Shemot 12:2
19	Keep the Pesakh	Yes	Shemot 12:6
20	Pesakh is 14th of first khodesh	Yes	Shemot 12:6-8
21	Pesakh thoroughly cooked	No	Shemot 12:9
22	Eat entire Pesakh	No	Shemot 12:10
23	Remove leaven from homes on 14th	Yes	Shemot 12:15
24	Eat Matzah on Pesakh	Yes	Shemot 12:18
25	Eat nothing leavened during Pesakh 7 days	Yes	Shemot 12:19
26	No ‘stranger’ is to eat the Pesakh	No	Shemot 12:43
27	No servant, sojourner eats Pesakh	No	Shemot 12:45
28	Don’t take out of house, break no bone	No	Shemot 12:46
29	No one uncircumcised eats Pesakh	No	Shemot 12:48
30	Sanctify firstborn man and beast in the land	No	Shemot 13:2
31	Remember 15th day, continue no khametz	Yes	Shemot 13:3
32	Eat Matzah for seven days during Pesakh	Yes	Shemot 13:7
33	Tell children Pesakh story	Yes	Shemot 13:8
34	Redeem firstborn donkey	No	Shemot 13:13
35	Break neck of donkey unredeemed	No	Shemot 13:13
36	Collect no Manna on the 7th day	No	Shemot 16:29
37	Make no graven image	Yes	Shemot 20:4
38	Do not bow down to idols	Yes	Shemot 20:5
39	Do not work on His Sabbath	Yes	Shemot 20:9
40	Do not make gods of silver and gold	Yes	Shemot 20:20
41	Do not use tools on building His altar	No	Shemot 20:21
42	No steps but a ramp to His altar	No	Shemot 20:22
43	Hebrew servants cannot be for life	No	Shemot 21:2
44	Betrothal of a Hebrew maid servant	No	Shemot 21:9
45	Redeem a Hebrew maid servant	No	Shemot 21:9
46	When not to sell a Hebrew maid servant	No	Shemot 21:9
47	Do not withhold from your wife	No	Shemot 21:10
48	Execute a murderer	No	Shemot 21:12
49	Execute one who strikes his father or mother	No	Shemot 21:15
50	Fines to compensate for damages	No	Shemot 21:19
51	Execute the one who harms the unborn	No	Shemot 21:23
52	Kill the beast that harms a human	Yes	Shemot 21:28
53	Do not eat condemned beast	Yes	Shemot 21:28
54	Compensate for causing injury	Yes	Shemot 21:34
55	Thief repays for stolen goods, plus	Yes	Shemot 21:37
56	Repay for what beast damages	Yes	Shemot 22:4
57	Repay for fire damages	Yes	Shemot 22:5
58	Repayment for stolen goods in custody	Yes	Shemot 22:6-7
59	Hear both sides in every case	Yes	Shemot 22:8
60	Judge between owner and lessor	Yes	Shemot 22:9
61	Damages of borrower	Yes	Shemot 22:13
62	Damages of seduction	Yes	Shemot 22:15
63	Execute a sorceress	No	Shemot 22:17
64	Do not oppress the foreigner	Yes	Shemot 22:20
65	Do not afflict widows or orphans	Yes	Shemot 22:21
66	Be fair in lending,	Yes	Shemot 22:24
67	no interest	Yes	Shemot 22:24
68	Do not curse a ruler	Yes	Shemot 22:27
69	Do not curse God	Yes	Shemot 22:27
70	Offer of your increase to God	Yes	Shemot 22:28
71	Do not eat flesh torn by beasts of the field	Yes	Shemot 22:30
72	Do not suffer nor join in a false report	Yes	Shemot 23:1
73	Do not follow a multitude into error	Yes	Shemot 23:2
74	Do not pervert justice by going with the majority though they are wrong	Yes	Shemot 23:2
75	Do not favor the poor in justice because they are poor	Yes	Shemot 23:3
76	Help a stranger who is stuck	Yes	Shemot 23:5
77	Do not do injustice to the poor because they are poor	Yes	Shemot 23:6
78	Do not execute the righteous or innocent man	Yes	Shemot 23:7
79	Do not be bribed	Yes	Shemot 23:8
80	Do not oppress a foreigner in your homeland	Yes	Shemot 23:9
81	Keep the sh’mitah year	No	Shemot 23:10-11
82	All will rest on the Sabbath Day	Yes	Shemot 23:12
83	Do not use names of other gods	Yes	Shemot 23:13
84	Keep each Khag’s pilgrimage	No	Shemot 23:14,17
85	Keep pilgrimage of Pesakh	No	Shemot 23:15
86	Keep pilgrimage of Khag HaKatzir	No	Shemot 23:16
87	Keep pilgrimage of Khag HaAsif	No	Shemot 23:16
88	Concerning blood and fat of offerings	No	Shemot 23:18
89	Bring the first fruits to the Temple	No	Shemot 23:19
90	Do not seethe a kid in its mother’s milk	Yes	Shemot 23:19
91	Do not worship as Canaanites; destroy their gods	Yes	Shemot 23:24
92	Make no covenant with Canaanites	No	Shemot 23:32
93	Bring an offering for the Mikdash	No	Shemot 25:1-7
94	Make the Mikdash	No	Shemot 25:8
95	Make/use the Aron	No	Shemot 25:10
96	Make/use the Shulkhan	No	Shemot 25:23
97	Make/use the Menorah	No	Shemot 25:31
98	Make/use the Mizbe’akh	No	Shemot 27:1
99	Make/use olive oil for Menorah	No	Shemot 27:20
100	Make/wear priestly garments	No	Shemot 28:4
101	Affix the breastplate with tekhelet	No	Shemot 28:28
103	Kohen will not rend his garment	No	Shemot 28:32
104	Kohen will eat the Khatat and Asham	No	Shemot 29:33
105	Burn the incense	No	Shemot 30:7
106	No strange offerings on the altars	No	Shemot 30:9
107	Half-shekel offering when counted	No	Shemot 30:13
108	Wash when entering the Temple	No	Shemot 30:19-20
109	Make anointing oil	No	Shemot 30:25
110	Do not anoint non-kohenim	No	Shemot 30:32
111	Do not make the sacred anointing oil for other purposes	Yes	Shemot 30:32
112	Do not make the incense for other purposes	Yes	Shemot 30:37
113	Do not eat food / drink offered to an idol	Yes	Shemot 34:12,15 [See Acts 15]
114	Let the land lie fallow in Sh’mitah	No/Yes	Shemot 34:21 ; VaYikra 25:5
115	Do not cook a kid goat in its mother’s milk	Yes	Shemot 34:26
116	No work on the Sabbath Day	Yes	Shemot 35:3
117	Carry out burnt offerings properly	No	VaYikra 1:3
118	Carry out meal offerings properly	No	VaYikra 2:1
119	No leaven or honey with offerings	No	VaYikra 2:11
120	Salt with every offering	No	VaYikra 2:13
121	All of Israel to repent for national sins through offering	No	VaYikra 4:13
122	Sin offering for the individual	No/(Yes)	VaYikra 4:27 / Korintim Bet 5:21
123	Witness must testify in Judgments of Israel	No	VaYikra 5:1
124	Guilt offering	No	VaYikra 5:6
125	Proper offering if sin offering is a bird	No	VaYikra 5:8
126	No olive-oil in an unintentional sinner’s meal-offering	No	VaYikra 5:11
127	No frankincense in an unintentional sinner’s meal offering (Leviticus 5.11)	No	VaYikra 5:11
128	add 1/5 of the value in paying for sanctified food that was eaten	No	VaYikra 5:16
129	suspended guilt-offering for doubtful guilt	No	VaYikra 5:17-18
130	guilt-offering for definite guilt	No	VaYikra 5:23-25
131	return property taken in robbery	Yes	VaYikra 5:23
132	remove the ash from the altar	No	VaYikra 6:3
133	kindle the fire on the altar	No	VaYikra 6:6
134	do not extinguish fire on the altar	No	VaYikra 6:6
135	eat the remainders of meal-offerings	No	VaYikra 6:9
136	Do not make the remainders of meal-offerings become leavened	No	VaYikra 6:10
137	kohen gadol (High Priest) should bring a meal-offering twice a day	No	VaYikra 6:13
138	Min’kha of a kohen should not be eaten	No	VaYikra 6:16
139	Priestly sacrifice of the Khatat (Sin offering)	No/Yes	VaYikra 6:18 Korintim Bet 5:21
140	do not eat of any Khatat whose blood is sprinkled within	No	VaYikra 6:23
141	sacrifice of the ‘asham’ (guilt) offering	No	VaYikra 7:1
142	sacrifice of sh’lamim	No	VaYikra 7:1
143	do not let the flesh of a todah (thank offering) be left over	No	VaYikra 7:15
144	burn leftover remnants of sacred offerings	No	VaYikra 7:17
145	prohibition against “abhorred meat” for Sh’lamim	No	VaYikra 7:18
146	the flesh of defiled offerings is not to be eaten	No	VaYikra 7:19
147	to burn hallowed flesh that became defiled	No	VaYikra 7:19
148	Not to eat khelev, forbidden animal fat of the karban	No	VaYikra 7:23-25
149	not to eat the blood of any beast or fowl	Yes	VaYikra 7:26
150	kohanim may not enter the temple with long hair	No	VaYikra 10:6
151	kohanim may not enter the temple with torn clothes	No	VaYikra 10:6
152	kohanim are not to leave the Temple during their sacred service	No	VaYikra 10:6
153	After drinking wine a kohen should not enter the Sanctuary	No	VaYikra 10:9
154	examine animals to determine if they are food	Yes	VaYikra 11:2
155	do not eat biblically non-food animals	Yes	VaYikra 11:4
156	determine fish as food before eating	Yes	VaYikra 11:9
157	do not eat non-food fish	Yes	VaYikra 11:11
158	do not eat non-food birds	Yes	VaYikra 11:13
159	determine if locust is food before eating	Yes	VaYikra 11:21
160	unclean swarming things and ritual impurity	Yes	VaYikra 11:29
161	ritually impure foods	Yes	VaYikra 11:34
162	unclean carcass ritual impurity	Yes	VaYikra 11:39
163	swarming things that are not food	Yes	VaYikra 11:41
164	a woman is unclean after childbirth	Yes	VaYikra 12:1-5
165	the unclean cannot eat eat of the sacred offering	No	VaYikra 12:4