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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 |
| 166 | Woman’s offering at childbirth | No | VaYikra 12:6 |
| 167 | Ritual cleansing of a Metzorah [leper] | No | VaYikra 13:2 |
| 168 | Do not shave the leprous scall | No | VaYikra 13:33 |
| 169 | A leper should rend his clothes | No | VaYikra 13:45 |
| 170 | A leper in cloth | No | VaYikra 13:47 |
| 171 | Cleansing ingredients for lepers | No | VaYikra 14:2 |
| 172 | Seventh day to shave a leper for cleansing | No | VaYikra 14:9 |
| 173 | Ritual temple immersion for lepers/defiled | No | VaYikra 14:9 |
| 174 | Offering for the leper upon healing | No | VaYikra 14:10 |
| 175 | Unclean house due to leprosy, rites | No | VaYikra 14:35 |