Leviticus: Commandments - Every Jot and Tittle

1. Sacrifice an unblemished young bull as a burnt offering. 1:2-9

2. Sacrifice an unblemished male sheep (or goat) as a burnt offering. 1:10-13

3. Sacrifice a dove or pigeon as a burnt offering. 1:14-17

4. Make a meat offering to the Lord. 2:1-10, 6:14-18

5. Don't use yeast or honey in your meat offerings. 2:11

6. When you are making your oblation of first fruits to God, don't burn them on the altar. 2:12

7. Season your meat offerings with salt. 2:13

8. Make meat offerings of your first fruits. 2:14-15

9. Make peace offerings with cattle. 3:1-5

10. Make peace offerings with lambs. 3:6-11

11. Make peace offerings with goats. 3:12-16

12. Don't eat any fat, not even in your own home. 3:16-17

13. When making your peace offerings remember this: All the fat is the Lord's! 3:16-17

14. Don't eat blood. 3:17, 7:26, 17:12-14, 19:26

15. If a priest sins through ignorance, he must kill an unblemished bullock (or an unblemished ram). 4:2-12

16. If the congregation sins through ignorance, kill a bullock (blemished or unblemished). 4:13-21

17. If a ruler sins through ignorance, kill a young unblemished male goat. 4:22-26

18. If an ordinary person sins through ignorance, kill a young unblemished female sheep or goat. 4:27-35

19. If you see or hear something, say something. 5:1

20. Don't accidentally touch an unclean thing, like a dead beast, cow, or creeping thing. 5:2

21. Don't accidentally touch the uncleanness of man. 5:3

22. Don't unknowingly swear to do something evil or good. 5:4

23. If you commit any of these four sins, then you must confess that you have sinned and kill a female lamb or young goat as a trespass offering. 5:5-6

24. If you can't afford a lamb, kill two doves or pigeons instead; one as a sin offering and one as a burnt offering. 5:7-10

25. If you can't afford birds, burn one tenth of an ephah of your best flour. 5:11-13

26. If you unknowingly defile some holy things, kill an unblemished ram or pay the priests whatever such a ram is worth. In addition you must pay the priests a 20% fine. 5:15-16

27. If you sin without knowing it, you are still guilty. Kill an unblemished ram for a trespass offering. 5:17-19

28. A thief must return what was stolen plus 20%. 6:2-5

29. If you sin against your neighbor by lying, stealing, or violence, kill an unblemished ram as a trespass offering. 6:2-7

30. Burnt offerings must burn all night on the altar. 6:9

31. Priests must wear special linen garments and breeches on their flesh while making animal sacrifices. 6:10

32. They must dump the ashes outside the camp in a clean place. 6:10-11

33. The fire on the altar must never go out. 6:12-13

34. Ordain priests according to the following instructions. 6:20-23, 8:1-35

35. Meat offerings must be completely burnt. 6:23a

36. Meat offerings may not be eaten. 6:23b

37. Priests must eat sin offerings in the holy place. 6:25-26

38. Anyone or anything that touches the flesh of the sin offering is holy. 6:25-27

39. If the blood of a sin offering is sprinkled on a garment, it must be washed in the holy place. 6:25-27

40. If a sin offering is boiled in an earthen vessel, the vessel must be broken. 6:25-28

41. If it's boiled in a brass pot, the pot must be scoured and rinsed with water. 6:25-28

42. Don't eat a sin offering if its blood has entered the tabernacle. 6:30

43. The law of the most holy trespass offering 7:1-10

44. The law of the peace offering 7:11-14

45. A peace offering must be eaten the same day that the animal is killed. No leftovers are allowed. 7:15, 19:5

46. If the sacrifice is a vow or voluntary, you can eat some of the animal on the day it is killed and the some the next day. Burn whatever is left on the third day. 7:16-17, 19:6

47. Don't eat a peace offering on the third day after the animal is sacrificed. 7:18, 19:7-8

48. If any of the flesh of your peace offering touches any unclean thing, don't eat it. 7:18-19a

49. If any of the flesh of your peace offering touches any unclean thing, burn it with fire. 7:18-19b

50. Eat all of the clean flesh from your peace offering. 7:18-19c

51. If yout eat the flesh of a peace offering whole you have your uncleanness upon you, you will be cut off. 7:20

52. If you touch an unclean thing (like the uncleanness of man, or an unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing) while eating the flesh of a peace offering, you will be cut off. 7:21

53. Don't eat any animal (or its fat) that died of natural causes or was killed by other animals. 7:24, 22:8

54. Cut off anyone who eats blood. 7:27, 17:14

55. Make a wave offering. 7:29-34

56. Make a heave offering. 7:32-34

57. Priests must not drink alcohol when they go into the tablernacle. 10:8-9

58. Distinguish between animals that you may and may not eat. 11:2

59. Eat animals that part the hoof, are clovenfootted, and chew the cud. 11:3

60. Camels, conies, hares, and swine are unlcean. 11:4-8

61. Don't eat camels, conies, hares, or swine. 11:4-8

62. Eat animals that live in water and have fins and scales. 11:9

63. Animals that live in the water but don't have fins or scales are abominations. 11:10-12

64. Don't eat animals that live in the water but don't have fins or scales. 11:10-12

65. The carcases of animals that live in the water but don't have fins or scales are abominations. 11:10-12

66. The following birds are abominations: eagles, vultures, ospreys, kites, ravens, owls, nighthawks, hawks, cuckoos, cormorants, swans, pelicans, storks, herons, lapwings, and bats. 11:13-19

67. The following birds may not be eaten: eagles, vultures, ospreys, kites, ravens, owls, nighthawks, hawks, cuckoos, cormorants, swans, pelicans, storks, herons, lapwings, and bats. 11:13-19

68. All four-legged creeping fouls shall be an abomination to you. 11:20

69. Don't eat fowls that creep and walk upon all four. 11:20

70. All flying creeping things are abominations, except for those that go on all four and have legs above their feet. 11:21-23

71. Eat flying creeping things that walk on four with legs above their feet. Among these are locusts, beetles, and grasshoppers. 11:21-23

72. If you touch the carcase of an unclean animal you must wash your clothes and be unclean until the evening. 11:23-31

73. All beasts that go on all four paws are unclean to you. 11:27

74. These animals are also unclean: weasels, mice, tortoises, ferrets, chameleons, lizards, snails, and moles. 11:29-30

75. Whatever a dead unclean animal touches is be unclean. 11:32-38

76. If an animal that may be eaten dies of natural causes and you eat it, wash your clothes. After your clothes are washed, you will be unclean until evening. 11:39-40

77. Every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth is an abomination. 11:41

78. Don't eat creeping things that creep on the earth. 11:41

79. Don't eat any animal that crawls on its belly, goes on all four, or has lots of feet. 11:42

80. Any animal that crawls on its belly, goes on all four, or has lots of feet is an abomination. 11:42

81. Don't make yourself abominable, defiled, or unclean with creeping things. 11:43-44

82. Be holy. 11:44, 19:2, 20:7, 20:26

83. A woman is unclean for seven days after delivering a male child. 12:2

84. After this unlcean period is over, she must be purified for another 33 days. 12:4a

85. While a woman is being purified after childbirdh, she may not come into the sanctuary or touch any holy thing. 12:4b

86. A woman is unclean for two weeks after delivering a female child. 12:5a

87. After this unlcean period is over, she must be purified for another 66 days. 12:5b

88. Circumcise boys eight days after their birth. 12:3

89. After childbirth, the mother must kill a lamb for a burnt offering and a dove or pigeon for a sin offering. 12:6-8

90. Leprosy must be diagnosed by a priest. 13:2-3a

91. A person who suffers from leprosy is unclean. 13:3b

92. The following procedure must be used to diagnose leprosy. 13:4-28

93. A priest must diagnose dry itch. 13:29-30a

94. A person with dry itch is unclean. 13:30b

95. The following procedure must be used to diagnose dry itch. 13:31-37

96. A priest must diagnose freckles. 13:38-39a

97. A person with a freckle is clean. 13:39b

98. If a man has hair fall off of his head, he is bald but he is clean. 13:40

99. If a man has hair fall off the part of his head that is toward his face, he is forehead bald but he is clean. 13:41

100. If there is a white reddish sore on the bald man's head, the priest will declare him unclean. 13:42-44

101. People with leprosy must destroy their clothes, not wear hats, and cover up their upper lips while shouting, "Unclean, Unclean!" 13:45

102. People with leprosy are defiled. 13:46a

103. They must live completely alone. 13:46b

104. The law of the plague of leprosy in a garment. 13:47-59

105. Perform this ceremony after you are healed of leprosy. 14:1-32

106. Perform these sacrifices after being cleansed of leprosy. 14:2-32

107. What to do when your house has leprosy. 14:33-53

108. A man with a running issue out of his flesh is unclean, whether it drips or not. 15:1-3

109. Whatever he touches is also unclean. 15:4, 9

110. If you touch his bed, you must wash your clothes, take a bath, and be unclean until the evening. 15:5

111. If you sit on anything upon which he sat, you must wash your clothes, take a bath, and be unclean until the evening. 15:6 10

112. If you touch his flesh, you must wash your clothes, take a bath, and be unclean until the evening. 15:7

113. If he spits on you, then you must wash your clothes, take a bath, and be unclean until the evening. 15:8

114. If he touches you and he hasn't washed his hands, then you must wash your clothes, take a bath, and be unclean until the evening. 15:11

115. If he touches a clay pot, it must be broken. If he touches a wood pot, it must be washed. 15:12

116. When the man with the running issue out of his flesh is cleansed of his issue, he must wait seven days and then wash his clothes and take a bath. 15:13

117. On the eighth day after a man is cleansed of a running issue out of his flesh, he must bring two doves or two pigeons to a priest who will kill one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering. 15:13-15

118. Whenever a "man's seed of copulation go out from him," he must wash in water and be unclean until evening. 15:16

119. Any clothing or skin that has come into contact with semen must be washed in water. They are unclean until the evening. 15:17

120. If a woman was with the man when his seed of copulation went out from him, she must take a bath and be unclean until the evening. 15:18

121. A menstruating woman must be isolated for seven days. 15:19a

122. Whoever touches her is unclean until the evening. 15:19b

123. Everything that she touches is unclean, including whatever she sits upon. 15:20

124. If you touch her bed, you must wash your clothes, take a bath, and be unclean until the evening. 15:21

125. If you touch anything that she has sat on, you must take a bath and be unclean until the evening. 15:22-23

126. If a man has sex with a menstruating woman, he is unclean for seven days. 15:24

127. If a woman has vaginal bleeding outside of her regular menstrual period, she is unclean. 15:25

128. Sacrifices required after abnormal vaginal bleeding 15:25-30

129. Every bed, chair, or other object that she touches in such a condition is also unclean. 15:26

130. If you touch anything that she has touched, you must wash your clothes, take a bath, and be unclean until the evening. 15:27

131. Priests should be careful when entering the holy place. If a priest comes at the wrong time, God will kill him. 16:1-2

132. Perform each year's Yom Kippur sacrifices. 16:3-34

133. You must afflict your soul on the tenth day of the seventh month. 16:29, 23:27

134. Don't do any work on the tenth day of the seventh month. 16:29, 23:27-32

135. Kill your animal sacrifices at the door of the tabernacle. 17:1-9

136. Don't sacrifice animals to devils. 17:7

137. When you kill an animal while hunting, pour its blood on the ground and cover it with dirt. 17:13

138. Don't do after the doings of the Egyptians and Canaanites. 18:3

139. Don't uncover the nakedness of any of your near relatives. 18:6

140. Don't uncover the nakedness of your father. 18:7a

141. Don't uncover the nakedness of your mother. 18:7b

142. Don't uncover the nakedness of your father's wife. 18:8

143. Don't uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father. 18:9a

144. Don't uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your mother. 18:9b

145. Don't uncover the nakedness of your granddaughter, the daughter of your son. 18:10a

146. Don't uncover the nakedness of your granddaughter, the daughter of your daughter. 18:10b

147. Don't uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter. 18:11

148. Don't uncover the nakendess of your father's sister. 18:12, 20:19

149. Don't uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister. 18:13, 20:20

150. Don't uncover the nakedness of your father's brother. 18:14a

151. Don't uncover the nakedness of your father's brother's wife. 18:14b

152. Don't uncover the nakedness of your son's wife. 18:15

153. Don't uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife. 18:16

154. Don't uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. 18:17a

155. Don't uncover the nakedness of a woman and her granddaughter (her son's daughter). 18:17b

156. Don't uncover the nakedness of a woman and her granddaughter (her daughter's daughter). 18:17c

157. Don't marry your wife's sister while your wife is still alive. 18:18

158. Don't approach a menstruating woman to uncover her nakedness. 18:19

159. Don't have sex with your neighbor's wife. 18:20

160. If you are a man, don't have sex with another man. It is abomination. 18:22

161. Don't burn your children to death. 18:21a

162. Don't profane God's name. 18:21a, 19:12, 22:32

163. Don't have sex with animals. 18:23

164. Fear your mother and father. 19:3a

165. Keep the Sabbath day holy. 19:3b, 30; 26:2

166. Don't turn to idols. 19:4a

167. Don't make any molten gods. 19:4b

168. If you eat a peace offering on the third day after the animal is sacrificed, you will be cut off. 19:5-8

169. Leave the corners of your field and some of your grapes in your vineyard unharvested for poor people and strangers to eat. 19:9-10, 23:22

170. Don't lie. 19:11

171. Don't steal. 19:11, 13

172. Don't swear falsely in God's name. 19:12

173. Don't defraud. 19:13a

174. Pay your workers at the end of each working day. 19:13b

175. Don't curse deaf people. 19:14a

176. Don't cause a blind person to stumble. 19:14b

177. Fear God. 19:14c, 32; 25:17, 36, 43

178. Judge others fairly. 19:15

179. Don't gossip. 19:16a

180. Don't endanger the life of your neighbor. 19:16b

181. Don't hate your brother. 19:17a

182. Rebuke your neighbors. 19:17b

183. Don't seek revenge against your own people. 19:18a

184. Grudge not. 19:18b

185. Love your neighbor as yourself. 19:18c

186. Obey all of the commandments. 19:19a, 37; 20:8, 22; 22:31; 25:18

187. Don't crossbreed your animals. 19:19b

188. Don't plant crops with mixed seed. 19:19c

189. Don't wear a garment made from different kinds of fibers. 19:19d

190. If a man has sex with another man's concubine, scourge the concubine and kill a goat for the man's trespass offering. 19:20-22

191. Don't eat fruit from a tree for the first three years of its life. 19:23

192. The fruit that a tree produces during its fourth year is holy and must be offered to God. 19:24

193. Eat fruit that a tree produces during its fifth year. 19:25

194. Don't use enchantment. 19:26

195. Don't observe times. 19:26

196. Don't round the corners of your head. 19:27a

197. Don't ruin the corners of your beard. 19:27b

198. Don't cut your skin for dead people. 19:28a

199. Don't have any tattoos on your body. 19:28b

200. Don't force your daughter to become a whore. 19:29

201. Revere God's sanctuary. 19:30, 26:2

202. Don't go a whoring after people with familiar spirits. 19:31, 20:6

203. Stand in the presence of old people. 19:32a

204. Honor the face of an old man. 19:32b

205. Don't vex strangers. 19:33

206. Love the stranger as yourself. 19:34

207. Don't cheat. 19:35-36

208. Stone to death parents who sacrifice their children to Molech. 20:2-5

209. Don't seek after wizards. 19:31, 20:6

210. Kill children who curse their parents. 20:9

211. If a man has sex with another man's wife, kill them both. 20:10

212. If a man has sex with his father's wife, kill them both. 20:11

213. If a man has sex with his daughter in law, kill them both. 20:12

214. If a man has sex with another man, they have committed an abomination. Kill them both. 20:13

215. If a man "takes" a wife and her mother, burn all three. 20:14

216. Kill anyone who has sex with an animal. 20:15-16

217. Kill any animal that has sex with a human. 20:15-16

218. If a man has sex with his sister or half-sister, they shall be cut off. 20:17

219. If a man has sex with a menstruating woman, they shall be cut off. 20:18

220. Don't have sex with your uncle's wife. 20:20

221. Don't take your brother's wife. 20:21

222. Don't walk in the manners of the nations that God destroyed for you. 20:23

223. Distinguish between clean and unclean animals. 20:25

224. If you fail to distinguish between clean and unclean animals, your soul will be abominable to God. 20:25

225. Stone to death wizards. 20:27a

226. Stone to death people with familiar spirits. 20:27b

227. A priest shall not defile himself by touching a dead body. 21:1

228. A priest may defile himself with dead close relatives. 21:2-3

229. Priests must not make any baldness on their heads. 21:5a

230. Or shave off the corners of their beards. 21:5b

231. Or make any cuttings on their flesh. 21:5c

232. A priest must be holy to God. 21:6a

233. A priest must not profane God's name. 21:6b

234. A priest shall not marry a whore. 21:7a

235. Or a profane woman. 21:7b

236. Or a divorced woman. 21:7c

237. Sanctify priests. 21:8

238. If the daughter of a priest plays the whore, burn her to death. 21:9

239. A high priest must not uncover his head. 21:10a

240. Or tear his clothes. 21:10b

241. He must marry a virgin from his own people. 21:10-13, 14

242. He must not get near any dead bodies, even those of his father or mother. 21:11

243. He shall not go out of the sanctuary. 21:12a

244. Or profane the sanctuary. 21:12b

245. A high priest may not marry a widow. 21:14a

246. Or a divorced woman. 21:14b

247. Or a profane woman. 21:14c

248. Or a harlot. 21:14d

249. He must not profane his seed among the people. 21:15

250. He must not have any blemish. 21:17-23

251. Priests must stay away from holy things when they are unclean. 22:1-3

252. A priest who has leprosy may not eat holy things. 22:4a

253. A priest with a running isuue may not eat holy things. 22:4b

254. A priest who has touched an unclean dead thing may not eat holy things. 22:4c-6

255. A priest whose seed has gone from him may not eat holy things. 22:4d-6

256. A priest who has touched a creeping thing may not eat holy things. 22:5-6

257. No stranger shall eat of the holy thing. 22:10a

258. No one who is visiting a priest shall eat of the holy thing. 22:10b

259. No hired servant of a priest shall eat of the holy thing. 22:10c

260. If a priest buys a slave, the slave and his family may eat the priest's meat. 22:11

261. If a priest's daughter marries a stranger, she may not eat holy things. 22:12

262. If a priest's daughter returns to her father's house after she is divorced or widowed, she can eat of her father's meat, as long as she didn't have any children while she was married. 22:13

263. If you eat the holy thing by mistake, you must pay the priest for it, plus a 20% fine. 22:14

264. Don't profane the holy things that Jews offer and eat. 22:15-16

265. Don't offer God any blemished animals. 22:18-24, 22, 24

266. When making a vow, don't offer God any animals with extra or missing body parts. 22:23a

267. But animals with extra or missing body parts may be used in freewill offerings. 22:23b

268. Don't get your sacrificial animals from strangers. 22:25

269. Wait until a bullock, sheep, or goat is eight days old before killing and burning its dead body for God. 22:27

270. Don't kill a newborn animal and its mother on the same day. 22:28

271. Don't leave any until the morning. 22:30

272. Hallow God's name. 22:32

273. Don't work on the Sabbath. 23:3

274. Don't work on the first day of the feast of unleavened bread. 23:7

275. On each of the seven days of Passover, kill and burn two young bulls, one ram, and seven first-year lambs. 23:8a

276. Don't work on the seventh day of the feast of unleavened bread. 23:8b

277. Offer the first fruits of your harvest to God as a wave offering, with an unblemished one-year old lamb as a burnt offering. Include a meat offering and a liter of wine. 23:10-13

278. Don't eat any bread or grain until you offer God the harvest sacrifice. 23:14

279. Count fifty days after the wave-offering Sabbath. 23:15-16

280. Have a holy convocation fifty days after the wave-offerig Sabbath. 23:15-21

281. Don't do any work on the holy convocation day. 23:15-21

282. Fifty days after the harvest sacrifice, kill seven unblemished year-old lambs, one young bullock, two rams, one young goat, and two more year-old lambs. 23:15-21

283. Include two loaves of bread when you're sacficing the seven lambs. 23:17

284. On the first day of the seventh month have a trumpet-blowing sabbath, a holy convocation. 23:24-25

285. Don't do any work on the first day of the seventh month. 23:25c

286. On the tenth day of the seventh month there shall be a day of atonement, a holy convocation. 23:27a

287. If you don't afflict your soul on the tenth day of the seventh month, you will be cut off. 23:27-29

288. The seven-day feast of tabernacles begins of the fifteenth day of the seventh month. 23:34

289. Don't do any work on the first day of the feast of tabernacles. 23:34-35

290. During the seven-day feast of tabernacles rejoice with tree and palm branches. 23:34-41

291. Don't do any work on the eighth day of the feast of tabernacles. 23:34-41

292. Dwell in booths for seven days in the feast of the seventh month. 23:42-43

293. Get some oil for the lamp and keep it burning forever. 24:1-4

294. Bake twelve cakes and set them before the Lord. 24:5-9

295. Kill whoever kills another person. 24:14, 17

296. Stone to death blasphemers. 24:16

297. If you kill someone else's animal, replace it. 24:18, 21

298. If you damage another person, you will be damaged in the same way. 24:19

299. The same laws apply to strangers as to those who live in the country. 24:22

300. Every seventh year do not plant or harvest any crops. 25:2-7

301. Every 49 years, blow a trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. 25:8-9

302. Declare a jubilee year every 50 years. 25:10a

303. Return to your family on the jubilee year. 25:10b

304. During the jubilee year, don't sow, reap, or gather grapes. 25:11

305. On each Jubilee year, return all purchased property to the original owners. 25:13, 23:24

306. Don't oppress one another. 25:14

307. Buy and sell property based on the number of years since the last jubilee, with the price proportional to the number of years until the next jubilee year. 25:14-17

308. Don't worry about what you'll eat on the seventh year when you plant no crops. 25:20-22

309. Don't sell real estate. 25:23

310. If you buy land, you must allow the seller the right to buy it back. 25:24

311. If one of your poor relatives is forced to sell land, then you must buy it, with the usual Jubilee year pricing. 25:25-28

312. If you sell a house in a walled city, you have the right to buy it back within a year after the sale. 25:29-30

313. If you sell a house in an village without a wall, you may buy it back whenever you like. 25:31

314. The Levites' cities are their possessions, which they may redeem at any time. 25:32-33

315. The fields in the suburbs of the Levites' cities may never be sold. 25:34

316. Help the poor.

317. If you lend money to poor people, don't charge them interest. 25:35-37

318. If someone in your country becomes poor and is sold to you as a slave, treat that person as a servant, not as a slave, and set him free on the next jubilee year. 25:39

319. When you buy slaves, buy a heathen from a nearby country. 25:44

320. You may also buy slaves that are strangers, or their children that are born in your land. 25:45

321. Your slaves are your property and your children will inherit them after you die. They will be your family's slaves forever. 25:46

322. If a foreigner buys someone who lives in this country, the slave may be bought back by the slave's family, with the usual jubilee year pricing. 25:47-54

323. Don't make idols. 26:1a

324. Don't make any graven images. 26:1b

325. Don't rear up a standing image. 26:1c

326. Don't set up an image of a stone. 26:1d

327. Don't bow down to other gods. 26:1e

328. Put a dollar value on human life according to the following table. 27:3-7

329. Determine the value of animals according to the following rules. 27:9-13, 26-27

330. When making your sacrifices, don't change or exchange holy animals for defective ones. 27:9-10

331. Value holy houses according to the following rules. 27:14-15

332. Value consecrated fields according to the following rules. 27:16-25

333. Don't sanctify the firstlings of your beasts, since they are the Lord's. 27:26

334. If a field is sold or not redeemed during the Jubilee year, it becomes the priest's possession. 27:21

335. Humans who are devoted to God cannot be sold or redeemed. 27:28a

336. Animals that are devoted to God cannot be sold or redeemed. 27:28b

337. An animal that is devoted to God must be killed. 27:28-29

338. Humans who are devoted to God must be killed. 27:29

339. Give God 10% of everything you have. 27:30

340. You can buy your 10% tithe back by paying 20%. 27:31

341. Give God 10% of your cattle, without regard to quality. 27:32-33a

342. The cattle tithe cannot be redeemed. 27:33b