Do All My Commandments – Notes

• Ge 1:28 is a command to Adam and Eve, but evidently not an explicit command to every individual man. Neither Paul nor Christ had children or pursued subduing the earthly environment. This can be seen as a general principle that is good to encourage in those who do not have conflicting callings or limitations. 
• Ge 1:29 explains God’s general design for food during the ante-diluvian period, but mammalian milk implies this not necessarily a command to be vegan. As the climate changed after the Flood, additional guidelines were provided over time as needed. Note that a dietary restriction is not explicitly stated here, though it might be implied.
• Ge 2:17 cannot be obeyed today, as far as we know, since this tree and the Tree of Life are evidently no longer accessible to us on Earth. Perhaps it was destroyed during the Flood or transported to Heaven.
• Ge 2:24 is not a command to marry, but a command to married men: cleaving is foundational to marriage and implies several other commands for husbands and wives.
• Ge 9:3 is not a command to be an omnivore, but expanded instruction on what is permissible as food in the post-diluvian world, where significant changes in climate and soil chemistry are evidently related to shortening lifespans and the need for additional nutritional sources. Again, while a dietary restriction is not explicitly stated here, the proportion of clean animals to unclean ones provides clear guidance.
• Ge 9:4 is the first formal dietary restriction. While it is extremely impractical to remove all blood cells from a serving of meat, it is evident that care should be taken to minimize the blood content through appropriate slaughtering techniques (e.g. not strangling – Ac 15:20). Consuming blood can be risky and is generally considered unhealthy due to several factors:
  • Pathogens: Blood can carry diseases like hepatitis, HIV, or bacterial infections if not properly sourced or treated. Animal blood may also harbor zoonotic diseases.
  • Iron Overload: Blood is high in iron, and excessive consumption can lead to hemochromatosis, damaging organs like the liver and heart.
    Digestive Issues: Raw blood is hard to digest and may cause nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea.
  • Toxins: Blood can contain toxins or contaminants from the animal’s environment or diet.
• Ge 9:6 is not a command to individuals but a provision for governments to impose civil laws for our protection; the death penalty is always carried out legally, either by community or with the sanction of community. This does not provide for vigilante justice. Further, as sin becomes rampant and disrespect for God’s law becomes normative in a culture, mercy may indeed be more appropriate even when Torah commands the death penalty, especially for those who are not leading the way, who are swept along in the flood of iniquity, such as Lot. Torah’s context is a Torah-observant culture, not pagan societies, and this must be considered to rightly apply the law.
• Ge 17:11 provides a blessing for males in covenant with God. Circumcised males are generally healthier due to:
  • Reduced Risk of Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs): Circumcised males, particularly infants, have a lower risk of UTIs. Studies show a 10-fold reduction in UTI incidence in circumcised infants compared to uncircumcised ones (AAP, 2012). UTIs are more common in uncircumcised males due to bacteria accumulating under the foreskin.
  • Lower Risk of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs):
    • HIV: Randomized controlled trials in Africa (e.g., WHO, 2007) found that circumcision reduces the risk of HIV acquisition in heterosexual men by 50-60%. This is due to the foreskin’s susceptibility to microtears and its high density of HIV target cells.
    • Other STIs: Circumcision is associated with reduced risk of herpes simplex virus (HSV-2), human papillomavirus (HPV), and syphilis, though the evidence is less robust than for HIV.
  • Decreased Risk of Penile Cancer: Penile cancer is rare, but the risk is lower in circumcised men. Studies indicate that uncircumcised men have a 3-22 times higher risk, often linked to poor hygiene and chronic infections under the foreskin (e.g., related to HPV).
  • Reduced Risk of Cervical Cancer in Partners: Circumcision lowers the prevalence of high-risk HPV strains in men, which are linked to cervical cancer in female partners. Observational studies suggest a protective effect for women whose partners are circumcised.
  • Improved Hygiene: Circumcision simplifies genital hygiene by eliminating the need to clean under the foreskin, reducing the risk of smegma buildup, inflammation (e.g., balanitis), and infections.
  • Lower Risk of Phimosis and Paraphimosis: Circumcision prevents conditions like phimosis (inability to retract the foreskin) and paraphimosis (foreskin trapped behind the glans), which can cause pain, infections, or require surgical intervention.
• Ge 17:12 is scientifically informed since blood clotting ability increases significantly during the first week of life and is generally safe by the eighth day.
• Ge 17:14 Symbolically violating God’s covenant is a serious offense. See notes on Ge 9:6 related to the death penalty.
• Ge 32:32 describes a Jewish tradition; this is not a dietary command.
• Ex 12:3-14 explains numerous instructions related to observing Passover. See notes for De 16:1-2.
• Positioning Ex 12:26-27 as cruel or sadistic by focusing on how God killed the Egyptian children overlooks the fact that the Angel of Death was indiscriminate, killing the eldest child in any home that did not follow God’s instructions. Giving these instructions publicly, with significant advance warning, might well have been an offer to Jew and Gentile alike, to any Egyptian who was paying attention and feared God. Rather, it should be positioned as God’s faithfulness to judge His enemies and to
• Ex 12:48-49 indicates God wants all people to be blessed through His laws; they are not merely to position Israel as unique among the nations.
• Ex 13:2 – In commemoration of God’s deliverance of Israel from the Egyptians, Jews living in Israel under a functioning Levitical priesthood, Ex 13:11-13 are to:
  • buy back their firstborn son with a $10,000 ransom payment to the Levites. (A shekel is worth ~20 days labor, or $10K at $100/day)
  • eat clean firstborn males of their flock at the feast of Tabernacles. (De 15:19-20)
  • redeem unclean firstborn male livestock (e.g. donkeys, camels, horses, etc.) with a lamb or break its neck.
• Ex 16:29 should be understood in context, Jews wandering in the wilderness should stay put on sabbath and not to go out foraging for manna; this is not a general command to remain inside your house on Sabbath, which contradicts the sabbath being a convocation, a time for assembly with others. (Le 23:3)
• Ex 20:10 forbids working on Sabbath, and forbids requiring others to work, but does not require us to forbid others to work, or that we hinder or actively discourage them from working if they are so inclined. This is critical in non-Torah observant cultures, where most people are not observing Sabbath and where observing sabbath is inherently more difficult and problematic. Benefitting from others’ work on Sabbath in such contexts, when this is their free choice, in order to make our own more restful. So long as we are not actively encouraging others to violate shabbat, and we are not breaking it ourselves, we are evidently keeping Sabbath in both letter and spirit. (Mk 2:27)
• Ex 20:14 – A man having sex with an unmarried woman is fornication, not adultery: it is not biblical grounds for divorce.
• Ex 20:4 forbids making idols for worship, not all art. The verse targets graven images meant to represent God or other deities, as clarified by the context of idolatry in the Ten Commandments. Art for non-worship purposes, like decoration or expression, is not prohibited—see the detailed cherubim designs in the Tabernacle. (Ex 25:18-20) Claiming it bans all art misreads the intent and scope.
• Ex 20:24 provides a way to offer sacrifices to God until the temple is built in Jerusalem. (De 12:13-14) One started an altar by making a mound of earth.
• Ex 20:25 requires an altar be made from natural, uncut stones, without any human design or crafting, which pollutes and corrupts the altar. Perhaps this is symbolic of not adding to or deleting from God’s Law (De 4:2); respecting human tradition as divine instruction corrupts and spoils us. (Co 2:8)
• Ex 20:26 requires that the altar have no staircase, which tends to expose nakedness when priests wear ancient-style robes.
• Ex 21:2-6 relates to the treatment of Hebrew bond-servants, which would applicable today in Israel if Israel reinstituted the concept of indentured servanthood. It is prudent to note that these commands are given in the context of a Torah-observant culture, where love and respect for all people is key, but likely have little application where civil law manages misfortune, poor judgement and misbehavior much differently, and arguably very poorly by comparison. Interestingly, the master-servant relationship trumps marriage/family relationships if it precedes them.
• Ex 21:7 implies women should be treated differently than men and not be required to perform hard manual labor like men.
• Ex 21:8-9 further protects servant-wives from abuse due to their vulnerability and is applicable in cultures recognizing servant-marriages.
• Ex 21:10-11 relates to conditions where the mistreatment of servant-wives frees them from servanthood and marriage. This is instructive in the marriages of free women: if a husband abandons his wife materially or sexually he ends the marriage and the woman is free to leave the marriage and remarry if she likes.
• Ex 21:26-27 provides additional conditions, such as the husband maiming his wife, which free a servant-wife from both servanthood and marriage, so it would apply to a free wife as well, effectively granting her freedom from the marriage and the right to re-marry as if she has been divorced.
• Ex 21:20 is redundant with Ex 21:12, applied explicitly to servants; so, masters may use physical punishment as needed to ensure reasonable productivity, incentivizing people to work industriously who are not managing their affairs sufficiently to make it on their own, but this requires respecting the life of the servant as their own life. 
• Ex 21:21 does not require a master to be punished if the servant survives the beating for a day or so. This presumes the death was unintentional and the master loses his investment in the servant as a consequence.
• Ex 21:22 implies unborn children are to be protected as human life, not aborted for convenience; harming them, even accidentally, is worthy of very serious penalties.
• Ex 21:26-27 provides freedom for a servant due to being maimed by their master, implying divorce is reasonable for a woman who is maimed by her husband. Making divorce easier for a wife might seem compassionate but it is very harmful to the home and thus to society.
• Ex 21:30-31 indicates in crimes of negligence recompensing the victims may be better than destroying the criminal.
• Ex 21:32 implies a serious fine (600 day’s wages, or $60,000 at $100 per day) when any domesticated animal puts a human life in danger, motivating owners to manage working animals carefully, ensure they are only exposed to others on an as-needed basis, and weed out aggressive ones through breeding and selective slaughtering; it’s implied in the Law of Love.
• Ex 22:20 imposes the death penalty for sacrificing to, or presumably worshipping, any god other than Jehovah. This is clearly applicable in Israel, as engaging in idol worship endangeres national security due to Israel’s covenant with God. In officially Torah-observant cultures, this may also be appropriate if a society has committed to following Jehovah together. However, in pluralistic cultures the degree of sin involved in worshipping false gods, and therefore the imposition of the  may only be known by God Himself as it depends on the societal influences impacting the sinner. (Ac 17:29-31)
•  Ex 22:29-30 relates to tithing agricultural produce promptly, applicable in the land of Israel under a functional Levitical priesthood.
• Ex 22:31a is redundant with Le 11:45.
• Ex 23:10-11 – The agricultural sabbatical year is facilitated in Israel by the land bring forth a triple yield in the sixth year. (Le 25:20-22) When this type of supernaturally abundant yield is not observed, crop rotation which allows each portion of the land a sabbatical rest might be a good way to obey this in principle.
• Ex 23:13 forbids referring to the character or reputation of a false deity in a way which legitimizes its existence or power. That this is not a prohibition from identifying the deity via its appellation may be implied from the fact that God calls out many false deities by name in Scripture (Le 18:21) and commands Israel to read these names aloud publicly in the congregation. (De 31:10) In other words, God is not saying, “make no mention of other gods”, which requires identifying them by their appellation, but “make no mention of the name of other gods.” This is a redundancy if the intent is merely to never verbalize the appellation of a false deity, so it can be understood as a command to not legitimize a false god by believing any claims to divinity regarding it.
• Ex 23:17 is a call for the men of Israel to assemble in Jerusalem in the three feast seasons; it would be in keeping with the spirit of this invitation for all the men of a local congregation to go on a retreat together at these times in the year.
• Ex 23:18a instructs those offering sacrifices to God to include any leavened bread, which is relevant in the context of the rebuilt temple.
• Ex 23:18b instructs those offering sacrifices to God to consume all the fat of the sacrifice before the next morning.
• Ex 23:19a instructs those observing First Fruits in the land of Israel to bring the first of their spring harvest as an offering to the temple.
• Ex 23:19b forbids boiling a baby goat in its mother’s milk, yet God seem unconcerned for the general emotional welfare of goats (1Co 9:10-11), so we should understand God is concerned about protecting our hearts from disrespect, sadism and cruelty, even to animals. (Pr 12:10)
•  Ex 23:32-33 might be understood as a requirement that everyone in our country to worship only God, but this is evidently only relevant in cultures which have already agreed to require this, as Israel has under the overwhelming presence and power of Jehovah God; we cannot impose faith on others as individuals. It is certainly problematic when strict Hindus and Muslims, without such overwhelming evidence, require others worship false gods.
• Ex 31:15-17 does not say sabbath is only for Israel; it explains how God treats Israel as a nation uniquely by imposing the death penalty on any Israelite who violates Sabbath, a sign (or indication) of how God feels about the universal importance of the sabbath day.
• Ex 35:3, given in a context where Israel had little to do during the week other than get water, keep fires going to prepare food for themselves and their livestock, should not be construed as a forbidding operating a light switch, elevator, kitchen appliances, a car, etc. Kindling a fire from scratch in the wilderness was difficult and should have been done during the week in preparation for Sabbath, along with any other labor-intensive task which could conveniently be done in advance.
• Le 5:1 requires that when we hear someone make a vow or promise, we publicly acknowledge the fact to help the speaker be accountable before God. This discourages rash vows and imprecision in speech, and where people are seeking God in community, such as in ancient Israel or a spiritual brotherhood.
• Le 5:2-3 implies it is sinful to fail to manage uncleanness properly, even if this is unintentional. Becoming unclean violates no command of God and is often required in the context of obeying God; uncleanness leads to sin when we neglect God’s protocol, as when we are unaware of our uncleanness. This unintentional sin incurs significant expense: for a middle-class person, think $2500 in a first-world economy. (5-6) God is telling us to pay attention and be extremely diligent in following His protocol when we become unclean.
• Le 5:4 teaches us we are accountable for vows, even rash oaths made under stress, in the heat of the moment, perhaps without serious forethought, even if we are unaware of what we are doing at the time. As above, such unintentional sin incurs significant expense: for a middle-class person, think $5000 in a first-world economy. (5-6) Such requirements are diminished for the low income (7) or the poor. (11) This motivates us to do nothing rashly, to be careful with our words, and to avoid making oaths altogether.
• (Le 5:15-16) imposes a penalty if one makes an unintentional error in obeying God’s commands regarding tithes, first fruits of the harvest, sanctifying the firstborn of the flock, or other property God commands us to set aside as holy for the priests or the poor. To make amends one must make up the difference in whatever was missed, add 20% to it in currency, and then offer a ram as an atoning sacrifice, worth about $2500 in a first-world economy. This would be applicable in a Torah-based agricultural economy with a functioning Levitical priesthood. I am unsure how it applies otherwise.

— Below are notes from a sceptic I am sorting through —

A thief must return what was stolen plus 20% and then kill an unblemished ram as a trespass offering. (Lev 6:2-7)
Burnt offerings must burn all night on the altar. The fire must never go out. (Lev 6:9-13)
Priests must eat sin offerings in the holy place. Anyone or anything that touches the meat is holy. (Lev 6:25-30)
The law of the most holy trespass offering (Lev 7:1-10)
Rules for eating sacrificial animals (Lev 7:15-21)
The wave offering (Lev 7:29-34)
The heave offering (Lev 7:32-34)
Eat animals that have divided hoofs and chew the cud. (Lev 11:2-3)
Don’t eat camels, conies, hares, or swine. Don’t touch their dead bodies either. (Lev 11:4-8)
Eat animals that live in water and have fins and scales. (Lev 11:9)
Animals that live in the water but don’t have fins or scales are abominations. Don’t eat them or touch their dead bodies. (Lev 11:10-12)
The following birds are abominations: eagles, vultures, ospreys, kites, ravens, owls, nighthawks, hawks, cuckoos, cormorants, swans, pelicans, storks, herons, lapwings, and bats. Don’t eat them. (Lev 11:13-19)
All fowls that creep and walk upon all four are abominations. (Lev 11:20)
Le 11:21-22 –  Note: beetle in the old English was evidently a more general term which included insects with mandibles, crickets and similar leaping flying insects.
If you touch the dead body of an animal that has divided hoofs but doesn’t chew the cud, you will be unclean until the evening and must wash your clothes. (Lev 11:24-26)
Animals that walk on four paws are unclean. If you touch their dead bodies you must wash your clothes and you will be unclean until the evening. (Lev 11:27-28)
These animals are also unclean: weasels, mice, tortoises, ferrets, chameleons, lizards, snails, and moles. If you touch them after they die you will be unclean until the evening. Whatever these dead animals touch will be unclean. (Lev 11:29-38)
Every creeping thing is an abomination and must not be eaten. (Lev 11:41)
Don’t eat any animal that crawls on its belly, goes on all four, or has lots of feet. They are all abominations. (Lev 11:42)
Don’t make yourself abominable, defiled, or unlcean with creeping things. (Lev 11:43-44)
A woman is unclean for seven days after delivering a male child. After childbirth she must be purified for 33 days, during which time she must not come into the sanctuary or touch any holy thing. (Lev 12:2-4)
A woman is unclean for two weeks after delivering a female child. After childbirth she must be purified for 66 days, during which time she must not come into the sanctuary or touch any holy thing. (Lev 12:5)
After a woman is finished her postpartum purifying, she must kill a lamb for a burnt offering and a dove or pigeon for a sin offering. (Lev 12:6-8)
The law of leprosy (Lev 13:2-28)
Laws about yellow hair and itchy spots (Lev 13:29-37)
The law of freckles (Lev 13:38)
Laws about baldness (Lev 13:40-44)
What to do with people with leprosy (Lev 13:45-46)
This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment. (Lev 13:47-59)
Perform this ceremony after you are healed of leprosy (Lev 14:1-32)
What to do when your house has leprosy (Lev 14:33-53)
The law about infected penises (Lev 15:1-7)
What to do if a man with an infected penis spits on you (Lev 15:8-11)
What to do if a man with an infected penis touches a pot (Lev 15:12)
The infected penis healing ritual (Lev 15:13-15)
What to do when a man ejaculates (Lev 15:16-18)
What to do with menstruating women (Lev 15:19-23)
Don’t have sex with menstruating women. (Lev 15:24)
Abnormal vaginal bleeding (Lev 15:25-27)
The post menstrual ritual atonement sacrifice (Lev 15:28-30)
Be careful when entering the holy place. If you come at the wrong time, God will kill you. (Lev 16:1-2)
Perform each year’s Yom Kippur sacrifices. (Lev 16:3-34)
Kill your animal sacrifices at the door of the tabernacle. (Lev 17:1-9)
Don’t sacrifice animals to devils after having sex with the devils. (Lev 17:7)
When you kill an animal while hunting, pour its blood on the ground and cover it with dirt. (Lev 17:13)
Don’t have sex with near relatives. (Lev 18:6)
Don’t have sex with your father. (Lev 18:7a)
Don’t have sex with your mother. (Lev 18:7b)
Don’t have sex with your father’s wife. (Lev 18:8)
Don’t have sex with your sister, the daughter of your father. (Lev 18:9a)
Don’t have sex with your sister, the daughter of your mother. (Lev 18:9b)
Don’t have sex with your son’s daughter. (Lev 18:10a)
Don’t have sex with daughter’s daughter. (Lev 18:10b)
Don’t have sex with your father’s wife’s daughter. (Lev 18:11)
Don’t have sex with your father’s sister. (Lev 18:12)
Don’t have sex with your mother’s sister. (Lev 18:13)
Don’t have sex with your father’s brother. (Lev 18:14a)
Don’t have sex with your father’s brother’s wife. (Lev 18:14b)
Don’t have sex with your son’s wife. (Lev 18:15)
Don’t have sex with your brother’s wife. (Lev 18:16)
Don’t have sex with a woman and her daughter. (Lev 18:17a)
Don’t have sex with a woman and her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter. (Lev 18:17b)
Don’t marry your wife’s sister while your wife is still alive. (Lev 18:18)
Don’t burn your children for a god named Molech. (Lev 18:21)
If you are a man, don’t have sex with another man. It is abomination. (Lev 18:22)
Don’t have sex with animals. It is confusion. (Lev 18:23)
Fear your mother and father. (Lev 19:3)
It is an abomination to eat a peace offering on the third day after the animal is sacrificed. If you do so, you will be exiled. (Lev 19:5-8)
Leave the corners of your field and some of your grapes in your vineyard unharvested for poor people and strangers to eat. (Lev 19:9-10)
Don’t swear falsely in God’s name. (Lev 19:12a)
Don’t profane God’s name. (Lev 19:12b)
Pay your workers at the end of each working day. (Lev 19:13)
Don’t curse deaf people. (Lev 19:14a)
Don’t cause a blind person to stumble. (Lev 19:14b)
Fear God. (Lev 19:14c)
Judge others fairly, rich and poor alike. (Lev 19:15)
Don’t gossip. (Lev 19:16a)
Don’t endanger the life of your neighbor. (Lev 19:16b)
Don’t hate your brother. (Lev 19:17a)
Rebuke your neighbor, so that you won’t share the blame for his or her sin. (Lev 19:17b)
Don’t seek revenge or bear a grudge against the children of your people. (Lev 19:18a)
Love your neighbor as yourself. (Lev 19:18b)
Obey all of the commandments. (Lev 19:19a)
Don’t crossbreed your animals. (Lev 19:19b)
Don’t plant crops with mixed seed. (Lev 19:19c)
Don’t weave a garment from different fibers. (Lev 19:19d)
If a man has sex with another man’s concubine, scourge the concubine and kill a goat for the man’s trespass offering. (Lev 19:20-22)
Don’t eat fruit from a tree for the first three years of its life. Consider the fruit uncircumcised. (Lev 19:23)
The fruit that a tree produces during its fourth year is holy and must be offered to God. (Lev 19:24)
Eat fruit that a tree produces during its fifth year. (Lev 19:25)
Don’t cast spells or engage in fortune-telling. (Lev 19:26)
Don’t round the corners of your head. (Lev 19:27a)
Don’t ruin the corners of your beard. (Lev 19:27b)
Don’t cut your skin for dead people. (Lev 19:28a)
Don’t have any tattoos on your body. (Lev 19:28b)
Don’t force your daughter to become a prostitute. (Lev 19:29)
Revere God’s sanctuary. (Lev 19:30)
Don’t consult wizards or people with familiar spirits. (Lev 19:31)
Stand up in the presence of old people. (Lev 19:32a)
Honor the face of an old man. (Lev 19:32b)
Don’t vex strangers. (Lev 19:33)
Love the stranger as yourself. (Lev 19:34)
Treat others fairly; don’t cheat. (Lev 19:35-36)
A priest shall not defile himself by touching a dead body, except for dead close relatives (mother, father, son, daughter, brother, and sister, if she died a virgin). (Lev 21:1-3)
Priests shall not shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings on their flesh. (Lev 21:5)
A priest shall not marry a whore. (Lev 21:7)
A priest shall not marry a divorced woman. (Lev 21:7)
If a priest’s daughter becomes a prostitute, burn her to death. (Lev 21:9)
High priests must not uncover their heads or tear their clothes. (Lev 21:10)
A high priest must not get near any dead bodies, even those of his father or mother. (Lev 21:11)
The high priest shall not go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary. (Lev 21:12)
A high priest must marry a virgin “from his own people.” (Lev 21:13-14)
A high priest must not marry a widow, a divorced or profane woman, or a harlot. (Lev 21:14)
A high priest must not profane his seed among the people. (Lev 21:15)
A priest must not have any blemish. (Lev 21:17-23)
Priests must stay away from holy things when they are unclean. (Lev 22:1-7)
If a priest approaches the holy things while his uncleanness is upon him will be cut off from God’s presence. (Lev 22:3)
No stranger, visitor, or hired servant shall eat of the holy thing. (Lev 22:10)
If a priest buys a slave, the slave and his family may eat the priest’s meat. (Lev 22:11)
If a priest’s daughter marries a stranger, she may not eat holy things. (Lev 22:12)
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. (Lev 22:13)
If you eat the holy thing by mistake, you must pay the priest for it, plus a 20% fine. (Lev 22:14)
Don’t profane the holy things or trespass while eating them. (Lev 22:15-16)
Don’t offer God any blemished animals. All animals that you kill for God must be perfect. (With the few exceptions noted below) (Lev 22:18-24)
If you are making a freewill offering, you may kill a bullock or lamb that has extra or missing body parts. But not when you’re making a vow. (Lev 22:23)
Don’t kill any animals for God that you get from strangers. Their animals are always blemished and corrupt, and God won’t accept any of them. (Lev 22:25)
Wait until a bullock, sheep, or goat is eight days old before killing and burning its dead body for God. (Lev 22:27)
Don’t kill a newborn animal and its mother on the same day. (Lev 22:28)
Make a burnt offering every day during the seven-day feast of unleavened bread. (Lev 23:8)
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. (Lev 23:10-13)
Don’t eat any crops that you have planted until you offer God the harvest sacrifice. (Lev 23:14)
Fifty days after the harvest sacrifice, offer God another meat offering, two loaves of leavened bread, seven unblemished year-old lambs, one young bullock, two rams, one young goat, and two more year-old lambs. These will be for burnt, meat, peace, wave, drink, and sin offerings. They will smell good to God and be holy for the priest. Don’t do any work on this day. (Lev 23:15-21)
Don’t do any work on the first day of the seventh month. Offer God a burnt offering instead. It is a sabbath, a trumpet-blowing memorial, a holy convocation. (Lev 23:24-25)
On the tenth day of the seventh month there shall be a day of atonement, a holy convocation. Don’t do any work on this day. Afflict your soul and offer God a burnt offering. If you don’t afflict your soul on this day, you will be exiled. God will kill you if you do any work on this day (Lev 23:27-32)
The fifteenth day of the seventh month is the seven-day feast of tabernacles. Don’t do any work on the first day or the eighth day. For seven days rejoice with tree and palm branches while offering God burnt offerings. Then on the eighth day have a holy convocation and offer God another burnt offering. (Lev 23:34-41)
Dwell in booths for seven days so everyone will know you’re a child of Israel. (Lev 23:42-43)
Bake twelve cakes using two kilograms of flour. Put them in two rows on a table with frankincense on them. Each Sabbath set them before the Lord, where Aaron and his sons (and their descendants) will eat them. (Lev 24:5-9)
Stone blasphemers to death. (Lev 24:16)
If you kill someone else’s animal, you must replace it. (Lev 24:17, 21)
If you damage another person, you will be damaged in the same way. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, blemish for blemish. (Lev 24:19-20)
The same laws shall apply to foreigners as to those who live in the country. (Lev 24:22)
Every 49 years, blow a trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. (Lev 25:8-9)
Declare a jubilee year every 50 years. (Lev 25:10-13)
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. (Lev 25:14-17)
Don’t oppress one another. (Lev 25:14, 17)
Don’t sell real estate. The land belongs to God, not you. (Lev 25:23)
If you buy land, you must allow the seller the right to buy it back. (Lev 25:24)
If one of your close relatives is forced to sell land, then you must buy it, with the usual Jubilee year pricing. (Lev 25:25-28)
If you sell a house in a walled city, you have the right to buy it back within a year after the sale. (Lev 25:29-30)
If you sell a house in an village without a wall, you may buy it back whenever you like. (Lev 25:31)
Levites own the suburbs and always have the right to buy back any property they sell. (Lev 25:32-34)
Help the poor. (Lev 25:35)
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 them free on the next jubilee year. (Lev 25:39-43)
When you buy slaves, buy a heathen from a nearby country. After you buy them, they are your property and your children will inherit them after you die. They will be your family’s slaves forever. (Lev 25:44-46)
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. (Lev 25:47-54)
Put a dollar value on human life according to the following table. (Lev 27:3-7)
Determine the value of consecrated animals according to the following rules. (Lev 27:9-13)
Value consecrated houses according to the following rules. (Lev 27:14-15)
Value consecrated fields according to the following rules. (Lev 27:16-25)
Whatever is dedicated to God, human or animal, must be killed. (Lev 27:28-29)
Give God 10% of everything you have. You can buy your 10% back by paying 20%. (Lev 27:30-33)

Only the descendants of Aaron shall be priests. (Num 3:10, 38)
Kill anyone who tries to become a priest who is not a descendant of Aaron. (Num 3:10, 38)
Firstborn sons (both man and beast) are no longer God’s. He replaced them with Levites. (Num 3:12-13, 41)
Don’t touch or look at any holy things. (Or God will kill you.) (Num 4:15, 20)
Don’t allow anyone who has touched a dead body, or who has a skin disease, or an oozing discharge to live anywhere near you. (Num 5:2-3)
All holy donations belong to the priest. (Num 5:9-10)
The Law of Jealousies: What a man must do when the spirit of jealousy comes upon him. (Num 5:11-30)
The Law of the Nazarite (Num 6:1-21)
How to become a Levite (Num 8:13-19)
The working age for Levites is 25 to 50. (Num 8:23-26)
Celebrate Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month (Num 9:1-3)
Rules for those who have recently touched a dead body or are traveling during the Passover (Num 9:9-11)
If you are clean and not traveling and refuse to celebrate Passover, you will be “cut off” from your people. (Num 9:13)
Strangers must observe the Passover. (Num 9:14)
Make two silver trumpets to call people to meetings. (Num 10:1-2)
Only the descendants of Aaron can blow the trumpets. (Num 10:8)
When you go to war, blow the trumpets to remind God to save you from your enemies. (Num 10:9)
Blow the trumpets on solemn days, at the beginning of every month, and when you make burnt and peace offerings to remind you who God is. (Num 10:10)
Everyone must sacrifice animals to God. (Num 15:13-16)
If you sin on purpose, you’ll be cut off. (Num 15:30-31)
Put fringes on your garments to remind you not to go a whoring. (Num 15:37-40)

• (Nu 15:40) tells God’s people to obey all of His commands, but from context we understand we can only obey laws which are relevant to our station in life: women cannot obey laws given to men and vice versa; certain laws are given to priests, which the rest of us cannot keep; many laws only make sense when we are living in the land of Israel in the context of a functional temple and Levitical priesthood. We cannot break a law which we cannot keep, so such laws do not apply to us. However, if we are able to keep a law, then we should do so, acknowledging that the law is good so neglecting it is a sin. (Ja 4:17)

Every male descendant of Aaron may eat the most holy meat offerings, sin offerings, and trespass offerings in the holy place. (Num 18:9-10)
Every clean descendant of Aaron, both male and female, may eat heave offerings and wave offerings. (Num 18:11)
The clean descendants of Aaron get all the best oil, wine, wheat, and first fruits. (Num 18:12-13)
Every firstborn human and animal belongs to Aaron’s male descendants. (Num 18:14-15)
Firstling cows, sheep, and goats can’t be redeemed. Sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat for a sweet savor unto the Lord. (Num 18:17)
The descendants of Aaron get the wave breasts and heave shoulders. It is a statute forever and a covenant of salt. (Num 18:18-19)
The descendants of Aaron can’t own land. (Num 18:20-24)
The descendants of Levi (the priests) get one tenth of everything everyone else possesses. (Num 18:21-31)
If you’re not a Levite, stay away from the tabernacle or you will bear sin and die. (Num 18:22)
If you pollute the holy things, you will die. (Num 18:32)
Kill and burn a red cow; make holy water from its ashes to wash away sin. (Num 19:1-10)

1. Nu 19:20 tells us how important it is for someone contaminated by a human corpse to purify themselves with the water of separation, but this is not feasible apart from the temple and the ashes of the red heifer outlined in the first half of this chapter. This suggests we are all likely defiled in some way and need cleansing from defilement before approaching the temple after it is rebuilt.

How to get clean after touching a dead body, bone, or grave (Num 19:11-19)
If a man dies and has no son, then his daughter receives the inheritance. (Num 27:8-11)
On each sabbath, in addition to your regular daily sacrifices, kill two first-year unblemished lambs, with 0.2 deal of flour mixed with oil, and a drink offering. (Num 28:9-10)
On the first day of every month, kill and burn two young bulls, one ram, and seven first-year unspotted lambs, using the following procedure. (Num 28:11-15)
On the first day of Passover, don’t do any work. Kill and burn some animals instead, according the the following instructions. (Num 28:19-25)
Men must keep their promises. (Num 30:2)
A woman who lives in her father’s house doesn’t have to keep her promise, unless her father agrees with it. (Num 30:3-5)
A married woman desn’t have to keep her promise, unless her husband agrees with it. (Num 30:6-15)
Widows and divorced women must keep their promises. (Num 30:9)
Make six cities of refuge (three on each side of the Jordan River), where accidental murderers can flee. (Num 35:11-15)
Murderers must be killed by “the revenger of blood” (the victim’s nearest male relative). (Num 35:16-21)
If someone kills another person accidentally, then the congregation sends him to a city of refuge, where he shall live until the high priest dies. (Num 35:22-28)
It takes two witnesses to kill a murderer. (Num 35:30)
A woman who receives an inheritance must not marry outside of her father’s tribe (Num 36:8)

1. De 4:2 We are not to edit, subtract from or add to any commandment of God. We may certainly infer commands from others by logical deduction and by looking at the spirit and intent of the law, but we are not to formally add new laws or dismiss any existing law.

Love God with all your heart, soul, and might. (Dt 6:5)
Know all of God’s laws by heart. (Dt 6:6)
Teach God’s laws to your children. (Dt 6:7a)
Talk about God’s laws when you’re sitting in your house, when you’re walking, when you lie down, and when you get up. (Dt 6:7b)
Write God’s laws on your hand and forehead. (Dt 6:8)
Write God’s laws on your door posts and gates. (Dt 6:9)

• De 6:9 requires writing God’s law at the entrances to cities and neighborhoods and throughout the culture, so we should promote this by encouraging non-Torah observant cultures to write the Ten Commandments and other Torah laws in schools,on government buildings, etc.

Swear by God’s name. (Dt 6:13)
Don’t tempt God. (Dt 6:16)
Do good. (Dt 6:18)
When God takes away land from other people and gives it to you, you must kill, without mercy, all of the current land’s inhabitants. (Dt 7:1-2)
Don’t take strange wives. (Dt 7:3-4)
Bless God when you finish eating. (Dt 8:10)
Don’t forget God. (Dt 8:11)
Circumcise the foreskin of your heart. (Dt 10:16) 77
Stop being stiffnecked. (Dt 10:16)

1. De 10:20 seems to provide a sort of definition for fearing God that comprises serving Him, seeking Him, cleaving to Him, and honoring Him in our speech. This can be summarized as keeping God’s commandments, which is the definition of loving Him. We cannot love God without obeying Him and respecting Him; we cannot respect God as He is without loving Him and obeying Him; we cannot obey God without loving Him and respecting Him. Loving God thus seems to imply that we obey Him and fear Him, and vice versa. These concepts are therefore all interdependent and inseparable in our relationship with God, hence are classified under loving God.

Announce God’s blessings on mount Gerizim, and his curses on mount Ebal. (Dt 11:29)
Do all of your burnt offerings, heave offerings, sacrifices, vows, etc. in a special place that God will someday choose for you. (Dt 12:11-14)
Don’t forget about the Levites. (Dt 12:19)
If a prophet gives you a sign or a wonder, don’t listen to him. Kill him instead. (Dt 13:1-5)
Walk after God. (Dt 13:4)
Obey God’s voice. (Dt 13:4)
If your family or friends try to get you to worship another god, stone them to death. (Dt 13:6-10)
If God gives you a city and some of the inhabitants believe in other gods, kill all the people in the city, along with all of their animals. Then burn the city for God. (Dt 13:12-15)
Don’t cleave to the cursed thing. (Dt 13:17)
Don’t make any baldness between your eyes for dead people. (Dt 14:1)
Don’t eat any abominable thing. (Dt 14:3)
Eat these animals: oxen, sheep, goats, harts, roebucks, fallow deer, pygargs, and chamois. (Dt 14:4-5)
Eat clean birds. (Dt 14:11, 20)
Don’t eat animals that die by themselves. Feed them to strangers or sell them to aliens. (Dt 14:21)
Cancel all debts every seven years. (Dt 15:1-3)
Lend money to other nations. (Dt 15:6)
Don’t borrow money from other nations. (Dt 15:6)
Don’t do any work with your firstborn bull. (Dt 15:19)
Don’t shear your firstborn sheep. (Dt 15:19)
Eat your firstborn bulls and sheep in the place where God chooses. (Dt 15:20)

• De 16:1-2 tells us to keep Passover, but doing this correctly requires a temple. Meanwhile, we do our best to commemorate the feast.

Don’t plant trees near God’s altar. (Dt 16:21)
Don’t set up an image that God hates. (Dt 16:22)
Stone to death anyone who worships other gods. (Dt 17:2-7)
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. (Dt 17:8-11)
Kill anyone who refuses to obey a priest or a judge. (Dt 17:12-13)
Accept as king whomever God chooses. (Dt 17:14-15)
The king shall not have too many horses. (Dt 17:16a)
The king shall not take the people to Egypt. (Dt 17:16b)
The king shall not have too many wives. (Dt 17:17a)
The king shall not have too much silver and gold. (Dt 17:17b)
The king shall write down, read, and follow the laws that the priests give to him. (Dt 17:18-19)
Priests shall have no inheritance. (Dt 18:1-2)
When you sacrifice an animal, give the priest the animal’s shoulder, cheeks, and maw. (Dt 18:3)
Give the priest the first fruits of your corn, wine, oil, and fleece. (Dt 18:4)
Don’t learn to do the abominations of other nations. (Dt 18:9)
Don’t make your children pass through the fire. (Dt 18:10a)
Don’t use divination. (Dt 18:10b)
Don’t observe times. (Dt 18:10c)
Don’t be an enchanter. (Dt 18:10d)
Don’t be a witch. (Dt 18:10e)
Don’t be a charmer. (Dt 18:10-11a)
Don’t consult with familiar spirits. (Dt 18:10-11b)
Don’t be a wizard. (Dt 18:10-11c)
Don’t be a necromancer. (Dt 18:10-11d)
Be perfect. (Dt 18:13)
Someday God will raise up a prophet and put words in his mouth. When he does, do whatever that prophet tells you to do. (Dt 18:15-19)
Kill false prophets. (Dt 18:20-22)
Don’t be afraid of false prophets. (Dt 18:22)
Don’t remove your neighbor’s landmark. (Dt 19:14)
At least two witnesses are required to convict someone of a crime. (Dt 19:15)
Punish false witnesses by doing to them what they falsely accused the defendant of doing. (Dt 19:16-19)
Don’t pity. (Dt 19:20)
Don’t be afraid when you go into battle. (Dt 20:1)
Before going into battle, a priest shall speak to the soldiers. (Dt 20:2-4)
Men who have recently built houses, shall not fight in wars. (Dt 20:5)
Men who have recently planted a vineyard, shall not fight in wars. (Dt 20:6)
Men who have recently married, shall not fight in wars. (Dt 20:7)
Men who are fearful or fainthearted, shall not fight in wars. (Dt 20:8)
If a city decides not to fight against you, enslave its inhabitants. (Dt 20:10-11)
If a city resists your attack, kill every male and enslave the women and younger children. (This rule applies to the far-off surrounding cities that God has not explicitly given you.) (Dt 20:12-15)
If God gives you a city, you must kill everything in it that breathes. (Dt 20:16-18)
When you besiege a city, don’t kill the fruit trees. (Dt 20:19)
When you besiege a city, kill all the trees that do not bear edible fruit. (Dt 20:20)
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.” (Dt 21:1-9)
When God delivers your enemies into your hands, and you see a beautiful woman among the captives, take her home and have sex with her (after letting her mourn her parents for a month). If she doesn’t fully satisfy you, let her go (without selling her). (Dt 21:10-14)
If you have two wives, on beloved and another hated, give the firstborn son of your hated wife twice the inheritance of your beloved wife’s firstborn son. (Dt 21:15-17)
If you have a stubborn and rebellious son, stone him to death (with the help of all the men of your city). (Dt 21:18-21)
Whoever commits a sin that is worthy of death shall be killed and hung on a tree. But don’t let the body hang overnight (Dt 21:22-23)
If you find a lost item, return it to its owner. (Dt 22:1-3)
If you see a donkey or an ox fall down, lift it up. (Dt 22:4)
Women shouldn’t wear men’s clothing (and vice versa). It’s an abomination to God. (Dt 22:5)
If you see a bird’s nest, don’t take the mother bird. Take the young birds instead. (Dt 22:6-7)
When building a roof, make sure it is safe. (Dt 22:8)
Don’t plant a vineyard with different kinds of seeds. (Dt 22:9)
Don’t plow with an ox and an ass together. (Dt 22:10)
Don’t wear a garment made from different kinds of fibers. (Dt 22:11)
If a man falsely accuses his wife of not being a virgin on her wedding night, then the husband cannot divorce her and must pay her father 100 shekels of silver. (Dt 22:13-19)
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. (Dt 22:13-21)
City Rape: If a betrothed virgin is raped in the city, stone her and her rapist to death. (Dt 22:23-24)
Country Rape: If a man rapes a betrothed damsel outside of the city, then kill the man but do nothing to the damsel. (Dt 22:25-27)

1. De 22:28-29 implies a substantial fine for rape of an unbetrothed virgin: the fine is evidently approximated by 1000 day’s wages, or $100,000 at $100/day. This would require most men to be sold as a bond-servant to pay the fine. Further, depending on the circumstances, the victim’s family and local community might impose a very strict protocol for ensuring that the husband does not abuse or neglect his wife, and subject him to severe public floggings for violations as often as necessary. (De 22:2-3) In other words, the rapist may well be enslaved for a very long time and forcefully incentivized to behave himself. Note: A man having sex with an unmarried (unbetrothed) woman is fornication, not adultery.

Men with damaged genitals shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord (Dt 23:1)
A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord (Dt 23:2)
To enter into the congregation of the Lord you must prove that there were no bastards among your ancestors for at least ten generations (Dt 23:2)
An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD (Dt 23:3)
To enter into the congregation of the Lord you must prove that you have no Ammonite or Moabite ancestors for at least ten generations (and perhaps forever) (Dt 23:3)
Don’t seek the peace or prosperity of filthy nonbelievers. (Dt 23:6)
Don’t abhor Edomites (Dt 23:7)
Don’t abhor Egyptians (Dt 23:7)
The grandchildren of Egyptians (and maybe Edomites) may enter the congregation of the Lord (Dt 23:8)
When you go to war, stay away from wicked things (Dt 23:9)
If you have a wet dream, you must go the the special wet dream place and wash with water the next evening before returning to camp (Dt 23:10-12)
When you defecate, cover up your excrement (so that God doesn’t step in it). (Dt 23:13-14)
Don’t return runaway slaves to their masters. Let them live with you in peace and freedom. (Dt 23:15-16)
Make sure there aren’t any whores or sodomites in your community. (Dt 23:17)
Don’t bring the hire of a whore or the price of a dog into the house of the Lord. (Dt 23:18)
Don’t charge interest when loaning money. (Unless they are strangers. Then it’s okay.) (Dt 23:19-20)
If you make a vow to the Lord, you must keep it. (Dt 23:21-23)
You may eat grapes from your neighbor’s vineyard, but don’t put any in your basket. (Dt 23:24)
You may pluck kernels of grain from your neighbor’s farm, but don’t cut any stalks down with a sickle. (Dt 23:25)
If you take a wife, and you find some uncleanness in her, then divorce her and kick her out of your house. (Dt 24:1)
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. That would be an abomination to God. (Dt 24:2-4)
When a man takes a new wife, he shall not fight in war or do any business; he shall be free for one year to cheer up his new wife. (Dt 24:5)
Don’t take a man’s millstone as collateral in a loan. That would be like taking his life. (Dt 24:6)
Kill anyone who steals and then sells another person from your community. (Dt 24:7)
If you get leprosy, do whatever the priests tell you to do. (Dt 24:8)
Remember what God did to Miriam. (He gave her leprosy for criticizing Moses.) (Dt 24:9)
If you lend someone something, don’t go into his house to collect the collateral. Ask him to bring it out to you. (Dt 24:10-11)
If you loaned something to a poor person who used clothes as collateral, bring the clothes back in the evening so the poor person can sleep in them. (Dt 24:12-13)
Don’t oppress the working poor, whether they are members of your community or strangers. (Dt 24:14)
Don’t kill fathers for things their children did, and vice versa. (Dt 24:16)
Don’t misjudge strangers. (Dt 24:17a)
Don’t misjudge fatherless children. (Dt 24:17b)
Don’t take a widow’s clothing for collateral in a loan. (Dt 24:17c)
If you forget to harvest some of your field, leave it for strangers, fatherless children, and widows. (Dt 24:19)
Only beat your olive trees once; leave what’s left for strangers, fatherless children, and widows. (Dt 24:20)
After you pick your grapes, don’t pick the ones you missed. Leave them for strangers, fatherless children, and widows. (Dt 24:21)
Remember that you were a slave in Egypt. (Dt 24:22)
Settle disputes with judges who will justify the righteous and condemn the wicked. (Dt 25:1)
When a judge decides that someone is wicked, make him lie down and beat him with up to forty lashes. (Dt 25:2-3)
Don’t muzzle an ox while it is treading the grain. (Dt 25:4)
If a man dies before his wife has a child, the widow must marry her dead husband’s brother. (Dt 25:5)
When a man marries his dead brother’s wife, the firstborn son receives the dead brother’s name. (Dt 25:6)
If a man refuses to “go in unto” his dead brother’s wife, she shall loosen his shoe and spit in his face. (Dt 25:7-9)
A man who refuses to have sex with his dead brother’s wife shall be called “him that has his shoe loosed.” (Dt 25:10)
If two men fight and the wife of one grabs the “secrets” of the other, “then thou shalt cut off her hand” and “thine eye shall not pity her.” (Dt 25:11-12)

• “De 25:11-12 may seem cruel until we consider the crime; this is not something one does by accident: it is extremely disrespectful and inappropriate. There are many other effective ways to intervene in a struggle. Why should the hand used to publicly violate a man like this remain unblemished in the eyes of the community? God’s message is clear: don’t do this or suffer the consequences.

Remember what Amalek did to you. (Dt 25:17-18)
Don’t forget to blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. (Dt 25:19)
When God gives you some land, put all of its first fruits in a basket and take the basket to the place that God chooses to place his name. (Dt 26:1-2)
Take your basket of first fruits to the priest and say to him, “I profess this day unto the Lord thy God, that I am come unto the country which the Lord sware unto our fathers for to give us.” (Dt 26:3)
The priest shall take your basket of first fruits and set it down before the altar. (Dt 26:4)
After the priest puts your basket on the altar, say the following words to God. (Dt 26:5-10)
Rejoice in the Lord (Dt 26:11)
When you finish giving your tithe in the third year, give it to the Levites, strangers, fatherless children, and widows. (Dt 26:12)
After after you finish giving your tithe, say the following words to God. (Dt 26:13-15)
Write all of the commandments on big stones. Plaster them with plaster and set them on Mount Ebal. (Dt 27:2-5)
Build and altar of stones on Mount Ebal. (Dt 27:5)
Don’t use any iron tools while building Mount Ebal’s stone altar. (Dt 27:5)
Offer burnt offerings on Mount Ebal’s stone altar. (Dt 27:6)
Offer peace offerings on Mount Ebal’s stone altar. (Dt 27:7)
Eat and rejoice on Mount Ebal’s stone altar. (Dt 27:7)
Don’t set light by your father or mother. (Dt 27:16)
Don’t pervert the judgement of widows. (Dt 27:19)
Don’t have sex with your mother in law. (Dt 27:23)
Don’t smite your neighbor secretly. (Dt 27:24)
Don’t kill an innocent person for money. (Dt 27:25)
Read the law to all the people in a place that God will choose. (Dt 31:12)
Teach your children the Song of Moses (Dt 31:18-21)
Put the book of the law in the side of the ark of the covenant. (Dt 31:26)

Meditate on the commandments night and day. (Joshua 1:8)
Take twelve stones from the Jordan River as a memorial forever. (Joshua 4:3-9)
Show your children the twelve stones to remind them about how they should fear God forever. (Joshua 4:20-24)
Destroy the accursed thing. (Joshua 7:12)
Burn to death anyone who takes the accursed thing, along with his family and other possessions. (Joshua 7:15)
Enquire of the Lord. (1 Chronicles 10:14)
Don’t touch the ark. (1 Chronicles 13:10)
Thank God. (1 Chronicles 16:8)
Call on the Lord’s name. (1 Chronicles 16:8)
Make known his deeds among the people. (1 Chronicles 16:8-9)
Sing to God (preferably psalms). (1 Chronicles 16:9)
Glory in God’s holy name. (1 Chronicles 16:10)
Seek the LORD and his strength. (1 Chronicles 16:11)
Seek the Lord’s face continually. (1 Chronicles 16:11)
Remember God’s marvelous works, wonders, and judgments of his mouth. (1 Chronicles 16:12)
Don’t touch the Lord’s anointed. (1 Chronicles 16:22)
Don’t harm God’s prophets. (1 Chronicles 16:22)
Show forth God’s salvation from day to day. (1 Chronicles 16:23)
Declare God’s glory among the heathen. (1 Chronicles 16:24)
Praise the Lord. (1 Chronicles 16:25)
Give the Lord glory and strength. (1 Chronicles 16:28-29)
Bring an offering and come before the Lord. (1 Chronicles 16:30)
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. (1 Chronicles 16:28)
Say: “The Lord reigns.” (1 Chronicles 16:31)
Say: “Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.” (1 Chronicles 16:35-36)
Possess your land and leave it for an inheritance for your children. (1 Chronicles 28:8)
Bless God. (1 Chronicles 29:20)
Kill whoever will not seek the Lord. (2 Chronicles 15:13-15)
When you are sick, ask God (not physicians) to cure your illness. (2 Chronicles 16:12)
Don’t help the ungodly. (2 Chronicles 19:2)
Don’t love those that hate the Lord. (2 Chronicles 19:2)
Take away the groves out of the land. (2 Chronicles 19:3)
Prepare your heart to seek the Lord. (2 Chronicles 19:3)
Only priests may enter the house of the Lord to burn incense. Anyone else who tries it shall be killed (or given leprosy by God). (2 Chronicles 23:6-7)
Don’t sacrifice or burn incense in high places, on hills, or under green trees. (2 Chronicles 28:4-5)
Sanctify the house of the Lord. (2 Chronicles 28:5)
Remove the filthiness from the holy place. (2 Chronicles 28:5)
Don’t trespass against the Lord. (2 Chronicles 29:6-8)
Don’t do evil in the eyes of the Lord. (2 Chronicles 29:6-8)
Don’t forsake the Lord. (2 Chronicles 29:6-8)
Don’t turn away your face (or back) from the habitation of the Lord. (2 Chronicles 29:6-8)
Don’t shut up the doors of the porch or put out the lamps. (2 Chronicles 29:7-8)
Minister unto the Lord. (2 Chronicles 29:11)
Yield yourself to the Lord. (2 Chronicles 30:8)
Enter the Lord’s sanctuary. (2 Chronicles 30:8)
Return to the Lord. (2 Chronicles 30:9)
Don’t build high places. (2 Chronicles 33:1-2)
Don’t build altars for Baalim. (2 Chronicles 33:1-3)
Don’t worship the host of heaven. (2 Chronicles 33:1-3)
Don’t serve the host of heaven. (2 Chronicles 33:1-3)
Don’t build altars for the host of heaven in the house of the Lord. (2 Chronicles 33:1-5)
Don’t set a carved image in the house of God. (2 Chronicles 33:1-7)
Burn the bones of priests upon their altars. (2 Chronicles 34:1-5)
Don’t burn incense to other gods. (2 Chronicles 34:24-25)
Don’t tax priests, Levites, singers, porters, Nethinim, or ministers of the house of God. (Ezra 7:24-27)
Set magistrates and judges to judge and teach the people according to God’s commandments. (Ezra 7:25-27)
Kill, banish, imprison, and/or confiscate the goods of anyone who refuses to obey the commandments of God or the law of the king. (Ezra 7:26-27)
If you wrongly take any strange wives, abandon them, along with your sons and daughters that were born of your strange ex-wives (Ezra 10:3)
Don’t buy any food on the Sabbath or holy day. (Nehemiah 10:31)
Give one third of a shekel each year for the service of the house of God. (Nehemiah 10:23)
Cast lots to determine who will bring the wood offering to the house of God. (Nehemiah 10:34)

Ask God (and he’ll give you heathens for slaves and the whole earth for your possession). (Psalm 2:8)
Break the heathen with a rod of iron and smash them into little pieces. (Psalm 2:9)
Be wise. (Psalm 2:10)
Be instructed. (Psalm 2:10)
Kiss the Son. (Psalm 2:12)
Know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself. (Psalm 4:3)
Stand in awe. (Psalm 4:4)
Don’t sin. (Psalm 4:4)
Commune with your own heart upon your bed. (Psalm 4:4)
Be still. (Psalm 4:4)
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. (Psalm 4:5)
Trust the Lord. (Psalm 4:5)
Declare God’s doings among the people. (Psalm 9:11)
Give the Lord glory and strength. (Psalm 29:1)
Be brave. (Psalm 31:24)
Be glad in the Lord. (Psalm 32:11)
Magnify the Lord. (Psalm 34:3)
Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. (Psalm 34:8)
Don’t say evil things. (Psalm 34:13)
Seek peace, and pursue it. (Psalm 34:14)
Don’t worry about evildoers. (Psalm 37:1)
Don’t envy the bad guys. (Psalm 37:1)
Rest in the Lord. (Psalm 37:7)
Wait for God. (Psalm 37:7)
Don’t be angry. (Psalm 37:8)
Clap your hands and shout to God. (Psalm 47:1)
Walk around Zion. (Psalm 48:12)
Listen to Psalm 49. (Psalm 49:1)
Gather God’s saints. (Psalm 50:5)
Listen to God. (Psalm 50:7)
Make vows to God. (Psalm 50:14)
When you’re in trouble, ask God for help. (Psalm 50:15)
Cast your burden upon the Lord. (Psalm 55:22)
Pour out your heart to God. (Psalm 62:8)
Don’t trust in oppression. (Psalm 62:10)
If you become wealthy, don’t value your riches too much. (Psalm 62:10)
Make a joyful noise to the Lord. (Psalm 66:1)
See the terrible things that God has done (and continues to do) to people. (Psalm 66:5)
Acknowledge God’s strength. (Psalm 68:34)
Don’t harden your heart. (Psalm 95:8)
Bless God’s name. (Psalm 96:2)
Make a loud noise. (Psalm 98:4)
Exalt the Lord. (Psalm 99:5)
Worship the Lord at his footstool. (Psalm 99:5)
Worship at God’s holy hill. (Psalm 99:9)
Know that the Lord is God. (Psalm 100:3)
Talk about all of God’s wondrous works. (Psalm 105:2)
Praise the name of the Lord (Psalm 113:1)
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. (Psalm 134:2)
Be merciful and truthful. (Proverbs 3:3)
Don’t trust your own understanding. (Proverbs 3:5)
Acknowledge God in everything you do. (Proverbs 3:6)
Don’t be wise in your own eyes. (Proverbs 3:7)
Let God chastise you. (Proverbs 3:11)
Don’t be afraid of sudden fear. (Proverbs 3:25)
Don’t be afraid of the desolation of the wicked. (Proverbs 3:25)
In so far as you are able, help those who deserve to be helped. (Proverbs 3:27)
Don’t tell your neighbor, I’ll help you tomorrow if you have the means to help them today. (Proverbs 3:28)
Don’t make evil plans against your neighbor. (Proverbs 3:29)
Don’t fight for no reason. (Proverbs 3:30)
Obey the author of the book of Proverbs. (Proverbs 4:2)
Learn, become wise, and understand. (Proverbs 4:5)
Keep an eye on your heart. (Proverbs 4:23)
Watch what you say. (Proverbs 4:24)
Look straight ahead. (Proverbs 4:25)
Watch your step. (Proverbs 4:26)
Make no right or left turns. (Proverbs 4:27)
If you step in something evil, remove your foot. (Proverbs 4:27)
Stay away from strange women. (Proverbs 5:3-8)
Drink from your own well. (Proverbs 5:15)
Let your fountains run into the streets. (Proverbs 5:16)
Don’t share your fountains with strangers. (Proverbs 5:17)
Let your fountain be blessed. (Proverbs 5:18)
Rejoice with your wife. (Proverbs 5:18)
Be satisfied with your wife’s breasts. (Proverbs 5:19)
If you promise to do something for a friend and then aren’t able to do it, apologize immediately. (Proverbs 6:1-5)
Learn from the ant, you lazy ass. (Proverbs 6:6-8)
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister.” (Proverbs 7:4)
Say to understanding, “You are my female relative.” (Proverbs 7:4)
Understand wisdom. (Proverbs 8:5)
Have an understanding heart. (Proverbs 8:5)
Forsake the foolish. (Proverbs 9:6)
Don’t reprove a scorner. (Proverbs 9:8)
Rebuke a wise man. (Proverbs 9:8)
Instruct a wise man. (Proverbs 9:9)
Teach a just man. (Proverbs 9:9)
Stay away from foolish people. (Proverbs 14:7)
Commit your works to the Lord. (Proverbs 16:3)
Beat your children and don’t stop just because they cry. (Proverbs 19:18)
Smite a scorner. (Proverbs 19:25)
Reprove people who understand. (Proverbs 19:25)
Take a garment from a stranger and a pledge for a strange woman. (Proverbs 20:16)
Teach your children well. (Proverbs 22:6)
Don’t rob poor people. (Proverbs 22:22)
Don’t be friends with angry people. (Proverbs 22:24)
Don’t agree to pay off other people’s loans. (Proverbs 22:26-27)
When you eat dinner with an important person, think about what to say and don’t overeat. (Proverbs 23:1-3)
Don’t try to get rich. (Proverbs 23:4)
Don’t eat bread with anyone who has an evil eye. (Proverbs 23:6)
Don’t talk to fools. (Proverbs 23:9)
Don’t walk on the fields of the fatherless. (Proverbs 23:10)
Stay away from wine drinkers. (Proverbs 2:20)
Stay away from wild-eyed meat eaters. (Proverbs 23:20)
Don’t hate your mother when she gets old. (Proverbs 23:22)
Don’t look at the wine while it is red. (Proverbs 23:31-33)
Eat honey. (Proverbs 24:13)
Don’t ambush righteous people. (Proverbs 24:15)
Don’t rejoice when your enemy stumbles. (Proverbs 24:17)
Fear the king. (Proverbs 24:21)
Don’t associate with people who are trying to change things. (Proverbs 24:21)
Kiss whoever has the right answer on the lips. (Proverbs 24:26)
Complete your outdoor work before building your house. (Proverbs 24:27)
Don’t brag. (Proverbs 25:6)
Don’t rush into a lawsuit. Try to settle out of court. (Proverbs 25:8-9)
Don’t eat too much honey. (Proverbs 25:16)
Stay out of your neighbor’s house. (Proverbs 25:17)
Give your enemy food and water. (Proverbs 25:21-22)
Whip horses, bridle donkeys, and beat fools with a rod. (Proverbs 26:3)
Don’t answer a fool according to his folly. (Proverbs 26:4)
Answer a fool according to his folly. (Proverbs 26:5)
Don’t believe what hateful people say. (Proverbs 26:24-26)
Don’t forsake your friends or your father’s friends. (Proverbs 27:10)
When disaster strikes, don’t ask your brother for help. Ask your neighbor instead. (Proverbs 27:10)
Take a garment as collateral when loaning money to a stranger or a strange women. (Proverbs 27:13)
Take care of your sheep and goats. (Proverbs 27:23)
Don’t accuse a slave to his maser. (Proverbs 30:10)
Don’t give your strength to women. (Proverbs 31:3)
Don’t try to overthrow kings. (Proverbs 31:3)
Give strong drinks to the dying, and wine to sad people. (Proverbs 31:6-7)
Defend the poor and those who cannot speak for themselves. (Proverbs 31:8-9)
Reward and praise virtuous women. (Proverbs 31:31)
When you go to the house of God, listen rather than give the evil sacrifice of fools. (Ecclesiastes 5:1)
Don’t be hasty to say things to God. The less you say to him the better. (Ecclesiastes 5:2)
Don’t say, “Why were things better in the good old days?” (Ecclesiastes 7:10)
Consider the work of God. (Ecclesiastes 7:13)
Don’t be overly righteous. (Ecclesiastes 7:16)
Don’t be overly wise. (Ecclesiastes 7:16)
Don’t be overly wicked. (Ecclesiastes 7:17)
Don’t be foolish. (Ecclesiastes 7:17)
Don’t pay attention to everything people say. (Ecclesiastes 7:21)
Keep the king’s commandment. (Ecclesiastes 8:2)
Don’t be hasty to leave the king’s sight. (Ecclesiastes 8:3)
Don’t stand in an evil thing. (Ecclesiastes 8:3)
Eat bread with joy and drink wine with a merry heart. (Ecclesiastes 9:7)
Always wear white clothes. (Ecclesiastes 9:8)
Always have some ointment on your head. (Ecclesiastes 9:8)
Live life to the fullest. It’s the only life you’ll ever have. (Ecclesiastes 9:10)
Don’t curse the rich. (Ecclesiastes 10:20)
Cast your bread upon the waters. (Ecclesiastes 11:1)
Give some to seven or eight. (Ecclesiastes 11:2)
Be happy while you are young. (Ecclesiastes 11:9-10)

Don’t bring God any more vain oblations. (Isaiah 1:13)
Wash yourself. (Isaiah 1:16)
Seek judgment. (Isaiah 1:17)
Relieve the oppressed. (Isaiah 1:17)
Judge the fatherless. (Isaiah 1:17)
Plead for the widow. (Isaiah 1:17)
Don’t value human life. (Isaiah 2:22)
Tell the righteous people that everything will be OK for them. (Isaiah 3:10)
Make God holy. (Isaiah 8:13)
Bind up Isaiah’s testimony and seal the law among his disciples. (Isaiah 8:16)
Say to those who are afraid, “Be strong.” (Isaiah 35:4)
Look at God and be saved. (Isaiah 45:22)
Remember things that happened a long time ago. (Isaiah 46:9)
Don’t pray for certain people. (Jeremaiah 7:16)
Eat your own sacrifices and burnt offerings. God never asked for them and doesn’t want them. (Jeremaiah 7:21-22)
Don’t trust anyone. Not even your family, friends, or neighbors. (Jeremaiah 9:4-6)
Don’t worry about the signs of heaven. (Jeremaiah 10:2)
Don’t be afraid of heathens. (Jeremaiah 10:5)
Don’t listen to prophets. (Jeremaiah 27:16)
Don’t cry. (Jeremaiah 31:16)
Free your Hebrew slaves. (Jeremaiah 34:9)
Repent. (Ezekiel 14:6)
Don’t be proud. (Ezekiel 14:49-50)
Don’t eat too much bread. (Ezekiel 14:49)
Keep yourself and your daughters busy. (Ezekiel 18:49)
Don’t commit abominations in front of God. (Ezekiel 14:49-50)
Don’t eat on mountains. (Ezekiel 18:5-6)
Don’t lift up your eyes to Israel’s idols. (Ezekiel 18:5-6)
Don’t defile your neighbor’s wife. (Ezekiel 18:5-7)
Don’t come near a menstruous woman. (Ezekiel 18:5-6)
Return the collateral after a debt is paid. (Ezekiel 18:5-7)
Don’t commit armed robbery. (Ezekiel 18:5-7)
Feed the hungry. (Ezekiel 18:5-7)
Clothe the naked. (Ezekiel 18:5-7)
Withdraw your hand from iniquity. (Ezekiel 18:5-8)
Deal truly. (Ezekiel 18:5-8)
Cast away the abominations of your eyes. (Ezekiel 20:7)
Don’t defile yourself with Egyptian idols. (Ezekiel 20:7)
Wake up, you drunkards; weep and howl, because your wine is cut off. (Joel 1:5)
Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth for the husband of her youth. (Joel 1:8)
Fast, call an assembly, blow a trumpet, and sound an alarm on God’s holy mountain. (Joel 1:14)
Prepare for war. (Joel 3:9-10)
Seek good and avoid evil. (Amos 5:14)
Love mercy. (Micah 6:8)
Walk humbly with God. (Micah 6:8)
Don’t talk to your wife. (Micah 7:5)
Get drunk and naked. (Habakkuk 2:16)
Howl. (Joel 1:5)
Consider your ways. (Haggai 1:7)
Go to the mountain and build God a house for him to take pleasure in. (Haggai 1:8)
Don’t be like your fathers. (Zechariah 1:4)
Be silent. (Zechariah 2:13)
Don’t wish or plot evil against your brother. (Zechariah 7:10)
Ask God for rain in the time of the latter rain. (Zechariah 10:1)
Feed the flock of the slaughter. (Zechariah 11:4)
Let the dead be dead, and let everyone else eat the flesh of another. (Zechariah 11:9)
Be kind to your wife. (Malachi 2:15-16)
Bring the tithes into the storehouse. (Malachi 3:10)

Hear the words of Jesus. (Mark 4:23)
Listen carefully. The more carefully you listen, the more you will hear. (Mark 4:24)
When you help the poor, don’t let anyone see you do it. (Matthew 6:1-4)

• Mt 5:32a is redundant with De 24:1.
• Mt 5:32b is redundant with De 24:4.
• Mt 5:42 should be understood along with the prior context where obligations are present; this does not mean we should be poor stewards or enable dishonesty, foolishness or laziness. (2Th 3:10)

Let the dead bury the dead. (Matthew 8:22)
Don’t be afraid of people who can kill you. (Matthew 10:28)
Don’t love your family more than Jesus. (Matthew 10:37)
Take up your cross and follow Jesus. (Matthew 10:38)
Don’t find your life. (Matthew 10:39)
Don’t try to save your life. (Matthew 16:25)
Lose your life for Jesus’s sake (and the gospel’s). (Matthew 10:39)
Come to Jesus. (Matthew 11:28)
Take up Jesus’s yoke. (Matthew 11:29)
Learn of Jesus. (Matthew 11:29)
Don’t say anything bad about the Holy Ghost. (Matthew 12:31-32)

Do the will of Jesus’s father (or hear the word of God and do it). (Matthew 12:50)
Don’t do iniquity or offend the son of man’s angels. (Matthew 13:41-42)
Be converted like a little child. (Matthew 18:13)

Don’t offend a little one that believes in Jesus. (Matthew 18:6)
Don’t offend. (Matthew 18:7)
Don’t despise one of the little ones. (Matthew 18:10)
If your brother trespasses against you, go and tell him to his face. (Matthew 18:15)
If he won’t listen to you, take one or two others with you. (Matthew 18:16)
If he won’t listen to the two (or three) of you, tell the church. (Matthew 18:17)
If he won’t listen to the church, treat him as a heathen and a publican. (Matthew 18:17)
Forgive your brother 49 times. (Matthew 18:21-22)
Let little children come to Jesus. (Matthew 19:14)

Wear a wedding garment. (Matthew 22:12-13)
Do whatever the scribes and Pharisees tell you to do. (Matthew 23:1-3)
Don’t do what the scribes and Pharisees do. (Matthew 23:3)
Don’t let anyone call you “Rabbi”. (Matthew 23:8)
Don’t call anyone “Father”. (Matthew 23:9)
Don’t let anyone call you “Master”. (Matthew 23:19)

Give a cup of water to a a little one in the name of a disciple. (Matthew 10:42)
Watch and be ready for the coming of the Son of man. (Matthew 24:42-51)
Baptize everyone in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. (Matthew 28:19)

 

Don’t divorce your wife (even if she has fornicated). (Mark 10:9-12)
If someone takes away your property, don’t ask for it back (Luke 6:30)

Don’t be ashamed of Jesus. (Mark 8:38)
Hate your family and yourself. (Luke 14:26)

Go and do likewise. (Behave like the Good Samaritan.) (Luke 10:30-37)
Receive a child (or a disciple of Jesus) in Jesus’s name. (Mark 9:37)
Receive whomever Jesus sends. (John 13:20)
Listen to Jesus’s disciples. (Luke 10:16)
Don’t despise Jesus’s disciples. (Luke 10:16)
Don’t defraud. (Mark 10:19)
Don’t be rich. (Luke 6:24)
Don’t eat until you are full. (:)
Don’t laugh. (Luke 6:25)
Don’t have everyone say nice things about you. (Luke 6:26)
Preach the gospel to every creature. (Mark 16:14)
Don’t stop non-Christians from casting out devils in Jesus’s name. (Mark 9:38-39)
Give a cup of water to a Christian. (Mark 9:41)
Keep state and church separate. (Matthew 22:21)
Don’t wear long clothing, love being greeted, take the best seats, devour widows’ houses, and make long prayers. (Mark 12:38-40)
Don’t be deceived by false Christs. (Matthew 24:4-5)
Don’t worry about wars and rumors of wars. (Matthew 24:6)
When the end of the world is about to happen and you have to testify, don’t worry about what to say. (Mark 13:11)
If anyone says to you, “Lo, here is Christ” or “Lo, there he is”, don’t believe it. (Matthew 24:23-24)
Learn a fig tree parable. (Matthew 24:32-33)
Give water to thirsty people. (Matthew 25:34-35)
Take in strangers. (Matthew 25:34-36)
Visit the sick. (Matthew 25:34-36)
Come to prisoners. (Matthew 25:34-36)
Hear Jesus’s word and believe on the one who sent him. (John 5:24)
Believe in Jesus. (John 3:16-18)
Kill anyone who refuses to be ruled by God (or Jesus). (Luke 19:27)
Be born again. (John 3:3)
Eat Jesus’s body and drink his blood. (John 6:53-54)
Teach everyone all of Jesus’s commandments. (Matthew 28:18-20)

Be baptized in the name of Jesus. (Acts 2:38)
Obey God rather than men. (Acts 5:29)
Kill and eat animals. (Acts 10:9-13)
Don’t call anyone common or unclean. (Acts 10:28)
Abstain from meats offered to idols. (Acts 15:20)
Don’t fornicate. (Acts 15:20)
Abstain from strangled things. (Acts 15:20)
Abstain from blood. (Acts 15:20)

Offer your body as a sacrifice to God. (Romans 12:1)
Don’t conform to the world. (Romans 12:2)
Be transformed by renewing your mind. (Romans 12:2)
Don’t think too much of yourself (Romans 12:3)
Don’t be slothful in business. (Romans 12:11)
Be fervent in spirit. (Romans 12:11)
Be patient in tribulation. (Romans 12:12)
Pray a lot. (Romans 12:12)
Give money to saints. (Romans 12:13)
Be hospitable. (Romans 12:13)
Rejoice with those who are rejoicing. (Romans 12:15)
Weep with those who are weeping. (Romans 12:15)
Agree with everyone about everything. (Romans 12:16)
Hang out with the little people. (Romans 12:16)
Don’t return evil for evil. (Romans 12:17)
Be honest in your dealings with others. (Romans 12:17)
Try to live peaceably with everyone. (Romans 12:18)
Don’t take revenge. Let God do it for you. (Romans 12:19)
Overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:21)
Submit to the authority of the government. (Romans 13:1-2)
Pay your taxes. (Romans 13:6-7)
Don’t owe anyone anything. (Romans 13:8)
Don’t participate in riots. (Romans 13:13)
Don’t walk in drunkenness. (Romans 13:13)
Don’t be sexually promiscuous. (Romans 🙂
Don’t envy. (Romans 13:13)
Put on Jesus. (Romans 13:14)
Don’t try to satisfy your lusts. (Romans 13:14)
Accept people with weak faith. (Romans 14:1)
Don’t associate with arguing doubters. (Romans 14:1)
Don’t judge those with different dietary preferences. (Romans 14:3)
Be fully persuaded in your own mind. (Romans 14:5)
Don’t cause anyone to stumble. (Romans 14:13)
Don’t destroy a vegetarian by serving meat. (Romans 14:15-17)
Edify one another. (Romans 14:19)
If you wonder if it’s OK to eat something, don’t eat it. (Romans 14:23)
If you are strong, bear the iniquities of the weak. (Romans 15:1)
Please your neighbor. (Romans 15:2)
Receive one another. (Romans 15:7)
Mark and avoid those that disagree with Paul. (Romans 16:17-18)

If you think you are wise, become a fool so that you will be wise. (1 Corinthians 3:18)
Don’t glory in men. (1 Corinthians 3:21)
Don’t judge anyone or anything until the Lord comes. (1 Corinthians 4:5)
Follow Paul. (1 Corinthians 4:16)
Purge out the old leaven and become a new lump. (1 Corinthians 5:7)
Stay away from fornicators, the covetous, extortioners, and idolaters. (1 Corinthians 5:9-13)
Don’t let unbelievers settle disputes between believers. (1 Corinthians 6:1-7)
Glorify God in your body and spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:20)
If you’re not married, don’t get married. (1 Corinthians 7:7)
If you can’t control yourself, get married. (1 Corinthians 7:1-2)
If you marry, don’t have sex. (1 Corinthians 7:29)
But to avoid fornication and Satan’s temptation, have sex whenever your spouse requires it. (1 Corinthians 7:2-5)
A married believer should stay with an unbelieiving spouse, unless the unbelieving spouse decides to leave. (1 Corinthians 7:12-15)
If you are circumcised, don’t become uncircumcised. (1 Corinthians 7:18)
If you are uncircumcised, don’t get circumcised. (1 Corinthians 7:18)
If you are a slave, don’t worry about it. (1 Corinthians 7:21)
If you are set free, that’s OK too. (1 Corinthians 7:21)
Don’t be a slave to humans. (1 Corinthians 7:23)
Believers should pay preachers to preach to them. (1 Corinthians 9:14)
Don’t lust after evil things. (1 Corinthians 10:6)
Don’t be idolaters. (1 Corinthians 10:7)
Don’t tempt Christ. (1 Corinthians 10:9)
Don’t murmur. (1 Corinthians 10:10)
Seek wealth for other people, not for yourself. (1 Corinthians 10:24)
Eat whatever is sold at the store. (1 Corinthians 10:25)
If you are invited to dinner at an unbeliever’s house, eat whatever is set before you. (1 Corinthians 10:27)
Don’t offend Jews, Gentiles, or the church. (1 Corinthians 10:28)
If a woman refuses to cover her head while praying or prophesying, shave her head. (1 Corinthians 11:5-6)
Men shouldn’t cover their heads. (1 Corinthians 11:7)
Men should not have long hair. (1 Corinthians 11:4)
Don’t eat the bread and drink the cup of the Lord unworthily. (1 Corinthians 11:27-29)
Covet the best gifts. (1 Corinthians 12:31)
Speak in tongues. (1 Corinthians 14:5)
When you speak in an unknown tongue, pray that someone will interpret it (1 Corinthians 14:13)
Don’t be children in understanding. (1 Corinthians 14:20)
Be children in malice. (1 Corinthians 14:20)
Be men in understanding. (1 Corinthians 14:20)
No more than two or three people should speak in tongues, with someone to interpret it. (1 Corinthians 14:27)
Don’t speak in tongues unless an interpreter is present (1 Corinthians 14:28)
At every church service, two or three prophets should speak and everyone else should judge what they say. (1 Corinthians 14:29)
If something is revealed to you while you’re sitting, wait for the other prophets have finished their prophecies (1 Corinthians 14:30-31)
Women are not allowed to speak in church. (1 Corinthians 14:34-35)
If a woman wants to learn something, she should ask her husband at home. (1 Corinthians 14:35)
If you think you are a prophet or spiritual, you must first acknowledge that everything that Paul says is a commandment from God. (1 Corinthians 14:37)
If any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant. (1 Corinthians 14:38)
Covet to prophesy. (1 Corinthians 14:39)
Don’t forbid people to speak in tongues. (1 Corinthians 14:39)
Do everything decently and in order. (1 Corinthians 14:40)
Awake to righteousness. (1 Corinthians 15:34)
Be steadfast, unmoveable. (1 Corinthians 15:58)
Work hard for the Lord. (1 Corinthians 15:58)
Keep the faith. (1 Corinthians 16:13)
Be strong. (1 Corinthians 16:13)
Do everything with charity. (1 Corinthians 16:14)
Greet each other with a holy kiss. (1 Corinthians 16:20)
Curse whoever doesn’t love Jesus. (1 Corinthians 16:22)
Shun unbelievers. (2 Corinthians 6:14-17)
Cleanse yourself of all filthiness of flesh and spirit. (2 Corinthians 7:1)
Be a cheerful giver. (2 Corinthians 9:7)
Force all of your thoughts to obey Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:5)
Don’t think that Paul is a fool. (2 Corinthians 11:16)
Examine yourself to see if Jesus Christ is in you. (2 Corinthians 13:5)
Be of good comfort. (2 Corinthians 13:11)
Curse anyone who preaches any other gospel but the gospel of Paul (Galatians 1:8-9)
Be free with Jesus. (Galatians 5:1)
Don’t get circumcised. (Galatians 5:2-4)
Don’t try to follow the whole law. (Galatians 5:4)
Don’t use your liberty to satisfy the flesh. (Galatians 5:13)
Serve each other in love. (Galatians 5:13)
If you bite and devour one another, make sure you don’t get eaten yourself. (Galatians 5:15)
Walk in the spirit. (Galatians 5:25)
Be led by the Spirit. (Galatians 5:18)
Don’t desire vainglory. (Galatians 5:26)
Don’t provoke one another. (Galatians 5:26)
Restore those who make a mistake in the spirit of meekness. (Galatians 6:1)
Bear one another’s burdens (Galatians 6:2)
Prove your own work. (Galatians 6:4)
Bear your own burden. (Galatians 6:5)
Share good things with your teacher. (Galatians 6:6)
Don’t get tired of doing good things. (Galatians 6:9)
Do good to everyone. (Galatians 6:10)
Don’t be tossed like a child by every wind of doctrine. (Ephesians 4:14)
Put off the old lustful man and put on the new righteous man. (Ephesians 4:22)
Be angry. (Ephesians 4:26)
But don’t let the sun go down on your wrath. (Ephesians 4:26)
Don’t give place to the devil. (Ephesians 4:27)
Stop stealing; work so you can help those in need. (Ephesians 4:28)
Don’t say anything corrupt; say good things instead. (Ephesians 4:29)
Don’t make God’s Holy Spirit sad. (Ephesians 4:30)
Don’t be bitter. (Ephesians 4:31)
Don’t be clamorous and evil speaking. (Ephesians 4:31)
Have malice toward none. (Ephesians 4:31)
Be kind toward one another. (Ephesians 4:32)
Follow God like a dear child. (Ephesians 5:1)
Walk in love. (Ephesians 5:2)
Be clean. (Ephesians 5:3-4)
Don’t talk foolishly. (Ephesians 5:4)
Don’t joke. (Ephesians 5:4)
Give thanks. (Ephesians 5:4)
Don’t hang out with the children of disobedience. (Ephesians 5:7)
Walk as children of light. (Ephesians 5:8)
Prove what is acceptable to the Lord. (Ephesians 5:10)
Don’t have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. (Ephesians 5:11)
Reprove the unfruitful works of darkness. (Ephesians 5:11)
Don’t talk about the secret things done by the unfruitful works of darkness. (Ephesians 5:11-12)
Wake up. (Ephesians 5:14)
Arise from the dead. (Ephesians 5:14)
Walk circumspectly. (Ephesians 5:15)
Redeem the time. (Ephesians 5:16)
Don’t get drunk with wine. (Ephesians 5:18)
Be filled with the Spirit. (Ephesians 5:18)
Talk to yourselves using psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. (Ephesians 5:19)
Submit yourselves to one another. (Ephesians 5:21)
Wives, treat your husband as you would Jesus. (Ephesians 5:22)
Husbands, love your wife like you love your own body. (Ephesians 5:25)
Have conversations that are worthy of the gospel of Christ. (Philippians 1:27)
Don’t be terrified by your enemies. (Philippians 1:28)
Value others more than yourself. (Philippians 2:3)
Have the same mind as Jesus. (Philippians 2:5)
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. (Philippians 2:12)
Beware of dogs. (Philippians 3:2)
Beware of evil workers. (Philippians 3:2)
Beware of circumcision. (Philippians 3:2)
Follow those who follow Paul. (Philippians 3:17)
Stand fast in the Lord. (Philippians 4:4)
Let everyone know how moderate you are. (Philippians 4:5)
Don’t worry about a thing. (Philippians 4:6)
Make requests to God. (Philippians 4:6)
Think about things that are true, just, good, and beautiful. (Philippians 4:8)
Do whatever Paul did. (Philippians 4:9)
Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:21)
Don’t let anyone spoil you with philosophy. (Colossians 2:8)
Don’t bother with Sabbaths or holy days. (Colossians 2:16)
Don’t think you’ll be rewarded for voluntary humility. (Colossians 2:18)
Don’t worship angels. (Colossians 2:18)
Don’t believe in things you haven’t seen. (Colossians 2:18)
Seek things that are above, not on things on the earth. (Colossians 3:1-2)
Mortify your members. (Colossians 3:5)
Don’t be unclean. (Colossians 3:5-6)
Don’t be inordinately affectionate. (Colossians 3:5-6)
Don’t have evil concupiscence. (Colossians 3:5-6)
Don’t be wrathful. (Colossians 3:8)
Don’t blaspheme. (Colossians 3:8)
Don’t let any filthy communication come out of your mouth. (Colossians 3:8)
Be humble. (Colossians 3:12)
Be meek. (Colossians 3:12)
Be long-suffering. (Colossians 3:12)
Forbear one another. (Colossians 3:13)
Let the peace of God rule your heart. (Colossians 3:15)
Let the word of Christ dwell in you. (Colossians 3:16)
Teach one another. (Colossians 3:16)
Do everything in the name of Jesus. (Colossians 3:17)
Children, obey your parents. (Colossians 3:20)
Fathers, don’t make your children angry. (Colossians 3:21)
Slaves, obey your masters. (Colossians 3:22)
Whatever you do, do it heartily. (Colossians 3:23)
Masters, give your slaves what is just and equal (Colossians 4:1)
Walk in wisdom toward nonbelievers. (Colossians 4:5)
Know how to answer everyone. (Colossians 4:6)
Read the epistle from Laodicea. (Colossians 4:16)
Know how to possess your vessel in sanctification and honor. (1 Thessalonians 4:2-5)
Don’t despise. (1 Thessalonians 4:6)
Be quiet. (1 Thessalonians 4:11)
Mind your own business. (1 Thessalonians 4:11)
Work with your own hands. (1 Thessalonians 4:11)
Comfort one another with the words in 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17. (1 Thessalonians 4:18)
Don’t sleep. (1 Thessalonians 5:6)
Be sober. (1 Thessalonians 5:6-8)
Know, esteem, and love your religious leaders. (1 Thessalonians 5:12-13)
Warn the unruly. (1 Thessalonians 5:14)
Comfort the feeble-minded. (1 Thessalonians 5:14)
Support the weak. (1 Thessalonians 5:14)
Be patient with everybody. (1 Thessalonians 5:14)
Don’t quench the Spirit. (1 Thessalonians 5:19)
Don’t despise prophesyings. (1 Thessalonians 5:20)
Prove all things. (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
Hold fast to that which is good. (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
Don’t do anything that appears to be evil. (1 Thessalonians 5:22)
Read 1 Thessalonians to all the holy people. (1 Thessalonians 5:27)
Don’t be deceived by people who say the end of the world will come before there’s a falling away and the man of sin is revealed. (2 Thessalonians 2:3)
Keep believing whatever the author of this epistle says. (2 Thessalonians 2:15)
Stay away from people who walk disorderly. (2 Thessalonians 3:6)
Stay from people who do not accept the tradition taught by the author of this epistle. (2 Thessalonians 3:6)
Follow the author of Second Thessalonians. (2 Thessalonians 3:7)
Let people who will not work starve to death. (2 Thessalonians 3:10)
Work quietly and eat your own bread. (2 Thessalonians 3:12)
Shun those who disobey the commandments in Second Thessalonians. (2 Thessalonians 3:14-15)
Don’t believe fables. (1 Timothy 1:4)
Don’t believe in endless genealogies. (1 Timothy 1:4)
Pray for everybody. (1 Timothy 2:1)
Men should pray everywhere. (1 Timothy 2:8-9)
Women should dress modestly. (1 Timothy 2:8-9)
Women should not braid their hair. (1 Timothy 2:8-9)
Women should not wear expensive jewelry. (1 Timothy 2:8)
Women should do good works. (1 Timothy 2:10)
Women be silent. (1 Timothy 2:11)
Women should not teach. (1 Timothy 2:12)
Women should never have authority over men. (1 Timothy 2:12)
Bishops and deacons must perfect and have only one wife. (1 Timothy 3:2-7)
Exercise to become godly. (1 Timothy 4:7-8)
Honor widows that are widows indeed. (1 Timothy 5:3-10)
Refuse young widows. (1 Timothy 5:11-15)
If you have any widows, take care of them yourself. The church will only deal with widows indeed. (1 Timothy 5:16)
Give elders that rule well double honor. (1 Timothy 5:17-18)
An elder can’t be accused of any wrongdoing unless there are two or three witnesses. (1 Timothy 5:19)
Publicly rebuke sinners. (1 Timothy 5:20)
Obey all of the commandments in this epistle. (1 Timothy 5:21)
Don’t lay your hands suddenly on anyone. (1 Timothy 5:22)
Don’t partake of other people’s sins. (1 Timothy 5:22)
Keep yourself pure. (1 Timothy 5:22)
Don’t drink water anymore. Dink wine instead. (1 Timothy 5:23)
Slaves, honor your masters. (1 Timothy 6:1)
If your master is a believer, serve him. (1 Timothy 6:2)
Shun those who teach anything that disagrees with the commandments in this epistle. (1 Timothy 6:3-5)
If you have food and clothes, be content. (1 Timothy 6:8)
Avoid wealth. (1 Timothy 6:9-11)
Try to be godly. (1 Timothy 6:11)
Fight the good fight of faith. (1 Timothy 6:12)
Hold on to eternal life. (1 Timothy 6:12)
Tell the rich not to put their trust in their riches. (1 Timothy 6:17)
Rich people should do good by distributing their wealth among others. (1 Timothy 6:18)
Avoid profane and vain babblings. (1 Timothy 6:20)
Avoid the opposition of science (falsely so called). (1 Timothy 6:20)
Don’t be ashamed of the author of Second Timothy. (2 Timothy 1:8)
Partake in the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God. (2 Timothy 1:8)
Hold fast to the words of the author of Second Timothy. (2 Timothy 1:13)
Keep the good thing that the Holy Ghost gave you. (2 Timothy 1:14)
Endure hardness. (2 Timothy 2:3)
Remember that Jesus of David’s seed was raised from the dead. (2 Timothy 2:8)
Study to show that you are approved by God. (2 Timothy 2:15)
Follow peace. (2 Timothy 2:22)
Avoid foolish and unlearned questions. (2 Timothy 2:23)
Don’t argue. (2 Timothy 2:24)
Be gentle with everyone. (2 Timothy 2:25)
Meekly instruct those that oppose themselves. (2 Timothy 2:25-26)
Watch everything. (2 Timothy 4:5)
Be an evangelist. (2 Timothy 4:5)
Prove your ministry. (2 Timothy 4:5)
Rebuke the Cretans (Titus 1:12)
Old men should be sober, grave, temperate, faithful, charitable, and patient. (2 Timothy 2:2)
Old women should be holy, not false accusers, not drink too much wine, and teach good things. (2 Timothy 2:3)
Young men should be sober-minded. (2 Timothy 2:6)
Don’t let anyone despise you. (2 Timothy 2:15)
Don’t say bad things about anyone. (2 Timothy 3:2)
Reject heretics. (Titus 3:10)
Watch out for the evil heart of unbelief. (Hebrews 3:12)
Exhort one another daily. (Hebrews 3:13)
Work to enter into that rest. (Hebrews 4:11)
Don’t lose your confidence. (Hebrews 10:35)
Lift up your hands and knees, and make straight paths for your feet. (Hebrews 12:12-13)
Don’t refuse Jesus. (Hebrews 12:24-25)
Don’t forget to entertain strangers. (Hebrews 13:2)
Remember those who are not free. (Hebrews 13:3)
Remember those who suffer adversity. (Hebrews 13:3)
Don’t include any covetousness in your conversation. (Hebrews 13:5)
Be content with what you have.. (Hebrews 13:5)
Remember those who rule over you. (Hebrews 13:7)
Remember those who spoke the word of God to you. (Hebrews 13:7)
Don’t get carried away with strange doctrines. (Hebrews 13:9)
Pray for the author of Hebrews. (Hebrews 13:18)
If you lack wisdom, ask God to give it to you. (James 1:5)
Don’t say you were tempted by God. (James 1:13)
Don’t make a mistake. (James 1:16)
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. (James 1:19)
Don’t be filthy and naughty. (James 1:21)
Receive with meekness the planted word. (James 1:21)
Do the word; don’t just hear it. (James 1:22)
Bridle you tongue. (James 1:26)
Visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction. (James 1:27)
Keep yourself unspotted from the world. (James 1:27)
Don’t treat the rich better than the poor. (James 2:1-6)
Submit to God. (James 4:7)
Resist the devil. (James 4:7)
Get close to God. (James 4:8)
Be afflicted. (James 4:9)
If you are rich, weep and howl. (James 5:1)
Be patient. Jesus is coming soon. (James 5:8)
Grudge not. (James 5:9)
If you are afflicted, pray. (James 5:13)
If you are merry, sing psalms. (James 5:13)
If you are sick, ask the elders to pray for you. (James 5:14-15)
Confess your faults to one another. (James 5:15)
Convert anyone who believes incorrectly. (James 5:19)
Gird up the loins of your mind. (1 Peter 1:13)
Hope for the grace that Jesus will bring when he returns. (1 Peter 1:13)
Don’t fashion yourself according to your ignorant former lusts. (1 Peter 1:14)
Be holy in all of your conversations. (1 Peter 1:15)
Desire the sincere milk of the word. (1 Peter 2:2)
Honor all men (1 Peter 2:17)
Love the brotherhood. (1 Peter 2:17)
Honor the king. (1 Peter 2:17)
Husbands, honor your wife. (1 Peter 3:7)
Have compassion on one another. (1 Peter 3:4)
Be pitiful. (1 Peter 3:8)
Be courteous. (1 Peter 3:8)
Be ready to explain your beliefs to anyone who asks. (1 Peter 3:15)
Don’t be a busybody. (1 Peter 4:15)
Elders, feed the flock of God. (1 Peter 5:2-3)
Young people, submit to your elders. (1 Peter 5:5)
Everyone should be subject to everyone else. (1 Peter 5:5)
Watch out for the devil. (1 Peter 5:8)
Make sure your calling and election is sure. (2 Peter 1:10)
Don’t love the world. (1 John 2:18)
Abide in Jesus. (1 John 2:28)
Believe on the name of God’s son, Jesus Christ. (1 John 3:23)
Don’t believe every spirit. (1 John 4:1)
Test the spirits to see if they are from God. (1 John 4:1)
Keep yourselves from idols. (1 John 5:32)
Defend the faith. (Jude 3)
Remember the words of the apostles who said there would be mockers in the last days. (Jude 17-18)
Save others by pulling them out of the fire, while hating their garments that are spotted by the flesh. (Jude 23)
Hear what the Spirit says to the churches. (Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22)
Don’t add any words to the book of Revelation. (Revelation 22:18)
Don’t remove any words from the book of Revelation. (Revelation 22:19)