
The following are 267 Old Testament laws a very few of which are relevant in principle, and not necessarily in specifics. Also, 1050 New Testament Commands HERE! After reading this you may understand why case law is a violation of Biblical law and a detriment to society.
1. To know there is God.
(Exodus 20:2)
2. To have no other gods.
(Exodus 20:3)
3. To know that He is one.
(Deuteronomy 6:4)
4. To love Him.
(Deuteronomy 6:5)
5. To fear Him.
(Deuteronomy 10:20)
6. To sanctify His Name.
(Leviticus 22:32)
7. Not to profane His Name.
(Leviticus 22:32)
8. To worship Him as He has ordered and not destroy holy objects.
(Deuteronomy 12:4)
9. To listen to the true prophet.
(Deuteronomy 18:15)
10. Not to test the prophet.
(Deuteronomy 6:16)
11. To emulate His ways.
(Deuteronomy 28:9)
12. To be with those who only worship Him.
(Deuteronomy 10:20)
13. To love your neighbor as yourself.
(Leviticus 19:18)
14. To love converts.
(Deuteronomy 10:19)
15. Not to hate your brother in your heart.
(Leviticus 19:17)
16. To reprove your neighbor when necessary.
(Leviticus 19:17a)
17. Avoid being complicit in your neighbor’s sin.
(Leviticus 19:17b)
18. Not to oppress the weak.
(Exodus 22:21)
19. Not to slander.
(Leviticus 19:16)
20. Not to take revenge.
(Leviticus 19:18)
21. Not to bear a grudge.
(Leviticus 19:18)
22. Teach Biblical moral law to your children.
(Deuteronomy 6:7)
23. To respect and defer to the elders.
(Leviticus 19:32)
24. Not to blaspheme or curse a judge.
(Exodus 22:27)
25. Not to make worship or bow down to idols.
(Exodus 20:4 & 5)
26. Not to turn a people to idolatry.
(Exodus 23:13)
27. To destroy a city that has turned to idol worship and do not rebuild it nor profit from it.
(Deuteronomy 13:17 & 18)
28. Do not promote missionaries of idol worship.
(Deuteronomy 13:12)
29. Not to love the idol missionary, to hate him, do not save him, do not defend him, incriminate him (Deuteronomy 13:9)
30. Do not prophesy falsely, and execute a false prophet
(Deuteronomy 18:20)
31. To ignore the false prophet.
(Deuteronomy 13:4)
32. Not to fear killing a false prophet.
(Deuteronomy 18:22)
33. Never swear in the name of an idol.
(Exodus 23:13)
34. Don’t perform as or believe those who purport to channel spirits and predict the future .
(Leviticus 19:31)
35. Not to perform as or consult fortunetellers.
(Leviticus 19:31)
36. Not to burn your children in a sacrificial fire to Molech.
(Leviticus 18:21)
37. Not to erect a stone pillar in a place of public worship.
(Deuteronomy 16:22)
38. Not to erect an idol or bow down on a smooth stone for worship.
(Leviticus 26:1)
39. Not to plant a tree as a sacred pole.
(Deuteronomy 16:21)
40. Destroy idols, their accessories, and the places where they were worshipped.
(Deuteronomy 12:2)
41. Do not derive benefit from idols or bring abominations home.
(Deuteronomy 7:26)
42. Do not derive benefit from the gold and silver accessories of idols.
(Deuteronomy 7:25)
43. Make no covenant with Canaanites (i.e. unbelievers) or their gods.
(Deuteronomy 7:2)
44. Show them no favor.
(Deuteronomy 7:2)
45. Not to let them dwell in your land.
(Exodus 23:33)
46. Not to imitate their corrupt behavior, customs and clothing.
(Leviticus 20:23)
47. Not to be superstitious (i.e. fear black cats walking in front of you etc.).
(Leviticus 19:26)
48. To not self-induce a trance to foresee events or tolerate soothsayers.
(Deuteronomy 18:10)
49. Not to engage in astrology.
(Leviticus 19:26)
50. Not to say incantations or cast spells.
(Deuteronomy 18:11)
51. Not to attempt contacting the dead.
(Deuteronomy 18:11)
52. Not to talk or consult with mediums, wizards.
(Deuteronomy 18:11)
53. Not to do sorcery.
(Deuteronomy 18:10)
54. Men must not wear women’s clothes.
(Deuteronomy 22:5)
55. Women must not wear men’s clothes.
(Deuteronomy 22:5)
56. Not to tattoo your skin.
(Leviticus 19:28)
57. Not to tear your skin for idolatry or mourning.
(Deuteronomy 14:1)
58. Wrongdoers must correct their ways and confess before God.
(Numbers 5:7)
59. Serve God with prayer.
(Exodus 23:25)
60. Bless God after meals.
(Deuteronomy 8:10)
61. To circumcise (baptize for Christians) every male (& female) on the eighth day.
(Leviticus 12:3)
62. To rest on the seventh day.
(Exodus 23:12)
63. Not to do prohibited work on the seventh day (mercy and necessity are not “prohibited”)
(Exodus 20:10)
64. Stay near home and within city bounds on the Sabbath.
(Exodus 16:29)
65. Not to do prohibited labor.
(Leviticus 23:31)
66. Families shall pay an annual half-shekel temple tax.
(Exodus 30:13)
67. A man should contractually marry a woman before living with her.
(Deuteronomy 24:1)
68. Not to withhold food, clothing, and relations from your wife.
(Exodus 21:10)
69. A divorced wife must receive a written bill of divorce.
(Deuteronomy 24:1)
70. A man cannot remarry his divorced wife.
(Deuteronomy 24:4)
71. The court must fine one who seduces a maiden.
(Exodus 22:15-16)
70. The rapist must marry the maiden.
(Deuteronomy 22:29)
73. He must not divorce her.
(Deuteronomy 22:29)
74. The slanderer must remain married to his wife.
(Deuteronomy 22:19)
75. He must not divorce her.
(Deuteronomy 22:19)
76. Not to have relations with your mother.
(Leviticus 18:7)
77. Not to have relations with your father’s wife.
(Leviticus 18:8)
78. Not to have relations with your sister.
(Leviticus 18:9)
79. Not to have relations with your father’s wife’s daughter.
(Leviticus 18:11)
80. Not to have relations with your son’s daughter.
(Leviticus 18:10)
81. Not to have relations with your daughter.
(Leviticus 18:10)
82. Not to have relations with your daughter’s daughter.
(Leviticus 18:10)
83. Not to marry a woman and her daughter.
(Leviticus 18:17)
84. Not to marry a woman and her son’s daughter.
(Leviticus 18:17)
85. Not to marry a woman and her daughter’s daughter.
(Leviticus 18:17)
86. Not to have relations with your father’s sister.
(Leviticus 18:12)
87. Not to have relations with your mother’s sister.
(Leviticus 18:13)
88. Not to have relations with your father’s brother’s wife (same father).
(Leviticus 18:14)
89. Not to have relations with your son’s wife.
(Leviticus 18:15)
90. Not to have relations with your brother’s wife (same father and/or mother).
(Leviticus 18:16)
91. Not to have relations with your wife’s sister.
(Leviticus 18:18)
92. A man must not have relations with a beast.
(Leviticus 18:23)
93. A woman must not have relations with a beast.
(Leviticus 18:23)
94. Not to have homosexual relations.
(Leviticus 18:22)
95. Not to have homosexual relations with your father.
(Leviticus 18:7)
96. Not to have homosexual relations with your father’s brother.
(Leviticus 18:14)
97. Not to have relations with a married woman.
(Leviticus 18:20)
98. Not to have relations with a menstrually unclean woman.
(Leviticus 18:19)
99. Not to marry Gentiles (in the case of Christians, not to marry an unbeliever)
(Deuteronomy 7:3)
100. Not to castrate any male (including animals).
(Leviticus 22:24)
101. Not to eat the fruit of a tree for the first three years.
(Leviticus 19:23)
102. Not to eat or drink anything offered as sacrifice to an idol.
(Deuteronomy 32:38)
103. Not to take a nesting bird with her eggs and young.
(Deuteronomy 22:6)
104. Not to swear falsely whether in God’s Name or not.
(Leviticus 19:11 & 12)
105. Not to take God’s Name in vain.
(Exodus 20:7)
106. To not lie or deal falsely, or deny that something of value was left in your possession.
(Leviticus 19:11)
107. To swear in God’s Name only to confirm the truth, when deemed necessary by the courts.
(Deuteronomy 10:20)
108. To keep your promises and vows to God.
(Deuteronomy 23:24)
109. Not to break oaths or vows.
(Numbers 30:3)
110. Not to sell vowed possessions.
(Leviticus 27:28)
111. Not to redeem any vowed possessions.
(Leviticus 27:28)
112. No to reap your harvest to the edge of the field, but leave a corner uncut for the poor.
(Leviticus 19:9 &10)
113. Leave forgotten sheaves in the field or leave a sheaf for the widow, alien poor.
(Deuteronomy 24:19)
114. Not to retrieve them but leave them for the widow, alien, orphan and poor.
(Deuteronomy 24:19)
115. To separate the tithe for the poor (administered through the deacons).
(Deuteronomy 14:28)
116. To give charity.
(Deuteronomy 15:11)
117. Not to withhold charity from those in need.
(Deuteronomy 15:7)
118. To set aside a tithed portion of the offerings for the priesthood).
(Deuteronomy
119. To bring the first fruits into the temple.
(Exodus 23:19)
120. To rest the land during the seventh year and do no work, to allow for the rejuvenation of the earth.
(Exodus 34:21)
121. Not to work the land during the seventh year.
(Leviticus 25:4)
122. Not to work with trees (to produce fruit) during the seventh year.
(Leviticus 25:4)
123. Not to harvest wild crops in the seventh year.
(Leviticus 25:5)
124. Not to systematically pick fruit in the seventh year.
(Leviticus 25:5)
125. To leave untouched all produce that grew in the seventh year.
(Exodus 23:11)
126. To relax all loans in the seventh year.
(Deuteronomy 15:3)
127. Not to pressure the debtor in the seventh year.
(Deuteronomy 15:2)
128. Not to refrain from lending in the year of remission for fear of monetary loss.
(Deuteronomy 15:9)
129. The court must count and determine the year of the Jubilee.
(Leviticus 25:8)
130. The court must sanctify the fiftieth year.
(Leviticus 25:10)
131. To sound the ram’s horn on Yom Kippur of the Jubilee year, to free the slaves.
(Leviticus 25:9)
132. Not to work the land during the fiftieth year.
(Leviticus 25:11)
133. Not to reap or harvest in the fiftieth year.
(Leviticus 25:11)
134. To build a Sanctuary.
(Exodus 25:8)
135. Not to build the altar with stones hewn by metal.
(Exodus 20:22)
136. Not to climb steps to the altar.
(Exodus 20:23)
137. To show reverence for the temple.
(Leviticus 19:30)
138. Levites shall guard the temple area and not leave it unguarded.
(Numbers 18:3 & 5)
139. A priest must not enter the temple when drunk.
(Leviticus 10:9)
140. A priest must not enter the temple with unkempt hair.
(Leviticus 10:6)
141. A priest must not enter the temple with torn clothes.
(Leviticus 10:6)
142. A priest must not enter the sanctuary for no reason.
(Leviticus 16:2)
143. A priest must not leave the temple during the service.
(Leviticus 10:7)
144. A non-priest must not serve.
(Numbers 18:4)
145. An apostate must not eat from the Paschal Lamb.
(Exodus 12:43)
146. A hired servant or traveler must not eat from the Paschal Lamb.
(Exodus 12:45)
147. An uncircumcised male must not eat from the Paschal Lamb.
(Exodus 12:48)
148. No bone of the Paschal Lamb shall be broken.
(Exodus 12:46)
149. Not to leave any of the Lamb over until morning.
(Exodus 12:10)
150. The court must judge the damages incurred by a goring ox.
(Exodus 21:28)
151. The court must judge the damages incurred by an animal eating in another’s field.(Exodus 22:4)
152. The court must judge the damages incurred by an open pit.
(Exodus 21:33)
153. The court must judge the damages incurred by fire.
(Exodus 22:5)
154. Not to steal money stealthily.
(Leviticus 19:11)
155. The court must implement punitive measures against the thief.
(Exodus 21:37)
156. Each individual must ensure that his scales and weights are accurate.
(Leviticus 19:36)
157. Not to commit injustice with scales and weights.
(Leviticus 19:35)
158. Not to possess inaccurate weights and scales even if they are not for use.
(Deuteronomy 25:13)
159. Not to move a boundary marker to steal someone’s property.
(Deuteronomy 19:14)
160. Not to kidnap.
(Exodus 20:13)
161. Not to rob openly.
(Leviticus 19:13)
162. Not to withhold wages or fail to repay a debt.
(Leviticus 19:13)
163. Not to covet and scheme to acquire another’s possession.
(Exodus 20:14)
164. Not to desire another’s possession.
(Deuteronomy 5:18)
165. Return the robbed object or its value.
(Leviticus 5:23)
166. Not to ignore a lost object.
(Deuteronomy 22:3)
167. Return the lost object.
(Deuteronomy 22:1)
168. The court must implement laws against one who assaults another or damages another’s property.
(Exodus 21:18)
169. Not to murder.
(Exodus 20:13)
170. Not to accept money to save a convicted murderer.
(Numbers 35:31)
171. The court must send the accidental murderer to a city of refuge.
(Numbers 35:25)
172. Not to accept monetary restitution instead of sending the accidental murderer to, or releasing him from, a city of refuge.
(Numbers 35:32)
173. Not to kill the murderer before he stands trial.
(Numbers 35:12)
174. To save someone being pursued even by taking the life of the pursuer.
(Deuteronomy 25:12)
175. Not to pity the pursuer.
(Numbers 35:12)
176. Not to stand idly by if someone’s life is in danger.
(Leviticus 19:16)
177. Designate refuge cities and prepare routes of access.
(Deuteronomy 19:3)
178. Not to allow pitfalls and obstacles to remain on your property.
(Deuteronomy 22:8)
179. Make a guardrail around flat roofs.
(Deuteronomy 22:8)
180. Not to put a stumbling block before the blind.
(Leviticus 19:14)
181. Help another remove the load from a beast that can no longer carry it.
(Exodus 23:5)
182. Help others load their beasts.
(Deuteronomy 22:4)
183. Not to leave fallen beasts distraught with their burdens but help to load or unload.
(Deuteronomy 22:4)
184. Buy and sell according to Torah law.
(Leviticus 25:14)
185. Not to overcharge or underpay for an article.
(Leviticus 25:14)
186. Not to insult or harm anybody with words.
(Leviticus 25:17)
187. Not to cheat a sincere convert monetarily.
(Exodus 22:20)
188. Not to insult or harm a sincere convert with words.
(Exodus 22:20)
189. Not to work the slave oppressively nor let a foreigner do it.
(Leviticus 25:43 & 53)
190. Not to extradite a slave who fled to (Biblical) Israel.
(Deuteronomy 23:16)
191. Not to wrong a slave who has come to Israel for refuge.
(Deuteronomy 23:17)
192. The courts must carry out the laws of a hired worker and hired guard.
(Exodus 22:9)
193. Do not delay payment of wages past the agreed time.
(Leviticus 19:13)
194. The hired worker may eat from the unharvested crops where he works.
(Deuteronomy 23:25)
195. The worker must not eat while on hired time.
(Deuteronomy 23:26)
196. The worker must not take more than he can eat.
(Deuteronomy 23:25)
197. Not to muzzle an ox while plowing.
(Deuteronomy 25:4)
198. The courts must carry out the laws of a borrower.
(Exodus 22:1
199. The courts must carry out the laws of the unpaid guard.
(Exodus 22:6)
200. Lend without interest to the poor.
(Exodus 22:24)
201. Not to press the poor for repayment.
(Exodus 22:24)
202. Press the idolater for payment.
(Deuteronomy 15:3)
203. The creditor must not forcibly take collateral.
(Deuteronomy 24:10)
204. Return the collateral to the debtor when it is needed and do not delay.
(Deuteronomy 24:12 & 13)
205. Not to demand collateral from a widow.
(Deuteronomy 24:17)
206. Not to demand as collateral utensils needed for preparing food.
(Deuteronomy 24:6)
207. Don’t lend with interest in the community of believers (for a business loan interest is o.k).
(Leviticus 25:37)
208. Not to borrow with interest.
(Deuteronomy 23:20)
209. Lend to, and borrow from, idolaters at interest.
(Deuteronomy 23:21)
210. The court must carry out the laws of the plaintiff, admitter or denier.
(Exodus 22:8)
211. Carry out the laws of the order of inheritance.
(Numbers 27:8)
212. Appoint judges, & judges not to take a bribe (campaign contributions – special interests)
(Deuteronomy 16:18)
213. Not to appoint judges who are not familiar with judicial procedure.
(Deuteronomy 1:17)
214. Decide by majority in case of disagreement.
(Exodus 23:2)
215. The court must not execute through a majority of one, but at least a majority of two is required.
(Exodus 23:2)
216. A judge who presents a case for acquittal must not present an argument for conviction in capital cases.
(Exodus 23:2)
217. The court must carry out death penalty of strangulation, stoning, burning or the sword (today death penalty is still relevant).
(Deuteronomy 21: 10 & 20, 22:14 & 24)
218. The court must hang those stoned for blasphemy or idolatry.
(Deuteronomy 21:22)
219. Bury the executed on the day they were killed.
(Deuteronomy 21:23)
220. Not to delay the burial overnight.
(Deuteronomy 21:23)
221. The court must not let the sorcerer live.
(Exodus 22:17)
222. The court must flog the wrongdoer.
(Deuteronomy 25:2)
223. The court must not exceed the prescribed number of 40 lashes.
(Deuteronomy 25:3)
224. The court must not kill anybody on circumstantial evidence. (2 eye witnesses required)
(Exodus 23:7)
225. The court must not punish anybody who was forced to commit a crime.
(Deuteronomy 22:26)
226. The judge must not pity the murderer or assaulter at the trial.
(Deuteronomy 19:13)
227. The judge must not have mercy on the poor man at the trial.
(Leviticus 19:15)
228. The judge must not respect the great man at the trial.
(Leviticus 19:15)
229. The judge must not decide unjustly the case of the habitual transgressor.
(Exodus 23:6)
230. The judge must not pervert justice.
(Leviticus 19:15)
231. The judge must not pervert a case involving a convert or an orphan.
(Deuteronomy 24:17)
232. Judge righteously.
(Leviticus 19:15)
233. The judge must not fear a violent man in judgment.
(Deuteronomy 1:17)
234. Judges must not accept bribes.
(Exodus 23:8)
235. Judges must not accept testimony unless both parties are present.
(Exodus 23:1)
236. Not to curse judges.
(Exodus 22:27)
237. Not to curse the head of state.
(Exodus 22:27)
238. Not to curse a deaf person.
(Leviticus 19:14)
239. Anyone who knows evidence must testify at a trial.
(Leviticus 5:1)
240. Carefully interrogate the witness.
(Deuteronomy 13:15)
241. A witness must not serve as a judge in capital crimes.
(Numbers 35:30)
242. Not to accept testimony from a lone witness.
(Deuteronomy 19:15)
243. Transgressors must not testify (false witness).
(Exodus 23:1)
244. The litigant’s relatives cannot testify.
(Deuteronomy 24:16)
245. Not to testify falsely.
(Exodus 20:13)
247. Do to the false witness what he tried to do to the defendant.
(Deuteronomy 19:19)
248. Act according to the rulings of the high court.
(Deuteronomy 17:11)
249. Not to deviate from a legal discussion.
(Deuteronomy 17:11)
250. Not to add to the Torah commandments or their oral explanations. (This does not include the Talmud or any other writings other than Scripture)
(Deuteronomy 13:1)
251. Not to diminish any commandments from the Torah, in whole or in part.
(Deuteronomy 13:1)
252. Not to curse your father and mother.
(Exodus 21:17)
253. Not to strike your father and mother.
(Exodus 21:15)
254. Respect your father and mother.
(Exodus 20:12)
255. Fear your father and mother.
(Leviticus 19:3)
256. Not to behave like the rebellious son as described in the Torah.
(Deuteronomy 21:20)
257. Mourn for relatives—even priests.
(Leviticus 10:19)
258. Appoint a king from Israel. (who does not exhibit greed, excessive wealth etc.)
(Deuteronomy 17:15, 16 & 17)
259. Not to appoint a convert.
(Deuteronomy 17:15)
260. Offer peace terms to the residents of a city under siege and treat them according to the Torah if they accept surrender terms.
(Deuteronomy 20:10)
261. Not to destroy fruit trees even during a siege.
(Deuteronomy 20:19)
262. Prepare latrines outside the camps.
(Deuteronomy 23:13)
263. Prepare a shovel for each soldier to dig with.
(Deuteronomy 23:14)
264. Appoint a priest to speak to the soldiers during war.
(Deuteronomy 20:2)
265. A newly married man who has built a home or planted a vineyard is exempt from the military to rejoice with his wife.
(Deuteronomy 24:5)
266. Not to conscript or involve the newly married man in military or communal service.
(Deuteronomy 24:5)
267. Not to panic and retreat during battle.
(Deuteronomy 20:3)
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