Laws of the Government

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Miqdash bethel

The Governmental Laws

These are the Laws of Yahweh, given to His Prophet Mosheh, numbered (for reference only,613) and is the Law of Miqdash Bethel, to guide the High Head Elder in it's administration

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Yahweh-Elohim

To know that Yahweh exists (Ex. 20:2; Deut. 5:6)
Not to entertain the idea that there is any god but the Eternal (Ex. 20:3)
Not to blaspheme (Ex. 22:27; in some texts, Ex. 22:28), the penalty for which is death (Lev. 24:16)
To hallow Yahweh's name (Lev. 22:32)
Not to profane Yahweh's name (Lev . 22:32)
To know that Yahweh is One, a complete Unity (Deut. 6:4)
To fear Him reverently (Deut. 6:13; 10:20)
Not to put the word of Yahweh to the test (Deut. 6:16)
To imitate His good and upright ways (Deut. 28:9)

Torah

To honor the old and the wise (Lev. 19:32)
To learn Torah and to teach it (Deut. 6:7)
To cleave to those who know Him (Deut. 10:20)
Not to add to the commandments of the Torah, whether in the Written Law or in its interpretation received by tradition (Deut. 13:1)
Not to take away from the commandments of the Torah (Deut. 13:1)
That every person shall write a scroll of the Torah for himself (Deut. 31:19)

Signs and Symbols

To circumcise the male offspring (Gen. 17:12; Lev. 12:3)
To put tzitzit on the corners of clothing (Num. 15:38)
To bind tefillin on the head (Deut. 6:8)
To bind tefillin on the arm (Deut. 6:8)
To affix the mezuzah to the doorposts and gates of your house (Deut. 6:9)

Prayer and Blessings

To pray to Yahweh (Ex. 23:25; Deut. 6:13)
To read the Shema in the morning and at night (Deut. 6:7)
To recite grace after meals (Deut. 8:10)
Not to lay down a stone for worship (Lev. 26:1)

Love and Brotherhood

To love all human beings who are of the covenant (Lev. 19:18)
Not to stand by idly when a human life is in danger (Lev. 19:16)
Not to wrong any one in speech (Lev. 25:17)
Not to carry tales (Lev. 19:16)
Not to cherish hatred in one's heart (Lev. 19:17)
Not to take revenge (Lev. 19:18)
Not to bear a grudge (Lev. 19:18)
Not to put any brother to shame (Lev. 19:17)
Not to curse any other Israelite (Lev. 19:14) (by implication: if you may not curse those who cannot hear, you certainly may not curse those who can)
Not to give occasion to the simple-minded to stumble on the road (Lev. 19:14) (this includes doing anything that will cause another to sin)
To rebuke the sinner (Lev. 19:17)
To relieve a neighbor of his burden and help to unload his beast (Ex. 23:5)
To assist in replacing the load upon a neighbor's beast (Deut. 22:4)
Not to leave a beast, that has fallen down beneath its burden, unaided (Deut. 22:4)

The Poor and Unfortunate

Not to afflict an orphan or a widow (Ex. 22:21)
Not to reap the entire field (Lev. 19:9; Lev. 23:22)
To leave the unreaped corner of the field or orchard for the poor (Lev. 19:9)
Not to gather gleanings (the ears that have fallen to the ground while reaping) (Lev. 19:9)
To leave the gleanings for the poor (Lev. 19:9)
Not to gather ol'loth (the imperfect clusters) of the vineyard (Lev. 19:10)
To leave ol'loth (the imperfect clusters) of the vineyard for the poor (Lev. 19:10; Deut. 24:21)
Not to gather the peret (grapes) that have fallen to the ground (Lev. 19:10)
To leave peret (the single grapes) of the vineyard for the poor (Lev. 19:10)
Not to return to take a forgotten sheaf (Deut. 24:19) This applies to all fruit trees (Deut. 24:20)
To leave the forgotten sheaves for the poor (Deut. 24:19-20)
Not to refrain from maintaining a poor man and giving him what he needs (Deut. 15:7)
To give charity according to one's means (Deut. 15:11)

Treatment of Gentiles

To love the stranger (Deut. 10:19)
Not to wrong the stranger in speech (Ex. 22:20)
Not to wrong the stranger in buying or selling (Ex. 22:20)
Not to intermarry with gentiles (Deut. 7:3)
To exact the debt of an alien (Deut. 15:3)
To lend to an alien at interest (Deut. 23:21)

Marriage, Divorce and Family

To honor father and mother (Ex. 20:12)
Not to smite a father or a mother (Ex. 21:15)
Not to curse a father or mother (Ex. 21:17)
To reverently fear father and mother (Lev. 19:3)
To be fruitful and multiply (Gen. 1:28)
That a eunuch shall not marry a daughter of Israel (Deut. 23:2)
That a mamzer shall not marry the daughter of a Hebrew (Deut. 23:3)
That an Ammonite or Moabite shall never marry the daughter of an Israelite (Deut. 23:4)
Not to exclude a descendant of Esau from the community of Israel for three generations (Deut. 23:8-9)
Not to exclude an Egyptian from the community of Israel for three generations (Deut. 23:8-9) (negative).
That there shall be no harlot (in Israel); that is, that there shall be no intercourse with a woman, without previous marriage with a deed of marriage and formal declaration of marriage (Deut. 23:18)
To take a wife by kiddushin, the sacrament of marriage (Deut. 24:1)
That the newly married husband shall (be free) for one year to rejoice with his wife (Deut. 24:5)
That a bridegroom shall be exempt for a whole year from taking part in any public labor, such as military service, guarding the wall and similar duties (Deut. 24:5)
Not to withhold food, clothing or conjugal rights from a wife (Ex. 21:10)
That the woman suspected of adultery shall be dealt with as prescribed in the Torah (Num. 5:30)
That one who defames his wife's honor (by falsely accusing her of unchastity before marriage) must live with her all his lifetime (Deut. 22:19)
That a man may not divorce his wife concerning whom he has published an evil report (about her unchastity before marriage) (Deut. 22:19)
To divorce by a formal written document (Deut. 24:1)
That one who divorced his wife shall not remarry her, if after the divorce she had been married to another man (Deut. 24:4)
That a widow whose husband died childless must not be married to anyone but her deceased husband's brother (Deut. 25:5)
To marry the widow of a brother who has died childless (Deut. 25:5)
That the widow formally release the brother-in-law (if he refuses to marry her) (Deut. 25:7-9)

Forbidden Sexual Relations

Not to indulge in familiarities with relatives, such as kissing, embracing, winking, skipping, which may lead to incest (Lev. 18:6)
Not to commit incest with one's mother (Lev. 18:7)
Not to commit sodomy with one's father (Lev. 18:7)
Not to commit incest with one's father's wife (Lev. 18:8)
Not to commit incest with one's sister (Lev. 18:9)
Not to commit incest with one's father's wife's daughter (Lev. 18:11)
Not to commit incest with one's son's daughter (Lev. 18:10)
Not to commit incest with one's daughter's daughter (Lev. 18:10)
Not to commit incest with one's daughter (this is not explicitly in the Torah but is inferred from other explicit commands that would include it)
Not to commit incest with one's fathers sister (Lev. 18:12)
Not to commit incest with one's mother's sister (Lev. 18:13)
Not to commit incest with one's father's brothers wife (Lev. 18:14)
Not to commit sodomy with one's father's brother (Lev. 18:14)
Not to commit incest with one's son's wife (Lev. 18:15)
Not to commit incest with one's brother's wife (Lev. 18:16)
Not to commit incest with one's wife's daughter (Lev. 18:17)
Not to commit incest with the daughter of one's wife's son (Lev. 18:17)
Not to commit incest with the daughter of one's wife's daughter (Lev. 18:17)
Not to commit incest with one's wife's sister (Lev. 18:18)
Not to have intercourse with a woman, in her menstrual period (Lev. 18:19)
Not to have intercourse with another man's wife (Lev. 18:20)
Not to commit sodomy with a male (Lev. 18:22)
Not to have intercourse with a beast (Lev. 18:23)
That a woman shall not have intercourse with a beast (Lev. 18:23)
Not to castrate the male of any species; neither a man, nor a domestic or wild beast, nor a fowl (Lev. 22:24)

Times and Seasons

That the new month shall be solemnly proclaimed as holy, and the months and years shall be calculated by the Sanhedrin Supreme Court only (Ex. 12:2) (the authority to declare months is inferred from the use of the word "unto you").
Not to travel on Shabbat outside the limits of one's place of residence (Ex. 16:29)
To sanctify Shabbat (Ex. 20:8)
Not to do work on Shabbat (Ex. 20:10)
To rest on Shabbat (Ex. 23:12; 34:21)
To celebrate the festivals [Passover, Shavu'ot and Sukkot] (Ex. 23:14)
To rejoice on the festivals (Deut. 16:14)
To appear in the Sanctuary on the festivals (Deut. 16:16)
To remove chametz on the Eve of Passover (Ex. 12:15)
To rest on the first day of Passover (Ex. 12:16; Lev. 23:7)
Not to do work on the first day of Passover (Ex. 12:16; Lev. 23:6-7)
To rest on the seventh day of Passover (Ex. 12:16; Lev. 23:8)
Not to do work on the seventh day of Passover (Ex. 12:16; Lev. 23:8)
To eat matzah on the first night of Passover (Ex. 12:18)
That no chametz be in the Israelite's possession during Passover (Ex. 12:19)
Not to eat any food containing chametz on Passover (Ex. 12:20)
Not to eat chametz on Passover (Ex. 13:3)
That chametz shall not be seen in an Israelite's home during Passover (Ex. 13:7)
To discuss the departure from Egypt on the first night of Passover (Ex. 13:8)
Not to eat chametz after mid-day on the fourteenth of Nissan (Deut. 16:3)
To count forty-nine days from the time of the cutting of the Omer (first sheaves of the barley harvest) (Lev. 23:15)
To rest on Shavu'ot (Lev. 23:21)
Not to do work on the Shavu'ot (Lev. 23:21)
To rest on Rosh Hashanah (Lev. 23:24)
Not to do work on Rosh Hashanah (Lev. 23:25)
To hear the sound of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah (Num. 29:1)
To fast on Yom Kippur (Lev. 23:27)
Not to eat or drink on Yom Kippur (Lev. 23:29)
Not to do work on Yom Kippur (Lev. 23:31)
To rest on the Yom Kippur (Lev. 23:32)
To rest on the first day of Sukkot (Lev. 23:35)
Not to do work on the first day of Sukkot (Lev. 23:35)
To rest on the eighth day of Sukkot (Shemini Atzeret) (Lev. 23:36)
Not to do work on the eighth day of Sukkot (Shemini Atzeret) (Lev. 23:36)
To take during Sukkot, a palm branch and the other fruit branches (Lev. 23:40)
To dwell in booths seven days during Sukkot (Lev. 23:42)

Dietary Laws

To examine the marks in cattle (so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean) (Lev. 11:2)
Not to eat the flesh of unclean beasts (Lev. 11:4)
To examine the marks in fishes (so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Lev. 11:9)
Not to eat unclean fish (Lev. 11:11)
To examine the marks in fowl, so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Deut. 14:11)
Not to eat unclean fowl (Lev. 11:13)
To examine the marks in locusts, so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Lev. 11:21)
Not to eat a worm found in fruit (Lev. 11:41)
Not to eat of things that creep upon the earth (Lev. 11:41-42)
Not to eat any vermin of the earth (Lev. 11:44)
Not to eat things that swarm in the water (Lev. 11:43 and 46)
Not to eat of winged insects (Deut. 14:19)
Not to eat the flesh of a beast that is terefah (lit torn) (Ex. 22:30)
Not to eat the flesh of a beast that died of itself (Deut. 14:21)
To slay cattle, deer and fowl according to the laws of shechitah if their flesh is to be eaten (Deut. 12:21) ("as I have commanded" in this verse refers to the technique)
Not to eat a limb removed from a living beast (Deut. 12:23)
Not to slaughter an animal and its young on the same day (Lev. 22:28)
Not to take the mother-bird with the young (Deut. 22:6)
To set the mother-bird free when taking the nest (Deut. 22:6-7)
Not to eat the flesh of an ox that was condemned to be stoned (Ex. 21:28)
Not to boil meat with milk (Ex. 23:19)
Not to eat flesh with milk (Ex. 34:26) (according to the sages, this passage is a distinct prohibition from the one in Ex. 23:19)
Not to eat the of the thigh-vein which shrank (Gen. 32:33)
Not to eat chelev (tallow-fat) (Lev. 7:23)
Not to eat blood (Lev. 7:26)
To cover the blood of undomesticated animals (deer, etc.) and of fowl that have been killed (Lev. 17:13)
Not to eat or drink like a glutton or a drunkard (not to rebel against father or mother) (Lev. 19:26; Deut. 21:20)

Business Practices

Not to do wrong in buying or selling (Lev. 25:14)
Not to make a loan to an Israelite on interest (Lev. 25:37)
Not to borrow on interest (Deut. 23:20) (because this would cause the lender to sin)
Not to take part in any usurious transaction between borrower and lender, neither as a surety, nor as a witness, nor as a writer of the bond for them (Ex. 22:24)
To lend to a poor person (Ex. 22:24) (even though the passage says "if you lend" it is understood as obligatory)
Not to demand from a poor man repayment of his debt, when the creditor knows that he cannot pay, nor press him (Ex. 22:24)
Not to take in pledge utensils used in preparing food (Deut. 24:6)
Not to exact a pledge from a debtor by force (Deut. 24:10)
Not to keep the pledge from its owner at the time when he needs it (Deut. 24:12)
To return a pledge to its owner (Deut. 24:13)
Not to take a pledge from a widow (Deut. 24:17)
Not to commit fraud in measuring (Lev. 19:35)
To ensure that scales and weights are correct (Lev. 19:36)
Not to possess inaccurate measures and weights (Deut. 25:13-14)

Employees, Servants and Slaves

Not to delay payment of a hired man's wages (Lev. 19:13)
That the hired laborer shall be permitted to eat of the produce he is reaping (Deut. 23:25-26)
That the hired laborer shall not take more than he can eat (Deut. 23:25)
That a hired laborer shall not eat produce that is not being harvested (Deut. 23:26)
To pay wages to the hired man at the due time (Deut. 24:15)
To deal judicially with the Hebrew bondman in accordance with the laws appertaining to him (Ex. 21:2-6)
Not to compel the Hebrew servant to do the work of a slave (Lev. 25:39)
Not to sell a Hebrew servant as a slave (Lev. 25:42)
Not to treat a Hebrew servant rigorously (Lev. 25:43)
Not to permit a gentile to treat harshly a Hebrew bondman sold to him (Lev. 25:53)
Not to send away a Hebrew bondman servant empty handed, when he is freed from service (Deut. 15:13)
To bestow liberal gifts upon the Hebrew bondsman (at the end of his term of service), and the same should be done to a Hebrew bondwoman (Deut. 15:14)
To redeem a Hebrew maid-servant (Ex. 21:8)
Not to sell a Hebrew maid-servant to another person (Ex. 21:8)
To espouse a Hebrew maid-servant (Ex. 21:8-9)
To keep the Canaanite slave forever (Lev. 25:46) (affirmative).
Not to surrender a slave, who has fled to the land of Israel, to his owner who lives outside Palestine (Deut. 23:16)
Not to wrong such a slave (Deut. 23:17)
Not to muzzle a beast, while it is working in produce which it can eat and enjoy (Deut. 25:4)

Vows, Oaths and Swearing

That a man should fulfill whatever he has uttered (Deut. 23:24)
Not to swear needlessly (Ex. 20:7)
Not to violate an oath or swear falsely (Lev. 19:12)
To decide in cases of annulment of vows, according to the rules set forth in the Torah (Num. 30:2-17)
Not to break a vow (Num. 30:3)
To swear by His name truly (Deut. 10:20)
Not to delay in fulfilling vows or bringing vowed or free-will offerings (Deut. 23:22)

The Sabbatical and Jubilee Years

To let the land lie fallow in the Sabbatical year (Ex. 23:11; Lev. 25:2)
To cease from tilling the land in the Sabbatical year (Ex. 23:11)
Not to till the ground in the Sabbatical year (Lev. 25:4)
Not to do any work on the trees in the Sabbatical year (Lev. 25:4)
Not to reap the aftermath that grows in the Sabbatical year, in the same way as it is reaped in other years (Lev. 25:5)
Not to gather the fruit of the tree in the Sabbatical year in the same way as it is gathered in other years (Lev. 25:5)
To sound the Ram's horn in the Sabbatical year (Lev. 25:9)
To release debts in the seventh year (Deut. 15:2)
Not to demand return of a loan after the Sabbatical year has passed (Deut. 15:2)
Not to refrain from making a loan to a poor man, because of the release of loans in the Sabbatical year (Deut. 15:9)
To assemble the people to hear the Torah at the close of the seventh year (Deut. 31:12)
To count the years of the Jubilee by years and by cycles of seven years (Lev. 25:8)
To keep the Jubilee year holy by resting and letting the land lie fallow (Lev. 25:10)
Not to cultivate the soil nor do any work on the trees, in the Jubilee Year (Lev. 25:11)
Not to reap the aftermath of the field that grew of itself in the Jubilee Year, in the same way as in other years (Lev. 25:11)
Not to gather the fruit of the tree in the Jubilee Year, in the same way as in other years (Lev. 25:11)
To grant redemption to the land in the Jubilee year (Lev. 25:24)

The Court and Judicial Procedure

To appoint judges and officers in every community of Israel (Deut. 16:18)
Not to appoint as a judge, a person who is not well versed in the laws of the Torah, even if he is expert in other branches of knowledge (Deut. 1:17)
To adjudicate cases of purchase and sale (Lev. 25:14)
To judge cases of liability of a paid depositary (Ex. 22:9)
To adjudicate cases of loss for which a gratuitous borrower is liable (Ex. 22:13-14)
To adjudicate cases of inheritances (Num. 27:8-11)
To judge cases of damage caused by an uncovered pit (Ex. 21:33-34)
To judge cases of injuries caused by beasts (Ex. 21:35-36)
To adjudicate cases of damage caused by trespass of cattle (Ex. 22:4)
To adjudicate cases of damage caused by fire (Ex. 22:5)
To adjudicate cases of damage caused by a gratuitous depositary (Ex. 22:6-7)
To adjudicate other cases between a plaintiff and a defendant (Ex. 22:8)
Not to curse a judge (Ex. 22:27)
That one who possesses evidence shall testify in Court (Lev. 5:1)
Not to testify falsely (Ex. 20:13)
That a witness, who has testified in a capital case, shall not lay down the law in that particular case (Num. 35:30)
That a transgressor shall not testify (Ex. 23:1)
That the court shall not accept the testimony of a close relative of the defendant in matters of capital punishment (Deut.