Define

• Mitzvot (מִצְוֹת)
• General commandments, often moral or religious duties (e.g., love God, keep commandments).
• Derived from the Hebrew root צ-ו-ה (Tsade-Vav-Heh), which means "to command" or "to order."

Related words

• Commandments
• Offerings

Connections

It seems initially the Passover Lamb of the Passover Offering could be applied just as the Hebrews in Egypt applied the blood to their door posts. The emphasis is on seeking fellowship with God and gratitude for His redemption. This graphs one into the Congregation of Israel, becoming one of Yah-God's people, brought out of bondage and set free. Jesus became our Passover Lamb offering.

Jesus as an Offering

• Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries. 28 A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me. I will repay,” says the Lord. Again, “The Lord will judge his people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

• John 14:15: "If you love me, you will keep my commandments (mitzvah)."

• John 14:21: "Whoever has my commandments (mitzvah) and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."

• John 15:10: "If you keep my commandments (mitzvah), you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments (mitzvah) and abide in his love."

• 1 John 5:2-3: "By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments (entolē). For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments (mitzvah). And his commandments (entolē) are not burdensome."

List of Commandments (Mitzvot) in Deuteronomy

1. Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 4:2 Deut-04#v2

• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.”
• Blessing: General blessings for obedience (Deuteronomy 28:1-14 Deut-28#v1
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses for disobedience (Deuteronomy 28:15-68) Deut-28#v15
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
  • Sin Offering?: Emphasis on purification from defilement. Unintentional sins against the commandments of God which are not to be done. Primarily those that defile the sinner or the sanctuary requiring purification.

2. Destroy Idolatrous Places of Worship

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 12:2-3
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree. You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses for idolatry (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?

Fear YHWH and Serve Him

Scripture Reference: Deut-06#v13

• Scripture Text (WEB): 13 You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: Yahweh’s jealousy and anger, potential destruction (Deuteronomy 6:15).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
  • Sin Offering?: Emphasis on purification from defilement. Unintentional sins against the commandments of God which are not to be done. Primarily those that defile the sinner or the sanctuary requiring purification.

Scripture Reference: James-04#v7

• Scripture Text (WEB): "Be subject therefore to God.

Do Not Worship Other Gods

Scripture Reference: Deut-06#v14

• Scripture Text (WEB): 14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you,
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: Yahweh’s jealousy and anger, potential destruction (Deuteronomy 6:15).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
  • Sin Offering?: Emphasis on purification from defilement. Unintentional sins against the commandments of God which are not to be done. Primarily those that defile the sinner or the sanctuary requiring purification.

Scripture Reference: Exod-20#v3

• Scripture Text (WEB): You shall have no other gods before me.

Scripture Reference: James-04#v7

• Scripture Text (WEB): Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."
• Blessing: James says, the adversary will flee

4. Love Yahweh Your God

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 6:5
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?

5. Teach God’s Commandments to Your Children

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 6:7
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?

6. Bind God’s Words as a Sign

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 6:8
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
• Notes: Hand represents actions, eyes represent thought or intent.

7. Write God’s Words on Doorposts and Gates

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 6:9
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?

8. Do Not Test Yahweh Your God

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 6:16
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?

9. Make No Covenant the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites Nations

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 7:2
• Scripture Text (WEB): “When Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: Risk of idolatry, leading to destruction (Deuteronomy 7:4; 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
• Note: It doesn't seem as though making a covenant could ever be unintentional. None specified if intentional.

10. Do Not Intermarry with the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites Nations

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 7:3
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor shall you take their daughter for your son.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: Turning to other gods, Yahweh’s anger, destruction (Deuteronomy 7:4).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
• Note: Only way it would be unintentional is if they were slaves?

11. Destroy Idols and Their Altars

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 7:5
• Scripture Text (WEB): “But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses for idolatry (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?

12. Keep the Passover

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 16:1-2
• Scripture Text (WEB): “Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night. You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: None in Deuteronomy; being cut off for eating leaven (Exodus 12:15).
• Offering or Ransom?: Passover Offering (Deuteronomy 16:2).
• Note: No known place chosen by Yah to bring offerings at this time.

13. Do Not Eat Leavened Bread During Passover

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 16:3
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: None in Deuteronomy; being cut off for eating leaven (Exodus 12:15).
• Offering or Ransom?: Passover Offering (Deuteronomy 16:2).
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
• Note: No known place chosen by Yah to bring offerings at this time.

14. Keep the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot)

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 16:9-10
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks. You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a free will offering of your hand, which you shall give according as Yahweh your God blesses you.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?: Freewill offering (Deuteronomy 16:10).
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
• Note: No known place chosen by Yah to bring offerings at this time.

15. Keep the Feast of Booths (Sukkot)

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 16:13
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?: Offerings implied (Leviticus 23:36).
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
• Note: No known place chosen by Yah to bring offerings at this time.

16. Appear Before Yahweh Three Times a Year

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 16:16
• Scripture Text (WEB): “Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?: Offerings as per ability (Deuteronomy 16:17).
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
• Note: No known place chosen by Yah to bring offerings at this time.

17. Do Not Offer Blemished Sacrifices

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 17:1
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: Abomination, implying general curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
• Note: No known place chosen by Yah to bring offerings at this time.

18. Do Not Follow False Prophets

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 13:1-3
• Scripture Text (WEB): “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let’s go after other gods’ (which you have not known) ‘and let’s serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: False prophet to be put to death (Deuteronomy 13:5).
• Offering or Ransom?: Sins Requiring Death - No Offering
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
  • Sin Offering?: Emphasis on purification from defilement. Unintentional sins against the commandments of God which are not to be done. Primarily those that defile the sinner or the sanctuary requiring purification.

19. Put to Death Those Who Entice to Idolatry

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 13:6-9
• Scripture Text (WEB): “If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let’s go and serve other gods’—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth—you shall not consent to him nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him; but you shall surely kill him.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: Death by stoning (Deuteronomy 13:10).
• Offering or Ransom?:Sins Requiring Death - No Offering

20. Destroy a City That Turns to Idolatry

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 13:12-15
• Scripture Text (WEB): “If you hear about one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, that certain wicked men have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let’s go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, then you shall inquire, investigate, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done among you, you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, with all that is in it and its livestock, with the edge of the sword.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: Destruction of the city (Deuteronomy 13:15).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?

21. Appoint Judges and Officers

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 16:18
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses for injustice (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?

22. Do Not Pervert Justice

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 16:19
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?.
  • Guilt Offering?: Emphasis on restitution or resolving guilt. 1) Unintentional violations of holy/set apart things 2) Unintentional sins against specific commandments of God which are not to be done. 3) Intentional sins involving deceit.

23. Do Not Set Up an Asherah or Pillar

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 16:21-22
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for yourselves. Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred pillar, which Yahweh your God hates.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: Abomination, implying general curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
• Note: Seems pretty difficult to plant something and not know it.

24. Execute a Rebellious Son

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 21:18-21
• Scripture Text (WEB): “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place. They shall tell the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’ All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: Death by stoning (Deuteronomy 21:21).
• Offering or Ransom?: Sins Requiring Death - No Offering
• Note: No set elders at the city gates?

25. Do Not Leave a Hanged Person on the Tree Overnight

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 21:22-23
• Scripture Text (WEB): “If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: Defiling the land (Deuteronomy 21:23).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
  • Sin Offering?: Emphasis on purification from defilement. Unintentional sins against the commandments of God which are not to be done. Primarily those that defile the sinner or the sanctuary requiring purification.

26. Return Lost Property

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 22:1-3
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother. If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother looks for it, and you shall restore it to him. So you shall do with his donkey, and so you shall do with his garment, and so you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found. You may not hide yourself.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
  • Guilt Offering?: Emphasis on restitution or resolving guilt. 1) Unintentional violations of holy/set apart things 2) Unintentional sins against specific commandments of God which are not to be done. 3) Intentional sins involving deceit.

27. Help with a Neighbor’s Burdened Animal

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 22:4
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
  • Guilt Offering?: Emphasis on restitution or resolving guilt. 1) Unintentional violations of holy/set apart things 2) Unintentional sins against specific commandments of God which are not to be done. 3) Intentional sins involving deceit.

28. Do Not Wear Mixed Garments

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 22:5
• Scripture Text (WEB): “A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: Abomination, implying general curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
  • Sin Offering?: Emphasis on purification from defilement. Unintentional sins against the commandments of God which are not to be done. Primarily those that defile the sinner or the sanctuary requiring purification.

29. Do Not Mix Different Seeds

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 22:9
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: Defilement of the crop (Deuteronomy 22:9).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
  • Sin Offering?: Emphasis on purification from defilement. Unintentional sins against the commandments of God which are not to be done. Primarily those that defile the sinner or the sanctuary requiring purification.

30. Do Not Plow with Ox and Donkey Together

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 22:10
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
    Note: Seems difficult to do this unintentionally.

31. Wear Tassels (Tzitzit) on Garments

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 22:12
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall make yourselves fringes (tzitzit) on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?

32. Laws Concerning Virginity and Marriage

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 22:13-21
• Scripture Text (WEB): “If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her, and accuses her of shameful things, saying, ‘I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity,’ then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate… If this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity weren’t found in the young lady, then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: False accusation: man fined 100 shekels, cannot divorce (Deuteronomy 22:19). Non-virgin: death by stoning (Deuteronomy 22:21).
• Offering or Ransom?: Fine of 100 shekels for false accusation (Deuteronomy 22:19).
  • Sins Requiring Death - No Offering
• Note: No set elders at the city gates?

33. Do Not Commit Adultery

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 22:22
• Scripture Text (WEB): “If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: Death for both (Deuteronomy 22:22).
• Offering or Ransom?: Sins Requiring Death - No Offering

34. Laws Concerning Rape

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 22:25-29
• Scripture Text (WEB): “But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die… If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lays hold of her, and lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: Betrothed woman: man dies (Deuteronomy 22:25). Non-betrothed: fine of 50 shekels, mandatory marriage (Deuteronomy 22:29).
• Offering or Ransom?: Fine of 50 shekels for non-betrothed (Deuteronomy 22:29).
  • Sins Requiring Death - No Offering

35. Do Not Marry Your Father’s Wife

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 22:30
• Scripture Text (WEB): “A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
    Note: Seems difficult to do unintentionally.

36. Leave Gleanings for the Poor

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 24:19-21
• Scripture Text (WEB): “When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.”
• Blessing: Blessing in all the work of your hands (Deuteronomy 24:19).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
  • Guilt Offering?: Emphasis on restitution or resolving guilt. 1) Unintentional violations of holy/set apart things 2) Unintentional sins against specific commandments of God which are not to be done. 3) Intentional sins involving deceit.

37. Do Not Take a Widow’s Garment as a Pledge

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 24:17
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall not pervert the justice due to the foreigner or to the fatherless, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
  • Guilt Offering?: Emphasis on restitution or resolving guilt. 1) Unintentional violations of holy/set apart things 2) Unintentional sins against specific commandments of God which are not to be done. 3) Intentional sins involving deceit.

38. Do Not Muzzle an Ox While It Treads Grain

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 25:4
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
    Note: Seems difficult to do intentionally.

39. Perform Levirate Marriage

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 25:5-6
• Scripture Text (WEB): “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: Public shaming if refused (Deuteronomy 25:7-10).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?

40. Do Not Use Dishonest Weights and Measures

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 25:13-15
• Scripture Text (WEB): “You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small. You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small. You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.”
• Blessing: Long life in the land (Deuteronomy 25:15).
• Penalty or Consequence: Abomination, implying general curses (Deuteronomy 25:16; 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
  • Guilt Offering?: Emphasis on restitution or resolving guilt. 1) Unintentional violations of holy/set apart things 2) Unintentional sins against specific commandments of God which are not to be done. 3) Intentional sins involving deceit..

41. Remember to Blot Out Amalek

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 25:17-19
• Scripture Text (WEB): “Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt, how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God. Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?: None specified.

42. Bring Firstfruits and Declare Them

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 26:1-2, 12-15
• Scripture Text (WEB): “It shall be, when you have come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it, that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there… When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: General curses (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?: Firstfruits offering and tithes (Deuteronomy 26:2, 12).

43. Obey All God’s Commandments

• Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 27:1
• Scripture Text (WEB): “Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, ‘Keep all the commandment which I command you today.’”
• Blessing: General blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
• Penalty or Consequence: Specific curses for disobedience (Deuteronomy 27:15-26; 28:15-68).
• Offering or Ransom?:
  • Commands which are to be done and are not does not fit into any offering's definition? Intentionally not doing or doing something which is a do not, does not fit into any offerings definition?
  • Sin Offering?: Emphasis on purification from defilement. Unintentional sins against the commandments of God which are not to be done. Primarily those that defile the sinner or the sanctuary requiring purification.
  • Guilt Offering?: Emphasis on restitution or resolving guilt. 1) Unintentional violations of holy/set apart things 2) Unintentional sins against specific commandments of God which are not to be done. 3) Intentional sins involving deceit.