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THE 365 NEGATIVE COMMANDMENTS AS STIPULATED BY
THE RAMBAM
Mitzvah
1 Believing in or ascribing any deity
to any but Him
2 Making images for the purpose of worship
3 Making an idol (even for others) to worship
4 Making figures of human beings
5 Bowing down to an idol
6 Worshipping idols
7 Handing over some of our offspring
to Molech
8 Practicing the sorcery of the ove
9 Practicing the sorcery of the yidde'oni
10 Studying idolatrous practices
11 Erecting a pillar which people will
assemble to honor
12 Making figured stones upon which to
prostrate ourselves
13 Planting trees in the Sanctuary
14 Swearing by an idol
15 Diverting people to idolatry
16 Seeking to persuade an Israelite to
worship idols
17 Loving the person who seeks to
mislead him into idolatry
18 Relaxing one's aversion to the
misleader
19 Saving the life of the misleader
20 Pleading for the misleader
21 Oppressing evidence which is
unfavorable to the misleader
22 Benefiting from ornaments which
have adorned an idol
23 Rebuilding an apostate city
24 Deriving benefit from the property of
an apostate city
25 Increasing our wealth from anything
connected with idolatry
26 Prophesying in the name of an idol
27 Prophesying falsely
28 Listening to the prophecy of one who
prophesies in the name of an idol
29 Refraining from a killing, or being
afraid of, a false prophet
30 Adopting the habits and customs of unbelievers
31 Practicing divination
32 Regulating our conduct by the stars
33 Practicing the art of the soothsayer
34 Practicing sorcery
35 Practicing the art of the charmer
36 Consulting a necromancer who uses
the ove
37 Consulting a sorcerer who uses the
yido'a
38 Seeking information from the dead
39 Women wearing men's clothes or adornments
40 Men wearing women's clothes or adornments
41 Imprinting any marks upon our bodies
42 Wearing Shatnes (a garment of
wool and linen)
43 Shaving the temples of the head
44 Shaving the beard
45 Making cuttings in our flesh
46 Settling in the land of Egypt
47 Following one's heart and eyes
48 Making a covenant with the Seven
Nations of Canaan
49 Sparing a life of the Seven Nations
50 Showing mercy to idolaters
51 Allowing idolaters to settle in our land
52 Intermarrying with heretics
53 Intermarrying with a male Ammonite
and Moabite
54 Excluding descendants of Esav
55 Excluding descendants of Egyptians
56 Offering peace to Ammon and Moav
57 Destroying fruit-trees during a siege
58 Fearing the heretics in time of war
59 Forgetting what Amalek did to us
60 Blaspheming the Great Name
61 Violating a shevuas bittui (oath
of utterance)
62 Swearing a shevuas shav (vain oath)
63 Profaning the Name of G-d
64 Testing His promises and warnings
65 Breaking down houses of worship
or destroying holy books
66 Leaving the body of a criminal
hanging overnight after execution
67 Interrupting the watch over the
Sanctuary
68 The High Priest entering the Sanctuary
at any but the prescribed time
69 A Priest with a blemish entering the
Sanctuary from the Altar inwards
70 A Priest with a blemish ministering in
the Sanctuary
71 A Priest with a temporary blemish
ministering in the Sanctuary
72 The Levites and Priests performing
each other's allotted services
73 Entering the Sanctuary or giving a decision
on Torah law while intoxicated
74 A zar (stranger) ministering in the Sanctuary
75 An unclean Priest ministering in the Sanctuary
76 A Priest who is a tevul yom
ministering in the Sanctuary
77 Any unclean person entering any
part of the Sanctuary
78 Any unclean person entering the
camp of the Levites
79 Building an Altar of stones which
have been touched by iron
80 Ascending the Altar by steps
81 Extinguishing the Altar Fire
82 Offering any sacrifice whatever on
the Golden Altar
83 Making oil like the Oil of Anointment
84 Anointing any one except the High
Priests and Kings with the Oil of Anointment
prepared by Moshe
85 Making incense like that used in the Sanctuary
86 Removing the staves from their rings
in the Ark
87 Removing the Breastplate from the
Ephod
88 Tearing the edge of the High Priest's robe
89 Offering sacrifices outside the Sanctuary Court
90 Slaughtering holy offerings outside the
Sanctuary Court
91 Dedicating blemished animals to be offered
upon the Altar
92 Slaughtering blemished animals as a korban
93 Dashing the blood of blemished beasts
upon the Altar
94 Burning the sacrificial portions of
a blemished beast upon the Altar
95 Sacrificing a beast with a temporary blemish
96 Offering blemished sacrifices of a gentile
97 Causing an offering to become blemished
98 Offering leaven or honey upon the Altar
99 Offering a sacrifice without salt
100 Offering on the Altar the "hire of a harlot"
or the "price of a dog"
101 Slaughtering the mother and her
young on the same day
102 Putting olive oil on the meal-offering
of a sinner
103 Putting frankincense with the meal-offering
of a sinner
104 Mingling olive oil with the meal-
offering of a suspected adulteress
105 Putting frankincense on the meal-
offering of a suspected adulteress
106 Changing a beast that has been consecrated
as a offering
107 Changing one holy offering for another
108 Redeeming the firstling of a clean beast
109 Selling the tithe of cattle
110 Selling devoted property
111 Redeeming devoted land without any
specific statement of purpose
112 Severing the head of the bird of a
Sin-offering during melikah
113 Doing any work with a dedicated beast
114 Shearing a dedicated beast
115 Slaughtering the Pesach offering while
Chometz remains in our possession
116 Leaving the sacrificial portions of the
Pesach offering overnight
117 Allowing any of the meat of the Pesach
offering to remain until morning
118 Allowing any of the meat of the Festival
offering of the fourteenth of Nissan to
remain until the third day
119 Allowing any of the meat of the
Pesach Sheni offering to remain until morning
120 Allowing any of the meat of the thank-offering
to remain until morning
121 Breaking any of the bones of the Pesach offering
122 Breaking any of the bones of the
Pesach Sheni offering
123 Removing the Pesach offering from
where it is eaten
124 Baking the residue of a meal-offering
with leaven
125 Eating the Pesach offering boiled
or raw
126 Allowing a ger toshav to eat the
Pesach offering
127 An uncircumcised person eating the Pesach
offering
128 Allowing an apostate Israelite to eat
the Pesach offering
129 An unclean person eating hallowed
food
130 Eating meat of consecrated offerings which
have become unclean
131 Eating nosar (beyond allotted time)
132 Eating piggul (improper intentions)
133 A zar eating terumah
134 A Priest's tenant or hired servant
eating terumah
135 An uncircumcised Priest eating
terumah
136 An unclean Priest eating terumah
137 A chalalah eating holy food
138 Eating the meal-offering of a Priest
139 Eating meat of Sin-offerings whose
blood has been brought within the
Sanctuary
140 Eating the invalidated consecrated offerings
141 Eating the unredeemed second
tithe of corn outside Yerushalayim
142 Consuming the unredeemed second tithe of
wine outside Yerushalayim
143 Consuming the unredeemed second
tithe of oil outside Yerushalayim
144 Eating an unblemished firstling
outside Yerushalayim
145 Eating the sin-offering and the guilt-offering
outside the Sanctuary Court
146 Eating the meat of a burnt-offering
147 Eating lesser holy offerings before
dashing their blood on the Altar
148 A zar eating the most holy offerings
149 A Priest eating first-fruits outside
Yerushalayim
150 Eating an unredeemed unclean
second tithe, even in Yerushalayim
151 Eating the second tithe during
mourning
152 Spending the redemption money of the
second tithe except on food and drink
153 Eating tevel (produce from which the
heave-offering and tithes were not taken)
154 Altering the prescribed order of harvest
tithing
155 Delaying payment of vows
156 Appearing in Sanctuary on a festival without
a sacrifice
157 Infringing any oral obligation, even
if undertaken without an oath
158 A Priest marrying a zonah
159 A Priest marrying a chalalah
160 A Priest marrying a divorced woman
161 A High Priest marrying a widow
162 A High Priest having intercourse
with a widow
163 Priests with disheveled hair entering
the Sanctuary
164 Priests wearing rent garments
entering the Sanctuary
165 Ministering Priests leaving the Sanctuary
166 A common priest defiling himself for
any dead person except those prescribed
in Scripture
167 A High Priest being under one roof
with a dead body
168 A High Priest defiling himself for any
dead person
169 Levites taking a portion in the Land
170 Levites sharing in the spoil on the conquest
of the Land
171 Tearing out our hair for the dead
172 Eating any unclean animal
173 Eating any unclean fish
174 Eating any unclean fowl
175 Eating any swarming winged insect
176 Eating anything which swarms upon the earth
177 Eating any creeping thing that breeds
in decayed matter
178 Eating living creatures that breed in
seeds or fruit
179 Eating any swarming thing
180 Eating an animal which is a nevelah
181 Eating an animal which is a terefah
182 Eating a limb of a living creature
183 Eating the gid hanasheh (sinew of thigh-vein
184 Eating blood
185 Eating the fat of a clean animal
186 Cooking meat in milk
187 Eating meat cooked in milk
188 Eating the flesh of a stoned ox
189 Eating bread made from the grain of
the new crop
190 Eating roasted grain of the new crop
191 Eating fresh ears of grain
192 Eating orlah
193 Eating kilai hakerem
194 Drinking yain nesech (libation-wine
used for idol worship)
195 Excessive eating and drinking
196 Eating on Yom Kippur
197 Eating chometz during Pesach
198 Eating an admixture of chometz during Pesach
199 Eating chametz after the middle of the
fourteenth of Nissan
200 Chametz being seen in our habitations during
Pesach
201 Possessing chametz during Pesach
202 A Nazir drinking wine
203 A Nazir eating fresh grapes
204 A Nazir eating dried grapes
205 A Nazir eating the kernels of grapes
206 A Nazir eating the husks of grapes
207 A Nazir rending himself unclean for the dead
208 A Nazir rending himself unclean by entering
a house containing a corpse
209 A Nazir shaving
210 Reaping all the harvest without leaving
a corner for the poor
211 Gathering ears of corn that fell during
the harvest
212 Gathering the whole produce of the vineyard
at vintage time
213 Gathering single fallen grapes during
the vintage
214 Returning for a forgotten sheaf
215 Sowing kilayim (diverse kinds of
seed in one field)
216 Sowing grain or vegetables in a vineyard
217 Making animals of different species
218 Working with two different kinds of
animals together
219 Preventing a beast from eating of the produce
amidst which it is working
220 Cultivating the soil in the seventh year
221 Pruning trees in the seventh year
222 Reaping a self-grown plant in the
seventh year as in an ordinary year
223 Gathering a self-grown fruit in the seventh
year as in an ordinary year
224 Cultivating the soil in the Jubilee year
225 Reaping the aftergrowths of the
Jubilee year as in an ordinary year
226 Gathering fruit in the Jubilee year
as in an ordinary year
227 Selling our holdings in Eretz Yisrael
in perpetuity
228 Selling the open lands of the Levites
229 Forsaking the Levites
230 Demanding the payment of debts after
the Sabbatical year
231 Withholding a loan to be canceled
by the Sabbatical year
232 Failing to give charity to our needy brethren
233 Sending away a Hebrew bondman empty-handed
234 Demanding payment from a debtor known to be
unable to pay
235 Lending at interest
236 Borrowing at interest
237 Participating in a loan at interest
238 Oppressing an employee by delaying payment
of his wages
239 Taking a pledge from a debtor by force
240 Keeping a needed pledge from its owner
241 Taking a pledge from a widow
242 Taking in pledge food utensils
243 Abducting an Israelite
244 Stealing money
245 Committing robbery
246 Fraudulently altering land boundaries
247 Usurping our debts
248 Repudiating our debts
249 Swearing falsely in repudiating a debt
250 Wronging one another in business
251 Wronging one another by speech
252 Wronging a proselyte by speech
253 Wronging a proselyte in business
254 Handing over a fugitive bondman
255 Wronging a fugitive bondman
256 Dealing harshly with orphans and widows
257 Employing a Hebrew bondman in degrading tasks
258 Selling a Hebrew bondman by public auction
259 Having a Hebrew bondman do unnecessary work
260 Allowing the maltreatment of a Hebrew
bondman by a heathen
261 Selling a Hebrew bondmaid
262 Afflicting one's espoused Hebrew bondmaid
by diminishing food, raiment or conjugal
rights; similar law applies to one's wife
263 Selling a captive woman
264 Enslaving a captive woman
265 Planning to acquire another's property
266 Coveting another's belongings
267 A hired laborer eating growing crops
268 A hired laborer putting of the harvest
in his own vessel
269 Ignoring lost property
270 Leaving a trapped person without assisting
him with his burden
271 Cheating in measurements and weights
272 Keeping false weights and measures
273 A judge committing unrighteousness
274 A judge accepting gifts from litigants
275 A judge favoring a litigant
276 A judge being deterred by fear of a
wicked person from giving a just judgment
277 A judge deciding in favor of a poor man
through pity
278 A judge perverting judgment against
a person of evil repute
279 A judge pitying one who has slain a
man or caused the loss of a limb
280 A judge perverting the justice due to
proselytes or orphans
281 A judge listening to one of the
litigants in the absence of another
282 A court convicting in a capital case
by a majority of one
283 A judge relying on the opinion of
a fellow judge; arguing for conviction
after favoring acquittal
284 Appointing an unlearned judge
285 Bearing false witness
286 A judge receiving a wicked man's testimony
287 A judge receiving testimony from a
litigant's relative
288 Convicting on the testimony of a single
witness
289 Killing a human being
290 Capital punishment based on circumstantial
evidence
291 A witness acting as an advocate
292 Killing a murderer without a trial
293 Sparing the life of a pursuer
294 Punishing a person for a sin committed under
duress
295 Accepting ransom from one who has committed
murder unwittingly
296 Accepting ransom from one who has committed
willful murder
297 Neglecting to save an Israelite in
danger of his life
298 Leaving obstacles on public or private domain
299 Giving misleading advice
300 Inflicting excessive corporal punishment
301 Bearing tales
302 Hating one another
303 Putting one to shame
304 Taking vengeance on one another
305 Bearing a grudge
306 Taking the entire bird's nest (mother
and young)
307 Shaving the scull
308 Cutting or cauterizing signs of leprosy
309 Ploughing a valley in which the rite of eglah
arufah has been performed
310 Permitting a sorcerer to live
311 Taking a bridegroom away from his
home during first year
312 Differing from traditional authorities
313 Adding to the Written or Oral Law
314 Detracting from the Written or Oral Law
315 Cursing a judge
316 Cursing a ruler
317 Cursing any Israelite
318 Cursing parents
319 Smiting parents
320 Working on Shabbos
321 Going beyond city limits on Shabbos
322 Punishing on Shabbos
323 Working on the first day of Pesach
324 Working on the seventh day of Pesach
325 Working on Atzeres
326 Working on Rosh HaShanah
327 Working on the first day of Sukkos
328 Working on Shemini Atzeres
329 Working on Yom Kippur
330 Having relations with one's mother
331 Having relations with one's father's wife
332 Having relations with one's sister
333 Having relations with the daughter of one's
father's wife if she be his sister
334 Having relations with one's son's daughter
335 Having relations with one's daughter's
daughter
336 Having relations with one's daughter
337 Having relations with a woman and her daughter
338 Having relations with a woman and her
son's daughter
339 Having relations with a woman and her
daughter's daughter
340 Having relations with one's father's sister
341 Having relations with one's mother's sister
342 Having relations with the wife of one's
father's brother
343 Having relations with one's son's wife
344 Having relations with a brother's wife
345 Having relations with a sister of his
wife during the latter's lifetime
346 Having relations with a menstruant
347 Having relations with another man's wife
348 Men lying with beasts
349 Women lying with beasts
350 A man lying carnally with a male
351 A man lying carnally with his father
352 A man lying carnally with his father's brother
353 Intimacy with a kinswoman
354 A mamzer having relations with a Jewish Woman
355 Having relations with a woman without marriage
356 Re-marrying one's divorced wife after she has
remarried
357 Having relations with a woman subject to
Levirate marriage
358 Divorcing a woman he has raped and been
compelled to marry
359 Divorcing a woman after having falsely brought
an evil name upon her
360 A man incapable of procreation marrying
a Jewish Woman
361 Castration of man or beast
362 Appointing a king not born an Israelite
363 A king owning many horses
364 A king taking many wives
365 A king amassing great personal wealth