Commandments
According to Sefer ha-Chinuch, there are 9 positive and 11 negative commandments in the parshah:
- Courts must calculate to determine when a new month begins.
- To slaughter the Passover lamb at the specified time
- To eat the Passover lamb with matzah and maror on the night of the fourteenth of Nisan
- Not to eat the Passover meat raw or boiled
- Not to leave any meat from the Passover lamb over until morning
- To destroy all leavened bread on the fourteenth of Nisan
- To eat matzah on the first night of Passover
- Not to find chametz in your domain seven days
- Not to eat mixtures containing chametz all seven days of Passover
- An apostate must not eat from the Passover lamb.
- A permanent or temporary hired worker must not eat from it.
- Not to take the paschal meat from the confines of the group
- Not to break any bones of the Passover lamb
- An uncircumcised male must not eat from it.
- To set aside the firstborn animals
- Not to eat chametz all seven days of Passover
- Not to see chametz in your domain seven days
- To relate the Exodus from Egypt on the first night of Passover
- To redeem the firstborn donkey by giving a lamb to a Kohen
- To break the neck of the donkey if the owner does not intend to redeem it
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