Acharei - Commandments

Commandments

According to Sefer ha-Chinuch, there are 2 positive and 26 negative commandments in the parshah:

A Kohen must not enter the Temple in Jerusalem indiscriminately. (Leviticus 16:2.)
To follow the procedure of Yom Kippur (Leviticus 16:3.)
Not to slaughter sacrifices outside the courtyard (Leviticus 17:4.)
To cover the blood of a slaughtered beast or fowl with earth (Leviticus 17:13.)
Not to make pleasurable sexual contact with any forbidden woman (Leviticus 18:6.)
Not to have homosexual sexual relations with one’s father (Leviticus 18:7.)
Not to have sexual relations with one’s mother (Leviticus 18:7.)
Not to have sexual relations with one’s father's wife (Leviticus 18:8.)
Not to have sexual relations with one’s sister (Leviticus 18:9.)
Not to have sexual relations with one’s son's daughter (Leviticus 18:10.)
Not to have sexual relations with one’s daughter's daughter (Leviticus 18:10.)
Not to have sexual relations with one’s daughter (Leviticus 18:10.)
Not to have sexual relations with one’s father's wife's daughter (Leviticus 18:11.)
Not to have sexual relations with one’s father's sister (Leviticus 18:12.)
Not to have sexual relations with one’s mother's sister (Leviticus 18:13.)
Not to have homosexual sexual relations with one’s father's brother (Leviticus 18:14.)
Not to have sexual relations with one’s father's brother's wife (Leviticus 18:14.)
Not to have sexual relations with one’s son's wife (Leviticus 18:15.)
Not to have sexual relations with one’s brother's wife (Leviticus 18:16.)
Not to have sexual relations with a woman and her daughter (Leviticus 18:17.)
Not to have sexual relations with a woman and her son's daughter (Leviticus 18:17.)
Not to have sexual relations with a woman and her daughter's daughter (Leviticus 18:17.)
Not to have sexual relations with one’s wife's sister while both are alive (Leviticus 18:18.)
Not to have sexual relations with a menstrually impure woman (Leviticus 18:19.)
Not to pass one’s children through the fire to Molech (Leviticus 18:21.)
Not to have male homosexual sexual relations (Leviticus 18:22.)
A man must not have sexual relations with a beast. (Leviticus 18:23.)
A woman must not have sexual relations with a beast. (Leviticus 18:23.)

(Sefer HaHinnuch: The Book of Education. Translated by Charles Wengrov, 2:275–377. Jerusalem: Feldheim Pub., 1984. ISBN 0-87306-296-5.)

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