Ki Teitzei - Commandments

Commandments

According to Sefer ha-Chinuch, there are 27 positive and 47 negative commandments in the parshah.

• To keep the laws of the captive woman
• Not to sell the captive woman into slavery
• Not to retain the captive woman for servitude after having relations with her
• The courts must hang those stoned for blasphemy or idolatry.
• To bury the executed on the day that they die
• Not to delay burial overnight
• To return a lost object to its owner
• Not to turn a blind eye to a lost object
• Not to leave another’s beast lying under its burden
• To lift up a load for a Jew
• Women must not wear men's clothing.
• Men must not wear women's clothing.
• Not to take the mother bird from her children
• To release the mother bird if she was taken from the nest
• To build a parapet
• Not to leave a stumbling block about
• Not to plant grains or greens in a vineyard
• Not to eat diverse seeds planted in a vineyard
• Not to do work with two kinds of animals together
• Not to wear cloth of wool and linen
• To marry a wife by means of ketubah and kiddushin
• The slanderer must remain married to his wife.
• The slanderer must not divorce his wife.
• The court must have anyone who merits stoning stoned to death.
• Not to punish anyone compelled to commit a transgression
• The rapist must marry his victim if she chooses.
• The rapist is not allowed to divorce his victim.
• Not to let a eunuch marry into the Jewish people
• Not to let the child of a prohibited union (מַמְזֵר, mamzer) marry into the Jewish people
• Not to let Moabite and Ammonite men marry into the Jewish people
• Not to ever offer peace to Moab or Ammon
• Not to exclude a third generation Edomite convert from marrying into the Jewish people
• To exclude Egyptian converts from marrying into the Jewish people only for the first two generations
• A ritually unclean person should not enter the camp of the Levites.
• To prepare a place of easement in a camp
• To prepare a boring-stick or spade for easement in a camp
• Not to return a slave who fled into Israel from his master abroad
• Not to oppress a slave who fled into Israel from his master abroad
• Not to have relations with women not married by means of ketubah and kiddushin
• Not to bring the wage of a harlot or the exchange price of a dog as a holy offering
• Not to borrow at interest from a Jew
• To lend at interest to a non-Jew if the non-Jew needs a loan, but not to a Jew
• Not to be tardy with vowed and voluntary offerings
• To fulfill whatever goes out from one’s mouth
• To allow a hired worker to eat certain foods while under hire
• That a hired hand should not raise a sickle to another’s standing grain
• That a hired hand is forbidden to eat from the employer’s crops during work
• To issue a divorce by means of a get document
• A man must not remarry his ex-wife after she has married someone else.
• Not to demand from the bridegroom any involvement, communal or military during the first year
• To give him who has taken a wife, built a new home, or planted a vineyard a year to rejoice therewith
• Not to demand as collateral utensils needed for preparing food
• The metzora must not remove his signs of impurity.
• The creditor must not forcibly take collateral.
• Not to delay return of collateral when needed
• To return the collateral to the debtor when needed
• To pay wages on the day that they were earned
• Relatives of the litigants must not testify.
• A judge must not pervert a case involving a convert or orphan.
• Not to demand collateral from a widow
• To leave the forgotten sheaves in the field
• Not to retrieve the forgotten sheaves
• The precept of whiplashes for the wicked
• The court must not exceed the prescribed number of lashes.
• Not to muzzle an ox while plowing
• The widow must not remarry until the ties with her brother-in-law are removed.
• To marry a childless brother's widow (to do yibum)
• To free a widow from yibum (to do חליצה, chalitzah)
• To save someone being pursued by a killer, even by taking the life of the pursuer
• To have no mercy on a pursuer with intent to kill
• Not to possess inaccurate scales and weights even if they are not for use
• To remember what Amalek did to the Jewish people
• To wipe out the descendants of Amalek
• Not to forget Amalek’s atrocities and ambush on the Israelites’ journey from Egypt in the desert