Laws Jesus Kept

To really get to know God at an entirely new level, it is good to study these positive and negative commandments, and learn what the Rabbis teach about them. If Jesus came to your house today, this is what you should expect He would do.

The Jewish people are obligated to keep all commandments in the Torah. Non-Jewish people (Gentiles) are under a different jurisdiction. When God revealed Himself at Mt Sinai and established a new covenant with Moses and the children of Israel, He was strengthening the previous (old) covenant that was called the 7 Noahide Laws. These 7 laws were given to Noah when God made a covenant with him in Genesis 9. In the end, these 7 laws will be used to judge the entire world. Rabbis from before the time of Jesus have said, Gentiles that keep the 7 Noahide Laws are considered God Fearers.

Learn more about God’s Covenants by listening to this Podcast.

There are many scriptures that refer to God Fearers such as Psalm 115:9-13. The Apostles added 4 other commandments for Gentiles to follow in addition to these 7, and they are written in Acts 15. Here is a great 34 minute audio that explains more about these, and what is expected as a disciple of Jesus.

Below are some (not all) of the positive commandments that are in the Torah

The scriptures referenced below in the right side column are from the Tanakh which is a little different than Christian Bibles.

To believe that there is a God in existence	Exodus 20:2
To know the unity of the blessed God, to believe with complete faith that He is one, without any partner of associate	Deut 6:4
To love the blessed God with all one’s heart, spirit and might	Deut 6:5
To fear Hashem (means “The Name” in Hebrew)	Deut 6:13, 10:20
To sanctify Hashem openly	Lev 22:32
To walk in the ways of the blessed God with all ones ability	Deut 11:22
To pray every day to the blessed God	Deut 6:13, 11:13
T’fillin on one’s head/hand	Deut 6:8, 6:4-9, Deut 11
Tassels at the corners of their garments	Num 15:38
To recite the Sh’ma morning and evening	Deut 6:7, Num 15:37-41
To affix a m’zuzah at the entrance of the home	Deut 6:9
To say the blessing of the grace after meals, after eating bread	Deut 8:10
To learn Torah and to teach it	Deut 6:7
Everyone in Jewry should write a Torah scroll for himself	Deut 13:19
To be attached to Torah scholars and their disciples	Deut 10:20
To rise up before an aged man, and to honor a Torah scholar, getting up before him	Lev 19:32
To have reverent fear of the Sanctuary	Lev 19:30, 26:2
To declare the Sabbath holy, with words	Exodus 20:8
To rest from work on the Sabbath	Exodus 23:12
To be happy on the festivals	Exodus 16:14
To clear away hametz (leavened food) on the 14th of Nissan	Exodus 12:15
To eat matzah (unleavened bread) on the first night of Passover	Exodus 12:18
To tell about the exodus from Egypt on the night of the 14th of Nissan	Exodus 13:8
To rest from work on the first day of Passover	Num 23:7, Exodus 12:16
To count seven whole weeks from the day that the Omer was brought at the Sanctuary	Num 23:15
To rest from work on the seventh day of Passover	Num 23:8
To rest from work on the festival of Shavu’oth	Num 23:21
To rest from work on the first day of Tishri, which is Rosh HaShanah	Lev 23:24
To hear the sound of the shofar on the first of Tishri, which is Rosh HaShanah	Num 29:1
To rest from work on Yom Kippur	Lev 23:32
To fast on Yom Kippur	Lev 23:27
That a sinner should turn back from his sin, and should confess his misdeeds before the blessed God	Num 5:6-7
To rest from work on the first day of Sukkoth	Lev 23:35
To dwell in a sukkah all the seven days of the festival	Lev 23:42
To take up the four species on the festival of Sukkoth	Lev 23:40
To rest from work on the day of Sh’mini Atzereth (8th day)	Lev 23:36
To give charity to the poor in Jewry	Deut 15:8
To fulfill the words that come from one’s lips whatever he takes upon himself by a vow or an oath	Num 30:3
To deal with cases of nullifying vows and oaths	Num 30:3
To respect one’s father and mother	Exodus 20:12
To have a reverent fear of one’s father and mother	Lev 19:3
To marry a wife in order to be fruitful and multiply (have children)	Gen 1:28
To marry a wife by kiddushine (consecration, the ceremony of marriage)	Deut 24:1
To marry the wife of one’s brother who has died without children	Deut 25:5
That a yevamah (a childless widow) should remove the shoe of the yavam (her husband’s brother) if he does not want to take her in levirate marriage	Deut 25:7, 9
To circumcise every male at the age of eight days	Gen 17:12
To ritually slaughter a domestic or untamed animal, or fowl, if one wished to eat of their flesh	Deut 12:21
To cover the blood of the ritual slaughtering of pure kosher untamed animals or fowl	Lev 17:13
To accord honor to a Kohen	Lev 21:8
That whoever ritually slaughters a pure kosher animal is to give the Kohen the foreleg, cheeks, and maw	Deut 18:3
To give the Kohen the first of the wool	Deut 18:4
To hallow firstborn males, the open a womb	Exodus 13:2
That an Israelite is to redeem his son who is a firstborn to his Israelite mother	Num 18:15
To redeem a firstling male donkey for a lamb	Exodus 34:20
To break the neck of a firstling male donkey if it has not been redeemed	Exodus 34:20
To separate a dough-cake from a batch of dough and give it to the Kohen	Num 15:20
That the Kohanim are to bless the Jewish people	Num 6:23-26
That a Kohen is to defile himself for close kin (in attending to their burial)	Lev 21:2-3
To bear affection for everyone in Jewry as for oneself	Lev 19:18
To bear affection for a ger (stranger, convert, proselyte)	Deut 10:19
To lend money to the poor of Jewry	Exodus 22:24
To give a pledge (pawned) object back to its owner at the time that he needs it	Deut 24:13
To release (cancel) a loan in the year of sh’mittah (release)	Deut 15:2
That an owner should allow the laborer to eat of what he is working at, when it is something that grows from the ground	Deut 23:25
To give the wages of a hired man on the same day	Deut 24:15
To render judgment on matters of buying and selling	Lev 25:14
To return whatever one has taken in robbery	Lev 5:23
To return something list to a member of Jewry	Deut 22:1
To unload from the domestic animal of one’s fellowman that is lying under its burden	Exodus 23:5
To load with one’s fellow-man to set a burden on a domestic animal or on the person	Deut 22:4
To upbraid a sinner	Lev 19:17
To render judgment about heritages (inheritance of landed property)	Num 27:8
Of “sending away from the nest”	Deut 22:7
To make a parapet about ones roof, and to remove every stumbling block and possible cause of accident from ones house	Deut 22:8
To remember the action that Amalek took against us	Deut 25:17
To decimate the descendants or Amalek	Deut 25:`9

Below are some (not all) of the negative commandments that are prohibitions in the Torah

Not to eat the sinew of the thigh vein	Gen 32:33
That hametz (leavened foods) is not to be seen in the possession of a Jew during 7 days of Passover	Exodus 12:19
Not to eat hametz on Passover	Exodus 13:3
To eat no mixture with hametz on Passover	Exodus 12:20
To not work on the Sabbath	Exodus 20:10
Not to go out on the Sabbath beyond the Sabbath limit	Exodus 16:29
To entertain no thought that there is any other god except HaShem	Exodus 20:3
To make no idol to worship	Exodus 20:4
Not to make any idol to be worshipped by anyone	Exodus 20:5
Not to bow down and prostrate oneself to an idol	Exodus 20:5
Not to worship an idol in the way that is unusually venerated	Exodus 20:5
No to swear in the name of an idol	Exodus 23:13
Not to lead a town in Israel astray to worship in idolatry	Exodus 23:13
To eat or drink nothing from an offering to an idol	Exodus 34:12,15
Not to turn one’s attention to idolatry	Num 19:4
To have no benefit from any decoration of an idol or from its ornaments	Deut 7:25
To have no benefit from an idol, from its offering or its attendants, or anything done on its behalf	Deut 7:26
Not to intermarry with a non-Jewish person	Deut 7:3
To have no mercy on idol-worshippers	Deut 7:2
Not to follow the fixed customs of the heathen	Num 18:3
Not to pay heed to a person prophesying in the name of an idol	Deut 13:4
To entice no one in Jewry to worship an idol	Deut 13:7, 12
For the enticed person to bear no affection for the enticer	Deut 13:8-9
For the enticed person not to relinquish his hatred for the enticer	Deut 13:8-9
Not to rescue the enticer if one sees him in danger of death	Deut 13:8-9
Not to prophesy in the name of an idol	Exodus 23:13
To make no gashes and incisions in one’s flesh in idol-worship or over ones dead kin	Deut 14:1
Not to swear in vain	Exodus 20:7
Not to swear falsely over the denial of a monetary matter	Lev 19:11
Not to swear an oath of expression over a falsehood	Lev 19:12
To kill no living human being	Exodus 20:13
To kidnap no living person	Exodus 20:13
To steal no object or item whatever of monetary value	Lev 19:11
Not to take anything in robbery from one’s fellow-man by main force	Lev 19:13
Not to deny falsely anything of value owed	Lev 19:11
Not to wrongfully retain anything belonging to ones fellow man	Lev 19:13
Not to delay the payment of a hired mans wages	Lev 19:13
To give no false testimony	Exodus 20:13
Not to covet anything belonging to ones fellow-man	Exodus 20:14
Not to crave in one’s heart something that belongs to his fellow-man	Exodus 20:14
Not to withhold conjugal intimacy, food, or cloths from ones wife	Exodus 21:10
To strike no person whatever	Deut 25:3
Not to strike ones father or mother	Exodus 21:15
To curse no decent person	Lev 19:14
Not to curse ones father or mother	Exodus 20:17
Not to cheat one another in buying or selling	Lev 25:14
Not to oppress ones fellow name with words	Lev 25:17
Not to oppress a righteous proselyte with words	Exodus 22:20
Not to wrong a righteous proselyte in matters of monetary value	Exodus 22:20
Not to inflict suffering on any widow or orphan	Exodus 22:21
Not to demand of a borrower to pay his debt when one knows that he as not the means to pay	Exodus 22:24
To have no part in dealings between a lender and a borrower at interest	Exodus 22:24
To lend nothing to a member of Jewry at interest, be it money or something to eat or anything else	Lev 25:37
Not to borrow at interest from a member of Jewry	Deut 23:20
Not to refrain from lending money to a member of Jewry for fear of the year of sh’mittah (release)	Deut 15:9
Not to demand payment of a loan over which the seventh year has passed	Deut 15:2
Not to take in pledge (pawn) any utensils with which sustaining food is made	Deut 24:6
Not to take in pledge (pawn) by main force from a debtor	Deut 24:10
Not to take in pledge (pawn) the garment of a widow	Deut 24:17
Not to withhold from its owner an object taken in pledge at the time that he needs it	Deut 24:12
Not to harden ones heart and not to shut ones hand toward a poor man	Deut 15:7
Not to curse a judge	Exodus 22:27
Not to appoint a judge who is unsuitable	Deut 1:17
For a judge not to hear the argument of one party to a lawsuit when the other party is not there	Exodus 23:1
Not to have pity on a poor man in a court trial	Exodus 23:3, Lev 19:15
For a judge not to pervert justice for a sinner on account of his wickedness	Exodus 23:6
For a judge not to pervert justice for a proselyte or an orphan	Deut 24:17
To commit no injustice in rendering judgment	Lev 19:15
To show no honor to an eminent man in a court judgment	Lev 19:15
For a judge to accept no bride	Exodus 23:8
That the judge should have no fear of a party to a lawsuit	Deut 1:17
To establish nothing as certain by the word of one witness	Deut 19:15
For the court not to accept the testimony of a close relative	Deut 24:16
For the court not to accept the testimony of a man of sin	Exodus 23:1
Not to cause ones fellow man to stumble over anything	Lev 19:14
Not to tell anyone things that another person said against him	Lev 19:16
Not to hate in ones heart any decent person	Lev 19:17
Not to shame ones fellow man	Lev 19:17
Not to take revenge from ones fellow man	Lev 19:18
To harbor no hatred in one heart toward our fellow man	Lev 19:18
Not to refrain from rescuing ones fellow man from danger	Lev 19:16
To do no wrong with any measures or weights	Lev 19:35
Not to retain in ones possession any short defective measure or weight	Deut 25:13-14
Not to encroach beyond a neighbor’s boundary specifically in the Land of Israel	Deut 19:14
To eat no n’velah (dies of itself – anything that was not killed in a kosher way)	Deut 14:21
To eat no t’refah (torn of beasts)	Deut 22:30
To eat no forbidden fat (ox or sheep or goat)	Lev 7:23
To eat no blood at all	Lev 7:26
To eat no limb or part of a living creature	Deut 12:23
To cook no meat in milk	Exodus 23:19
To eat no meat that was cooked with milk	Exodus 34:26
To eat no meat from non-kosher domestic or untamed animals	Lev 11:4
Not to eat non-kosher fowl	Lev 11:13
Not to eat non-kosher fish	Lev 11:11
To eat no winged swarming creature	Deut 14:19
To eat no swarming creature of the ground	Lev 11:41
To eat no worms of fruits or seeds	Lev 11:42
To eat no swarming creature of the water	Lev 11:43
To eat no remmess (creeping thing)	Lev 11:44
To eat no bread from the new crop of grain before the Omer offering [was brought at the Sanctuary]	Lev 23:14
To eat no kali (which means grains of the five species that were roasted in the fire) from new grain, before the Omer offering	Lev 23:14
To eat no karmel (meaning that it was crushed by hand and not roasted in the fire) from new grain before the Omer offering	Lev 23:14
To eat no hametz (leavened food) on the day before Passover, after noon	Deut 16:3
To eat no fruit of a tree in the first three years since its planting	Lev 19:23
Not to eat the kind of food eaten by a wayward and rebellious son	Lev 19:26
Not to sow two kinds of seeds in a field	Lev19:19
Not to slay ritually both a pure [kosher] animal and its young in one day	Lev 22:28
Not to redeem the firstling of a pure [kosher] animal	Num 18:17
Not to be in close contact with consanguineous relationship, even without conjugal intimacy	Lev 18:6
Not to uncover the nakedness of ones father in homosexual intimacy	Lev 18:7
Not to be conjugally intimate with ones mother	Lev 18:7
Not to be conjugally intimate with the wife of ones father	Lev 18:8
Not to be carnally intimate with ones father brother on homosexuality	Lev 18:14
Not to be conjugally intimate with ones daughter in law, which means his sons wife	Lev 18:15
To have no carnal intimacy with a male	Lev 18:22
To have no carnal intimacy with an animal in a male active role, or in a female, receptive role	Lev 18:23
That a woman should not have an animal be carnally intimate with her, whether in natural unnatural intimacy	Lev 18:10
Not to be conjugally intimate with the daughter of one son, not to be conjugally intimate with the daughter of ones daughter	Lev 18:17
Not to be conjugally intimate with one daughter	Lev 18:17
Not to be conjugally intimate with a woman and her daughter	Lev 18:17
Not to be conjugally intimate with a woman and her sons daughter	Lev 18:17
Not to be conjugally intimate with a woman and her daughter’s daughter	Lev 18:17
Not to be conjugally intimate with a married woman	Exodus 18:20
Not to be conjugally intimate with ones aunt, which means the wife of ones fathers brother	Lev 18:14
Not to be conjugally intimate with the wife of ones brother, whether from the same father or the same mother, and even a brother through a parents immoral relations	Lev 18:16, Deut 25:9
Not to be conjugally intimate with ones sister, whether from the same father or the same mother, and even a brother through a parents immoral relations	Lev 18:19
Not to be conjugally intimate with ones sister who is his father’s wife daughter	Lev 18:11
Not to be conjugally intimate with ones fathers sister	Lev 18:12
Not to be conjugally intimate with ones mothers sister	Lev 18:12
Not to be conjugally intimate with the sister of ones wife during his wife’s lifetime	Lev 18:18
Not to be conjugally intimate with a woman ritually unclean from the menses	Lev 18:19
Not to be conjugally intimate with a k’deshah without the marriage ceremony of consecration	Deut 23:18
Not to take back ones divorced wife once she has been married to another man	Deut 24:4
That the wife of a dead man without children is not to marry an outsider [someone other than the mans brother]	Deut 25:5
That no man with crushed testes or severed membrum is to marry a daughter of a Jew	Deut 23:20
That a mamzer (bastard) is not to marry a daughter of a Jew	Deut 23:3
That a Kohen is not to marry a zonah (non Jew or has been intimate with someone she was forbidden to marry)	Lev21:7
That a Kohen should not marry a profaned woman	Lev 21:7
That a Kohen is not to marry a divorced woman	Lev 21:7
That a Kohen is not to become defiled by a dead person	Lev 21:1
Not to mate a beast or a bird with a creature not of its own species	Lev 19:19
[Any animal whose testicles were] squashed, crushed, pulled out, or severed, you shall not offer up to the Lord, and in your land, you shall not do [it]	Lev 22:24
To make no image of a human being, even for ornamentation (as art)	Exodus 20:20
To make no oil like the anointing oil	Exodus 30:32
Not to reproduce the composition of the incense	Exodus 30:37-38
To do no work on the first day of Passover	Lev 23:6-7
To do no work on the seventh day of Passover	Lev 23:8
To do no work on the festival of Shavu’oth	Lev 23:21
To do no work on Rosh HaShanah	Lev 24-25
To do no work on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement)	Lev 23:28
To eat and drink nothing on Yom Kippur	Lev 23:29
To do no work on the first ay of Sukkoth	Lev 23:35
To do no work on Sh’mini Atzereth (the Eight Day of Assembly)	Lev 23:36
To do nothing whatsoever from which there can result hillul Hashem, a desecration of the Divine name	Lev 23:32
Not to go straying after the thought of the heart and the sight of the eyes	Num 15:39
To destroy no holy thing and to erase no names whatsoever among the holy names of God	Deut 12:4
Not to deviate from the words of the great Beth Bin (the supreme religious court)	Deut 17:11
To add nothing to eh mitzvot of the Torah	Deut 13:1
To take nothing away from the mitzvoth of the Torah	Deut 13:1
To make no paving stone in order to bow down to the ground on it, even to the blessed God	Lev 26:1
To erect no pillar anywhere at all	Deut 16:22
To inscribe no tattooed marks in ones flesh	Lev 19:28
To produce no baldness over ones dead [near kin]	Duet 14:1
To practice no augury	Lev 19:26
To do no conjuring or soothsaying	Lev 19:26
To practice no divination	Deut 18:10
To practice no sorcery	Deut 18:10
To cast no charms or spells	Deut 18:10-11
To do no act of an ov (a kind of medium)	Lev 19:31
To do no act of a yid’oni ( a kind of wizard)	Lev 19:31
To make no inquiry of an ov	Deut 18:10-11
To make no inquiry of a yid’oni	Deut 18:10-11
To make no inquiry of the dead	Deut 18:10-11
Not to prophesy falsehood in the name of Hashem	Deut 18:20
Not to shave the temples of the head	Lev 19:27
Not to mar [razor-shave] an edge of the beard	Lev 19:27
That a man’s garment etc., should not be on a woman	Deut 22:5
That a man should not wear a woman’s garment	Deut 22:5
Not to plow with an ox and donkey together	Deut 22:10
To wear no garment of wool and linen	Deut 22:11
Not to turn a blind eye to the lost object of a Jew, to leave it	Deut 22:1, 3
Not to leave the animal of a Jew lying crunched under its load, and go off on ones way without helping him to unload the animal	Deut 22:4
Not to fail to keep a vow	Num 30:3
Not to delay ones vowed or voluntary offering	Deut 23:22
For a laborer not to eat during work on produce that grows from the ground, but only at the end of the work	Deut 23:26
That a laborer is not to take away in his hand any of the produce with which he has worked, not is he to take more than what he eats and give to others	Deut 23:26
Not to prevent an animal from eating during its work	Deut 25:4
That if a person chances upon a bird’s nest before him, he is not to take the mother bird with the young	Deut 22:6
Not to leave any stumbling block (source of accidents in ones house)	Deut 22:8
Not to destroy any fruit-bearing tree in setting siege	Deut 20:19
Not to dwell in the land of Egypt	Deut 17:16
That a ritually unclean person is not to enter the camp of the Levites, which means the Temple Mount	Deut 23:11
Not to forget the action of Amalek	Deut 25:17. 19