613 Mizvot
Punishment and Restitution
- That the Court shall pass sentence of death by decapitation with the sword
(Ex. 21:20; Lev. 26:25) (affirmative).
- That the Court shall pass sentence of death by strangulation (Lev. 20:10)
(affirmative).
- That the Court shall pass sentence of death by burning with fire (Lev.
20:14) (affirmative).
- That the Court shall pass sentence of death by stoning (Deut. 22:24)
(affirmative).
- To hang the dead body of one who has incurred that penalty (Deut. 21:22)
(affirmative).
- That the dead body of an executed criminal shall not remain hanging on the
tree over night (Deut. 21:23) (negative).
- To inter the executed on the day of execution (Deut. 21:23) (affirmative)
- Not to accept ransom from a murderer (Num. 35:31) (negative).
- To exile one who committed accidental homicide (Num. 35:25) (affirmative).
- To establish six cities of refuge (for those who committed accidental
homicide) (Deut. 19:3) (affirmative).
- Not to accept ransom from an accidental homicide, so as to relieve him from
exile (Num. 35:32) (negative).
- To decapitate the heifer in the manner prescribed (in expiation of a murder
on the road, the perpetrator of which remained undiscovered) (Deut. 21:4)
(affirmative).
- Not to plow nor sow the rough valley (in which a heifer's neck was broken)
(Deut. 21:4) (negative).
- To adjudge a thief to pay compensation or (in certain cases) suffer death
(Ex. 21:16; Ex. 21:37; Ex. 22:1) (affirmative).
- That he who inflicts a bodily injury shall pay monetary compensation (Ex.
21:18-19) (affirmative).
- To impose a penalty of fifty shekels upon the seducer (of an unbetrothed
virgin) and enforce the other rules in connection with the case (Ex. 22:15-16)
(affirmative).
- That the violator (of an unbetrothed virgin) shall marry her (Deut.
22:28-29) (affirmative).
- That one who has raped a damsel and has then (in accordance with the law)
married her, may not divorce her (Deut. 22:29) (negative).
- Not to inflict punishment on Shabbat (Ex. 35:3) (because some punishments
were inflicted by fire) (negative).
- To punish the wicked by the infliction of stripes (Deut. 25:2)
(affirmative).
- Not to exceed the statutory number of stripes laid on one who has incurred
that punishment (Deut. 25:3) (and by implication, not to strike anyone)
- Not to spare the offender, in imposing the prescribed penalties on one who
has caused damage (Deut. 19:13) (negative).
- To do unto false witnesses as they had purposed to do (to the accused)
(Deut. 19:19) (affirmative).
- Not to punish any one who has committed an offense under duress (Deut.
22:26) (negative).