“Don’t cut gashes in your flesh when someone dies or tattoo yourselves; I am YHWH.” Leviticus 19:28
“Why should the name of our father be eliminated from his family just because he didn’t have a son? Give us property to possess along with the brothers of our father.” Numbers 27:4
“…Tell the people of Isra’el to bring you a young red female cow without fault or defect and which has never borne a yoke.” Numbers 19:2
What Should I Do With My Tithe?
“…and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You.” – Genesis 28:22
“Speak to the people of Isra’el, instructing them to make, through all their generations, tzitziyot on the corners of their garments, and to put with the tzitzit on each corner a blue thread.” Numbers 15:38
Adopting a New Identity: Joining Israel
“…he will be like a citizen of the land.” Exodus 12:48
“Do not go around spreading slander among your people…” Leviticus 19:16
“You must not round off the corners of the hair on your head or ruin the corners of your beard.” Leviticus 19:27
“…ten fattened oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen and one hundred sheep, in addition to deer, gazelles, roebucks and fattened poultry.” 1Kings 5:3
“…You are not to boil a young animal in its mother’s milk.” Deuteronomy 14:21
Kosher Creatures and Other Creepy Crawlies“
“Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘These are the living creatures which you may eat among all the land animals:” Leviticus 11:2
“It is to be a permanent regulation through all your generations wherever you live that you will eat neither fat nor blood.” Leviticus 3:17
“and that they were to announce and pass the word in all their cities and in Yerushalayim, “Go out to the mountains, and collect branches of olives, wild olives, myrtles, palms, and other leafy trees to make sukkot, as prescribed.”
Gender Specification in Biblical Hebrew
“Speak to the children of Isra’el, instructing them to make, through all their generations, tzitziyot on the corners of their garments, and to put with the tzitzit on each corner a blue thread.” Numbers 15:38