In this week's parashah, Ki Tetze (means, when you go out), Moses continues his final speech to the Israelites by outlining 74 of the Torah's 613 mitzvot .
This parsha is notable as it contains the most mitzvot of all parashot, some count 72 ( Mamonides) some 74, but I have gone over them myself and found 76.
It starts at verse 10 of the 21st chapter of Deuteronomy and ends with chapter 25, verse 19
Listing of mitzvot found in this parshat.
1. To assist in replacing the load upon a neighbor's beast ( 22:4)
2. Not to leave a beast, that has fallen down beneath its burden, unaided ( 22:4)
3. To leave ol'loth (the imperfect clusters) of the vineyard for the poor ( 24:21)
4. Not to return to take a forgotten sheaf (24:19) This applies to all fruit trees ( 24:20)
5. To leave the forgotten sheaves for the poor ( 24:19-20)
6.To lend to an alien at interest ( 23:21) According to tradition, this is mandatory
7.That a eunuch shall not marry a daughter of Israel ( 23:2)
8. That a mamzer shall not marry the daughter of a Jew ( 23:3)
9. That an Ammonite or Moabite shall never marry the daughter of an Israelite ( 23:4)
10. Not to exclude a descendant of Esau from the community of Israel for three generations ( 23:8-9)
11. Not to exclude an Egyptian from the community of Israel for three generations (23:8-9)
12. That there shall be no harlot (in Israel); that is, that there shall be no intercourse with a woman, without previous marriage with a deed of marriage and formal declaration of marriage ( 23:18 )
13. To take a wife by kiddushin, the sacrament of marriage ( 24:1)
14. That the newly married husband shall (be free) for one year to rejoice with his wife ( 24:5)
15. That a bridegroom shall be exempt for a whole year from taking part in any public labor, such as military service, guarding the wall and similar duties ( 24:5)
16. That one who defames his wife's honor (by falsely accusing her of unchastity before marriage) must live with her all his lifetime ( 22:19)
17. That a man may not divorce his wife concerning whom he has published an evil report (about her unchastity before marriage) ( 22:19)
18. To divorce by a formal written document ( 24:1)
19. That one who divorced his wife shall not remarry her, if after the divorce she had been married to another man ( 24:4)
20. That a widow whose husband died childless must not be married to anyone but her deceased husband's brother ( 25:5)
21. To marry the widow of a brother who has died childless ( 25:5)
22. That the widow formally release the brother-in-law (if he refuses to marry her) ( 25:7-9)
23. Not to take the mother-bird with the young ( 22:6)
24. To set the mother-bird free when taking the nest ( 22:6-7)
25. Not to eat or drink like a glutton or a drunkard (not to rebel against father or mother) ( 21:20)
26. Not to borrow on interest ( 23:20) (because this would cause the lender to sin)
27. Not to take in pledge utensils used in preparing food ( 24:6)
28. Not to exact a pledge from a debtor by force ( 24:10)
29. Not to keep the pledge from its owner at the time when he needs it ( 24:12)
30. To return a pledge to its owner ( 24:13).
31. Not to take a pledge from a widow ( 24:17)
32. Not to possess inaccurate measures and weights ( 25:13-14)
33. That the hired laborer shall be permitted to eat of the produce he is reaping ( 23:25-26)
34. That the hired laborer shall not take more than he can eat ( 23:25)
35. That a hired laborer shall not eat produce that is not being harvested ( 23:26)
36. To pay wages to the hired man at the due time ( 24:15)
37. Not to surrender a slave, who has fled to the land of Israel, to his owner who lives outside Palestine ( 23:16)
38. Not to wrong such a slave ( 23:17)
39. Not to muzzle a beast, while it is working in produce which it can eat and enjoy ( 25:4)
40. That a man should fulfill whatever he has uttered ( 23:24)
41. Not to delay in fulfilling vows or bringing vowed or free-will offerings ( 23:22)
42. That the court shall not accept the testimony of a close relative of the defendant in matters of capital punishment ( 24:16)
43. Not to pervert the judgment of strangers or orphans ( 24:17)
44. To make a parapet for your roof (22:8 )
45. Not to leave something that might cause hurt ( 22:8 )
46. To save the pursued even at the cost of the life of the pursuer ( 25:12)
47. Not to spare a pursuer, but he is to be slain before he reaches the pursued and slays the latter, or uncovers his nakedness ( 25:12)
48. To return lost property ( 22:1)
49. Not to pretend not to have seen lost property, to avoid the obligation to return it ( 22:3)
50. That the Court shall pass sentence of death by stoning ( 22:24)
51. To hang the dead body of one who has incurred that penalty ( 21:22)
52. That the dead body of an executed criminal shall not remain hanging on the tree over night ( 21:23)
53. To inter the executed on the day of execution ( 21:23)
54. That the violator (of an unbetrothed virgin) shall marry her (. 22:28-29)
55. That one who has raped a damsel and has then (in accordance with the law) married her, may not divorce her ( 22:29)
56. To punish the wicked by the infliction of stripes ( 25:2)
57. Not to exceed the statutory number of stripes laid on one who has incurred that punishment ( 25:3) (and by implication, not to strike anyone)
58. Not to punish any one who has committed an offense under duress ( 22:26)
59. Not to sow grain or herbs in a vineyard (. 22:9)
60. Not to eat the produce of diverse seeds sown in a vineyard ( 22:9)
61. Not to work with beasts of different species, yoked together ( 22:10)
62. That a man shall not wear women's clothing ( 22:5)
63. That a woman should not wear men's clothing ( 22:5)
64. Not to wear garments made of wool and linen mixed together ( 22:11)
65. Not to bring sacrifices out of the hire of a harlot or price of a dog ( a euphemism for sodomy?) ( 23:19)
66. Not to pluck out the marks of leprosy ( 24:8 )
67. To deal with a beautiful woman taken captive in war in the manner prescribed in the Torah ( 21:10-14)
68. Not to sell a beautiful woman, (taken captive in war) ( 21:14)
69. Not to degrade a beautiful woman (taken captive in war) to the condition of a bondwoman ( 21:14)
70. Not to offer peace to the Ammonites and the Moabites before waging war on them, as should be done to other nations ( 23:7)
71. That anyone who is unclean shall not enter the Camp of the Levites ( 23:11) (according to the Talmud, in the present day this means the Temple mount)
72. To have a place outside the camp for sanitary purposes ( 23:13)
73. To keep that place sanitary ( 23:14-15)
74. Always to remember what Amalek did ( 25:17)
75. That the evil done to us by Amalek shall not be forgotten ( 25:19)
76. To destroy the seed of Amalek ( 25:19)
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