The Command

mitsvah מִצְוָה

`And this [is] the command, the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it, -- Deuteronomy 6

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Come up unto Me to the mount, and be there, and I give to thee the tables of stone, and the law, and The Command, which I have written to direct them.' Exodus 24:12

Question: Could “the command” be the same “the command” from Genesis? Don’t eat from the tree of knowing good and evil. Like, you don’t decide what is good and evil - YHWH/God does. Period.

Genesis 45:21 And the Bnei Yisroel did so; and Yosef gave them agalot, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the derech.

Exodus 17:1 And kol Adat Bnei Yisroel journeyed from the midbar of Siyn, setting out, according to the commandment of Hashem, and encamped in Rephidim; and there was no mayim for HaAm to drink.

Exodus 38:21 These are the accounts of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were recorded according to the commandment of Moses, by the service of the Levites, under the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the kohen.

Deuteronomy 6:1 “Now this is the commandment, the statutes and ordinances that Adonai your God commanded to teach you to do in the land you are crossing over to possess—

Deuteronomy 7:11 Therefore you are to keep the commandment—both the statutes and the ordinances—that I am commanding you today, to do them.

Singular 90: BibleGateway - Keyword Search: Mitzvah

Plural 121: BibleGateway - Keyword Search: mitzvot

AKA:

Commandment

Commission

Set of all the Commandments

Law

Ordinance

Precept

Meaning

a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law):—(which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept

Notes

Generally used to refer to the list of laws given in the Books of Moses and when Jesus speaks about the Old Testament.