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 . No incest with close relatives<br>
 . No anal-sex<br>
-. No bestiality<br>
+. No other sexual activity with animals<br>
 . Not to crossbreed with animals<br>
 . No castration(transgenderism)<br>

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 . Formal legal marriages<br>
 . No incest with close relatives<br>
-. No sodomy (i.e. homosexuality)<br>
+. No anal-sex<br>
 . No bestiality<br>
-. Not to crossbreed animals<br>
+. Not to crossbreed with animals<br>
-. No castration<br>
+. No castration(transgenderism)<br>
 ===[[Prohibition of Theft]]===

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-Various [[rabbinic literature|rabbinic sources]] have different positions on the way the seven laws are to be subdivided in categories. [[Maimonides]] (Melakhim 10:6) lists one additional Noahide commandment forbidding the coupling of different kinds of animals and the mixing of trees. Maimonides commentator Radbaz expressed surprise that he left out castration and sorcery which were listed in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 56b).
+Various [[rabbinic literature|rabbinic sources]] have different positions on the way the seven laws are to be subdivided in categories.
-The [[tenth century]] Rabbi [[Saadia Gaon]] included [[tithe]]s and [[levirate marriage]]. The [[eleventh century]] Rav Nissim Gaon states that all religious acts which can be understood through human reasoning are obligatory upon Jew and Gentile alike. According to this reasoning, he included "listening to God's Voice", "knowing God" and "serving God".  The [[fourteenth century]] Rabbi [[Nissim of Gerona|Nissim ben Reuben Gerondi]] included the commandment of charity.
+[[Maimonides]] (Melakhim 10:6) lists one additional Noahide commandment forbidding the coupling of different kinds of animals and the mixing of trees.
-The [[sixteenth century]] work ''Asarah Maamarot'' by Rabbi [[Menahem Azariah of Fano]] (Rema mi-Fano) enumerates thirty commandments, listing the latter twenty-three as extensions of the original seven. Another commentator (''Kol Hidushei Maharitz Chayess'' I, end Ch. 10) suggests these are not related to the first seven, nor based on Scripture, but were passed down by oral tradition. The number thirty derives from the statement of the Talmudic sage Ulla in tractate Hullin 92a, though he lists only three other rules in addition to the original seven, consisting of the prohibitions against homosexuality and cannibalism, as well as the imperative to honor the Torah.
+Maimonides commentator Radbaz expressed surprise that he left out castration and sorcery which were listed in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 56b).
-Talmud commentator [[Rashi]] remarks on this that he does not know the other Commandments referred to. Though the authorities seem to take it for granted that Ulla's thirty commandments included the original seven, an additional thirty laws is also possible from the reading.
+The [[tenth century]] Rabbi [[Saadia Gaon]] included [[tithe]]s and [[levirate marriage]].
 Theft, robbery and stealing covers the appropriate understanding of other persons, their property and their rights. The establishment of courts of justice promotes the value of the responsibility of a corporate society of people to enforce these laws and define these terms. The refusal to engage in unnecessary lust or cruelty demonstrates respect for the [[Creation (theology)|Creation]] itself as renewed after the Flood. To not do [[murder]] would include [[human sacrifice]].

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 ==See also==
 * [[Seven Laws as Categories]]
 * [[613 mitzvot]]
 * [[613 Mitzvos according to Sefer Hamitzvos of Rambam]]

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 ==Thirty Noahide Commandments==
-The tenth century [[Shmuel ben Hophni Gaon]] lists thirty Noahide Commandments based on Ulla's Talmudic statement, though the text is problematic. He includes the prohibitions against suicide and false oaths, as well as the imperatives related to prayer, sacrifices and honoring one's parents. The commandments, according to Shmuel ben Hophni Gaon, cover:
+The [[Samuel ben Hophni's Noahide Law|rediscovery in the Cairo Genizah]] of a biblical-commentary by [[Samuel ben Hophni]], Gaon, endows us with yet another significant statement on the Laws of the Sons of Noah.  Father-in-law to the better remembered Hai Gaon, Samuel ben Hophni was head of the academy at Sura, southern Babylonia, in the year 1000. Samuel ben Hophni goes on to compose a list of these thirty commands. Rashi, explicating the Talmud (Hullin 92), about a hundred years later, remarked that the thirty laws are nowhere identified. It was this gap that the Gaon was undertaking to fill. The Gaon also provided each of his laws with a Pentateuchal proof text and as a result, we are in a better position to fathom the meaning and nature of each.
-=== Prohibition against idolatry===
+Justice, the eighteenth item, does not actually appear in the Genizah manuscripts, but was supplied as likely. That is, each surviving manuscript is defective between the seventeenth and nineteenth positions, but since justice is the only one of the basic seven Laws of Noah which would otherwise be absent from the Gaon's thirty, and since we have every reason to expect that the Gaon recognized the basic seven, justice must have originally featured in the eighteenth position.
-. No [[idolatry]]<br>
+The following is a listing of Samuel ben Hophni's thirty laws, re-arranged in the order following Maimonides listing of the seven laws.  For the original ordering and further discussion see [[Samuel ben Hophni's Noahide Law]].
 . To pray<br>
 . To offer ritual sacrifices only to God<br>
-=== Prohibition against blasphemy===
+===[[Prohibition of Blasphemy]]===
-. To believe in the singularity of God, see, [[Monotheism]]<br>
-. No [[blasphemy]]<br>
+. To believe in the singularity of God, see, Monotheism<br>
-. No [[witchcraft]]<br>
+. No blasphemy<br>
-. No [[Haruspex|soothsayers]]<br>
+. No witchcraft<br>
-. No [[Conjuration|conjurers]]<br>
+. No soothsayers<br>
 . No sorcerers<br>
-. No [[Medium (spirituality)|mediums]]<br>
+. No mediums<br>
-. No [[demonology]]<br>
+. No demonology<br>
-. No [[Magic (paranormal)|wizardry]]<br>
+. No wizardry<br>
-. No [[necromancy]]<br>
+. No necromancy<br>
 . To respect father & mother<br>
-===Prohibition against murder===
+===[[Prohibition of Homicide]]===
-. No [[murder]]<br>
 . No suicide<br>
-. No [[Moloch]] worship (infant sacrifice)<br>
+. No Moloch worship (infant sacrifice)<br>
-===Prohibition against Theft===
+. No stealing<br>
-===Prohibition against sexual immorality===
+===[[Prohibition of Limb of a Living Creature]]===
 . Not to eat a limb of a living creature<br>
 . Not to eat or drink blood<br>
-. Not to eat [[carrion (biology)|carrion]] (for those recognised by a [[Beth Din]])<br>
+. Not to eat carrion (for those recognised by a ''Beth Din'')<br>
 . To establish courts and a system of justice<br>
 . No false oaths<br>

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 ==The Sixty Six Noahide Laws==
-Rabbi Aaron Lichtenstein, following the general consensus of halacha sees the [[Seven Laws as Categories]].  In Rabbi Aaron Lichtenstein's opinion it is possible to look at all seven laws with the view towards establishing the extent to which they, severally, correspond to the Jewish law directed at Jews.  His study seeks to resolve the question raised in the correspondence as to the categorization of the Laws of Noah. He sought to prove that the earliest sources on Noahism, and the writers who deal with these sources conscientiously, view the seven categories as subject heads for a mass of legal dicta.
+Rabbi Aaron Lichtenstein, following the general consensus of halacha, sees the [[Seven Laws as Categories]].  In Rabbi Aaron Lichtenstein's opinion it is possible to look at all seven laws with the view towards establishing the extent to which they, severally, correspond to the Jewish law directed at Jews.  His study seeks to resolve the question raised in the correspondence as to the categorization of the Laws of Noah. He sought to prove that the earliest sources on Noahism, and the writers who deal with these sources conscientiously, view the seven categories as subject heads for a mass of legal dicta.
 His intention was not to define Noahide law in terms of an expanded list of sixty six laws, rather only to prove that the volume of Noahide Law is greater - when compared to the volume of Israelite Law - than a ratio of 7 to 613 would indicate. His book "The Seven Laws of Noah" demonstrates the breadth of Noahic legislation.<ref>[[Aaron Lichtenstein|Lichtenstein, Aaron]]. "The Seven Laws of Noah". New York: The Rabbi Jacob Joseph School Press and Z. Berman Books, 2d ed. 1986</ref>