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Wisdom. Laws of Torah Study, Chapter 7
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Laws of Foreign Worship and their Customs
They comprise fifty-one commandments: Two positive commandments and forty-nine negative commandments.
And this is their enumeration:
1) Not to turn to foreign worship. 2) Not to stray after the thoughts of the heart and the sight of the eyes. 3) Not to blasphemize. 4) Not to worship it in its standard way. 5) Not to bow to it. 6) Not to make an idol for oneself. 7) Not to make an idol and even for others. 8) Not to create shapes; and even for beauty. 9) Not to entice others after it. 10) To burn a city that was led astray. 11) Not to rebuild it.
And the elucidation of all of these commandments is in these chapters:
Chapter One
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