page_title: Bo (parsha)
section_title: Commandments
hierarchical_section_title: Bo (parsha) / Commandments
context_page_description: Bo is the fifteenth weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the Book of Exodus. The parashah constitutes Exodus 10:1–13:16. The parashah tells of the last three plagues on Egypt and the first Passover.
  The parashah is made up of 6,149 Hebrew letters, 1,655 Hebrew words, 106 verses, and 207 lines in a Torah Scroll. Jews read it the fifteenth Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in January or early February. As the parashah describes the first Passover, Jews also read part of the parashah, Exodus 12:21–51, as the initial Torah reading for the first day of Passover, and another part, Exodus 13:1–16, as the initial Torah reading for the first intermediate day of Passover. Jews also read another part of the parashah, Exodus 12:1–20, which describes the laws of Passover, as the maftir Torah reading for the Special Sabbath Shabbat HaChodesh, which falls on Rosh Chodesh Nisan, the month in which Jews celebrate Passover.
context_section_description: According to Sefer ha-Chinuch, there are 9 positive and 11 negative commandments in the parashah:
  Courts must calculate to determine when a new month begins.
  To slaughter the Passover lamb at the specified time
  To eat the Passover lamb with unleavened bread (מַצָּה, matzah) and bitter herbs (maror) on the night of the fourteenth of Nisan
  Not to eat the Passover meat raw or boiled
  Not to leave any meat from the Passover lamb over until morning
  To destroy all leavened bread on the 14th of Nisan
  To eat unleavened bread (מַצָּה, matzah) on the first night of Passover
  Not to find chametz in your domain seven days
  Not to eat mixtures containing chametz all seven days of Passover
  An apostate must not eat from the Passover lamb.
  A permanent or temporary hired worker must not eat from it.
  Not to take the paschal meat from the confines of the group
  Not to break any bones of the Passover lamb
  An uncircumcised male must not eat from it.
  To set aside the firstborn animals
  Not to eat chametz all seven days of Passover
  Not to see chametz in your domain seven days
  To relate the Exodus from Egypt on the first night of Passover
  To redeem the firstborn donkey by giving a lamb to a Kohen
  To break the neck of the donkey if the owner does not intend to redeem it
caption: A page from a 14th-century German Haggadah
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