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R' Ḥananya ben Gamla says: The descendants of Noah are also commanded concerning the prohibition against consuming the blood from a living animal. R' Ḥideka says: They are also commanded concerning castration, i.e., they are prohibited to castrate any living animal. R' Shimon says: They are also
R' Yosei says: With regard to every type of sorcery that is stated in the passage about sorcery, it is prohibited for a descendant of Noah to engage in it. This is derived from the verses: “When you come into the land that YHWH your God gives you, you shall not learn to do like the abominations o
R' Elazar says: The descendants of Noah were also commanded concerning the prohibition of diverse kinds. Nevertheless, it is permitted for the descendants of Noah to wear diverse kinds of wool and linen and to sow diverse kinds of seeds together, and they are prohibited only with regard to breedin
§ The Talmud asks: From where are these matters, the Noahide mitzvot, derived? R' Yoḥanan says: It is from that which the verse states: “And YHWH God commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat f
The verse is interpreted homiletically as follows: With regard to the term “and…commanded,” these are the courts of judgment; and so it states in another verse: “For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of YHWH, to do r