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   The rainbow is the unofficial symbol of Noahidism, recalling the Genesis flood   
   narrative in which a rainbow appears to Noah after the Great Flood, indicating   
   that God would not flood the planet and destroy all life again.   
   The Seven Laws of Noah (Hebrew: שבע מצוות בני נח Sheva Mitzvot   
   B'nei Noach), also referred to as the Noahide Laws or the Noachide Laws (from   
   the Hebrew pronunciation of "Noah"), are a set of imperatives which, according   
   to the Talmud, were    
   given by God[1] as a binding set of laws for the "children of Noah" – that   
   is, all of humanity.[2][3]   
      
   According to Jewish tradition, non-Jews who adhere to these laws because they   
   were given by Moses[4] are said to be followers of Noahidism and regarded as   
   righteous gentiles, who are assured of a place in Olam Haba (עולם הבא,   
   the world to come),    
   the final reward of the righteous.[5][6]   
      
   The Seven Laws of Noah include prohibitions against worshipping idols, cursing   
   God, murder, adultery and sexual immorality, theft, eating flesh torn from a   
   living animal, as well as the obligation to establish courts of justice.   
      
      
   Contents   
   1	The Seven Laws   
   2	Origin   
   2.1	Torah sources   
   2.2	Book of Jubilees   
   2.3	Acts 15   
   2.4	Modern scholarship   
   3	In Halakha   
   3.1	Talmud   
   3.2	Punishment   
   3.3	Subdivisions   
   3.4	Ger toshav (resident alien)   
   3.5	Contemporary status   
   4	Maimonides   
   5	Christianity   
   6	Chabad movement   
   6.1	Sefer Sheva Mitzvot Hashem   
   6.2	Public recognition   
   6.2.1	United States   
   6.2.2	Israeli Druze   
   7	See also   
   8	References   
   9	Further reading   
   10	External links   
   The Seven Laws   
   The seven Noahide laws as traditionally enumerated are the following:[7][8]   
      
   Not to worship idols.   
   Not to curse God.   
   To establish courts of justice.   
   Not to commit murder.   
   Not to commit adultery, bestiality, or sexual immorality.   
   Not to steal.   
   Not to eat flesh torn from a living animal.   
   According to the Talmud,[7] the rabbis agree that the seven laws were given to   
   the sons of Noah. However, they disagree on precisely which laws were given to   
   Adam and Eve. Six of the seven laws are exegetically derived from passages in   
   Genesis,[9] with    
   the seventh being the establishing of courts.   
      
   The earliest complete rabbinic version of the seven laws can be found in the   
   Tosefta:[10]   
      
   “	Seven commandments were commanded of the sons of Noah:   
   concerning adjudication (dinim)   
   concerning idolatry (avodah zarah)   
   concerning blasphemy (qilelat ha-shem)   
   concerning sexual immorality (gilui arayot)   
   concerning blood-shed (shefikhut damim)   
   concerning robbery (ha-gezel)   
   concerning a limb torn from a living animal (eber min ha-hayy)   
   ”   
   Origin   
   Torah sources   
   According to the Genesis flood narrative, a deluge covered the whole world,   
   killing every surface-dwelling creature except Noah, his wife, his sons and   
   their wives, and the animals taken aboard Noah's Ark. According to this, all   
   modern humans are    
   descendants of Noah, thus the name Noahide Laws is referred to the laws that   
   apply to all of humanity. After the flood, God sealed a covenant with Noah   
   with the following admonitions (Genesis 9):   
      
   Flesh of a living animal: "However, flesh with its life-blood [in it], you   
   shall not eat." (9:4)   
   Murder and courts: "Furthermore, I will demand your blood, for [the taking of]   
   your lives, I shall demand it [even] from any wild animal. From man too, I   
   will demand of each person's brother the blood of man. He who spills the blood   
   of man, by man his    
   blood shall be spilt; for in the image of God He made man." (9:5–6)   
   Book of Jubilees   
   The Book of Jubilees, generally dated to the 2nd century BCE,[11] may include   
   an early reference to Noahide Law at verses 7:20–28:   
      
   And in the twenty-eighth jubilee Noah began to enjoin upon his sons' sons the   
   ordinances and commandments, and all the judgments that he knew, and he   
   exhorted his sons to observe righteousness, and to cover the shame of their   
   flesh, and to bless their    
   Creator, and honour father and mother, and love their neighbour, and guard   
   their souls from fornication and uncleanness and all iniquity. For owing to   
   these three things came the flood upon the earth ... For whoso sheddeth man's   
   blood, and whoso eateth    
   the blood of any flesh, shall all be destroyed from the earth.[12][13]   
      
   Acts 15   
   Main articles: Council of Jerusalem and Acts 15   
   The Jewish Encyclopedia article on Saul of Tarsus states:   
      
   According to Acts, Paul began working along the traditional Jewish line of   
   proselytizing in the various synagogues where the proselytes of the gate   
   [e.g., Exodus 20:9] and the Jews met; and only because he failed to win the   
   Jews to his views,    
   encountering strong opposition and persecution from them, did he turn to the   
   Gentile world after he had agreed at a convention with the apostles at   
   Jerusalem to admit the Gentiles into the Church only as proselytes of the   
   gate, that is, after their    
   acceptance of the Noachian laws (Acts 15:1–31)".[14]   
      
   The article "New Testament" states:   
      
   For great as was the success of Barnabas and Paul in the heathen world, the   
   authorities in Jerusalem insisted upon circumcision as the condition of   
   admission of members into the church, until, on the initiative of Peter, and   
   of James, the head of the    
   Jerusalem church, it was agreed that acceptance of the Noachian Laws—namely,   
   regarding avoidance of idolatry, fornication, and the eating of flesh cut from   
   a living animal—should be demanded of the heathen desirous of entering the   
   Church.[15]   
      
   Modern scholarship   
   David Novak presents a range of theories regarding the origin of the Noachide   
   laws, including the Bible, Hittite law, the Maccabean period, and the Roman   
   period.[16]   
      
   In Halakha   
   Talmud   
   According to the Talmud, the Noahide Laws apply to all humanity. In Judaism,   
   בני נח B'nei Noah (Hebrew, "Descendants of Noah", "Children of Noah")   
   refers to all of humankind.[17] The Talmud also states: "Righteous people of   
   all nations have a share    
   in the world to come".[18] Any non-Jew who lives according to these laws is   
   regarded as one of "the righteous among the gentiles".   
      
      
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