The tenth century [[Shmuel Samuel ben Hophni's Noahide Law|rediscovery in the Cairo Genizah]] of a biblical-commentary by [[Samuel ben Hophni Gaon]] lists thirty Noahide Commandments based , Gaon, endows us with yet another significant statement on Ulla's Talmudic statementthe 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, though in the text is problematicyear 1000. Samuel ben Hophni goes on to compose a list of these thirty commands. He includes Rashi, explicating the prohibitions against suicide and false oathsTalmud (Hullin 92), about a hundred years later, as well as remarked that the thirty laws are nowhere identified. It was this gap that the imperatives related Gaon was undertaking to prayer, sacrifices and honoring one's parentsfill. The commandmentsGaon also provided each of his laws with a Pentateuchal proof text and as a result, according we are in a better position to Shmuel ben Hophni Gaon, cover: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.
1The 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]]. No ===[[idolatryProhibition of Idolatry]]=== 1. No idolatry<br>
2. To pray<br>
3. To offer ritual sacrifices only to God<br>
=== [[Prohibition against blasphemyof Blasphemy]]=== 4. To believe in the singularity of God, see, [[Monotheism]]<br>5. No [[blasphemy]]<br>6. No [[witchcraft]]<br>7. No [[Haruspex|soothsayers]]<br>8. No [[Conjuration|conjurers]]<br>
9. No sorcerers<br>
10. No [[Medium (spirituality)|mediums]]<br>11. No [[demonology]]<br>12. No [[Magic (paranormal)|wizardry]]<br>13. No [[necromancy]]<br>
14. To respect father & mother<br>
===[[Prohibition against murderof Homicide]]=== 15. No [[murder]]<br>
16. No suicide<br>
17. No Moloch worship (infant sacrifice)<br> ===[[MolochProhibition of Sexual Immorality]] worship === 18. No adultery<br>19. Formal legal marriages<br>20. No incest with close relatives<br>21. No sodomy (infant sacrificei.e. homosexuality)<br>22. No bestiality<br>23. Not to crossbreed animals<br>24. No castration<br> ===[[Prohibition of Theft]]===
===Prohibition against Theft===1825. No stealing<br>
===[[Prohibition against sexual immoralityof Limb of a Living Creature]]===19. No [[adultery]]<br>20. Formal legal [[marriage]]s<br>21. No [[incest]] with close relatives<br>22. No [[sodomy]] (i.e. [[homosexuality]])<br>23. No [[Zoophilia|bestiality]]<br>24. Not to [[Crossbreeding|crossbreed animals]]<br>25. No [[castration]]<br>
===Prohibition against Eating the limb of a living animal===
26. Not to eat a limb of a living creature<br>
27. Not to eat or drink blood<br>
28. Not to eat [[carrion (biology)|carrion]] (for those recognised by a [[''Beth Din]]'')<br> ===[[Imperative of Legal System]]===
===Establish Courts of Justice===
29. To establish courts and a system of justice<br>
30. No false oaths<br>
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