Rabbi Samlai explains that six hundred and thirteen commandments were communicated to Moses; three hundred and sixty-five negative, according to the number of days in the year, and two hundred and forty-eight positive, according to the number of members in the human body. Rav Hamnunah asked what was the Scripture proof for this. The reply was (Deut. xxxiii. 4), " Moses commanded us a law" (Torah), which by Gematria answers to six hundred and eleven. " I am,8 and "Thou shalt have no other," which we heard from the Almighty Himself, together make up six hundred and thirteen.