Do All My Commandments

1. Love God with your whole being. De 6:5 – “And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.” Mt 22:37-38 – “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.”
   1. Don’t recognize any other claim of divinity. Ex 20:3 – “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
   2. Don’t legitimize any other claim of divinity. Ex 23:13 – “And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.” *
   3. Don’t make any idol, image or likeness of God. Ex 20:4 – “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:” *
   4. Don’t revere any image intended to represent God. Ex 20:5a – “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them:”
   5. Don’t leverage God’s name, character or reputation lightly or selfishly. Ex 20:7 – “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.” Le 19:12 – “And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.”
   6. Worship God. Ps 29:2 – “Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.” Mt 4:10b: “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God,“
   7. Cleave to God. De 13:4 – “Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.”
   8. Obey God. 1Jn 5:3 – “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.”
   9. Fear God. De 10:20 – “Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.” *
      1. Hate evil. Pr  8:13 – “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.”
      2. Keep all God’s statutes and commandments. De 6:2 – “That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.” Ec 12:13 – “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”
      3. Serve God with trembling. Ps 2:11 – “Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.”
      4. Serve God with gladness. Ps 100:2 – “Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.”
      5. Serve only God, exclusively. De 16:13 – “Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.” Mt 4:10b: “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.” Mt 6:24: “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
         1. Do not be a man-pleaser. 1Co 7:23 – “Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.”
         2. Do all for God’s glory. 1Co 10:31 – “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”
         3. Do all in the name of Jesus Christ. Co 3:17 – “And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.”
   10. Trust God. Ps 37:3 – “Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.” Pr 3:5-6 – “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
       1. Do not worry. Mt 6:31 – “Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?“
       2. Do not fret. Ps 37:1 – “Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.”
       3. Commit your plans to God. Ps 37:5 – “Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.”
   11. Do not add to or take away from God’s word. De 4:2 – “Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.”
2. Love your neighbor as yourself. Le 19:18b – “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.” Mt 22:39 – “And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
   1. (J) Love your enemies. Mt 5:44 – “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;”
   2. Treat others as you want them to treat you. Mt 7:12 – “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.”
   3. Love others as Christ loves you. Jn 15:12 – This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.”
   4. Treat everyone with respect and honor. 1Pe 2:17a – “Honour all men.”
   5. Do everything in love. 1Co 16:14 – “Let all your things be done with charity.”

Personal

1. Memorize God’s Word. Ep 6:17 – “And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:”
   1. Memorize Torah. De 6:6 – “And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:” De 11:18a – “Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul,”
      
   2. Memorize Psalms. Ep 5:19 – “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;”
   3. Memorize Christ’s words. Jn 15:7 – “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.“ Co 3:16 – “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”
   4. Memorize the prophets and the epistles. 2P 3:2 – “That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:”
2. Meditate on Torah continually. De 6:7b – “and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”
   1. Bind them onto your hand or arm as a reminder. De 6:8a – “And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand,” De 11:18b – “and bind them for a sign upon your hand,”.
   2. So they will be continually front and center in your mind. De 6:8a – “and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.” De 11:18c – “that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
   3. Write them on the posts of your house. De 6:9a – “And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house,”
   4. Promote public visibility of God’s Law. De 6:9b – “and on thy gates.” *
3. Wear blue-ribboned fringes in the edges of your clothing. Nu 15:37–39 – “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and  remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:” De 22:12 – “Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.”
4. Pray about everything. Php 4:6 – “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.”
   1. Do not flaunt your prayer life. Mt 6:6 – “But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.”
   2. Pray without giving up. 1Th 5:17 – “Pray without ceasing.”
   3. Pray for everyone. 1Ti 2:1 – “I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;“
   4. Pray for government officials. 1Ti 2:2 – “For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.”
   5. Pray for those in spiritual community who ask for deliverance from patterns of sin. Ja 5:16 – “Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
   6. Get wisdom and understanding. Pr 4:7 – “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”
5. Earnestly study Scripture for yourself to ensure you know the truth. 2Ti 2:15 – “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
   1. Pray for wisdom and understanding. Ja 1:5 – “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”
   2. Be sober and vigilant. 1Pe 5:8 – “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” Titus 2:12 – “Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;”
      1. Don’t get high on drugs or alcohol. Ep 5:18 – “And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”
      2. Be aware of your thoughts and motives. Pr 4:23 – “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”
6. Honor your vows. Nu 30:2 – “If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.” De 23:21-23 – “When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.”
7. Do not engage in occult practices. De 18:10–11 – “There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.” Le 20:6 – “And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.”
8. Wear gender-appropriate clothing. De 22:5 – “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.”
9. Do not disfigure your appearance. Le 19:27-28 – “Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. “ De 14:1 – “Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.”
10. Respect Creation. Le 22:28  – “And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.” De 22:6-7 –“If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: but thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.” Ex 23:19b, De 14:21b – “Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.” *
11. Males, be circumcised. Ge 17:11 – “And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.” *
12. Be strong. 1Co 16:13 – “Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.”
13. Resist peer pressure. Ex 23:3 – “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:”
14. Steer clear of deceptive activity. Ex 23:7 – “Keep thee far from a false matter;”

Appointed Times

1. Keep the weekly Sabbath. Ex 20:8 – “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.”
   1. Rest on sabbath. Ex 23:12 – “Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.”
   2. Work the other six days of the week. Ex 20:9 – “Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:“
   3. Keep sabbath on the seventh day. Ex 20:10a – “but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God“
   4. Do not work on Sabbath. Ex 20:10b – “in it thou shalt not do any work, thou,“
      1. Avoid routine, more difficult tasks on sabbath. Ex 35:3 – “Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.” *
   5. Do not require others to work on Sabbath. Ex 20:10c – “nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:” *
   6. Celebrate creation on Sabbath. Ex 20:11 – “for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.”
   7. Call sabbath a delight, honorable and holy. Is 58:13 – “If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:”
   8. Focus on submitting to God in all words, affections and actions. Is 58:13 – “If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:”
   9. Meet together for worship on Sabbath. Is 66:23 – “And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.”
2. Keep the monthly New Moon feast. Ps 81:3 – “Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.” 
   1. Blow a trumpet to mark the new month. Nu 10:10 – “Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.”
   2. Meet together for worship in the new month. Is 66:23 – “And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.”
3. Keep the feast of Passover. De 16:1-2 – “Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.” *
4. Keep the feast of Unleavened Bread. Ex 12:15 – “Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.” De 16:3-4 – “Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.”
5. Celebrate Firstfruits. Le 23:10-14 – “Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: and he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD. And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.”
6. Keep the feast of Weeks. De 16: 9-11 – “Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.”
7. Keep the feast of Trumpets. Le 23:24–25 – “Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
8. Keep the Day of Atonement. Le 16:29 – “And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:”

9. Keep the feast of Tabernacles. De 16: 9-11 – “Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine: and thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates. Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.”

Dietary

1. Do not eat meat with the blood. Ge 9:4: “But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.” * Le 17:13 – “And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.”
2. Eat only clean food. Le 20:25 – “Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.”
   1. Eat clean beasts. De 14:4-6 – “These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, the hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.”
   2. Eat clean fish. De 14:9 – “These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:”
   3. Each clean birds. De 14:11 – “Of all clean birds ye shall eat.”
   4. Eat leaping flying insects. Le 11:21-22 – “Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.” *
   5. Do not eat unclean food. De 14:3 – “Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.”
      1. Do not eat unclean beasts. De 14:7-8 – “Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you. And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.”
      2. Do not eat unclean fish. De 14:10 – “And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.”
      3. Do not eat unclean birds. De 14:12-18 – “But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, and the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, and every raven after his kind, and the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, the little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, and the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.” Le 11:20 – “All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
      4. Do not eat creeping flying insects. De 14:12-19 – “And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.”
3. Do not eat the fat of a sacrificial animal. Le 7:23-24 – “Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat. And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.”
4. Don’t eat animals killed by other animals; this is dogfood. Ex 22:31 – “And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.”

Holiness

1. Be holy because God is holy. Le 11:45 – “For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”
   1. Pursue holiness. He 12:14 – “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:”
   2. Strive for perfect holiness. De 18:13 – “Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.” Le 19:2b – “Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.”
   3. Dedicate your body to God. Ro 12:1 – “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”
   4. Align all thoughts, beliefs and feelings with Torah. Ps 119:9 – “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.” Pr 4:23 – “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” 2Co 10:4-5 – “(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;” Mt 15:19-20 – “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: these are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.” Php 4:8 – “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”
   5. Ask those in trusted spiritual community to pray for your deliverance from patterns of sin. Ja 5:16 – “Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
   6. Pursue holiness in every area of life. 1Pe 1:15-16 – “But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.”
   7. Avoid all types of mental, spiritual and physical uncleanness. Ep 5:3-4 – “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.”
   8. Pursue godly virtues. 1Ti 6:11 – “But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.” 2Pe 1:5-7 – “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.”
   9. Submit to correction /exhortation from spiritual community. Ep 5:21 – “Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.”
2. Do not live in a state of unresolved uncleanness. Ep 5:3 – “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;” *
   1. Pay attention to your environment and resolve uncleanness as needed. Le 5:2-3 – “Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty. Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.” *
   2. Consider yourself unclean for the day if you touch the carcass of:
      1. a flying, creeping insect. Le 11:23–24 – “But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you. And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.“
      2. an animal having more than two toes or hooves which does not chew the cud. Le 11:26 – “The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.”
         1. Swine do not fit this description since they are clovenfooted (have a split hoof – 11:7).
         2. The tapir and hippopotamus have more than two toes or hooves, so they are not clovenfooted (with only two toes – De 14:6).
         3. The “until the even” seems to be implied from the end of verse 27, covered next.
      3. an animal which travels on four paws. Le 11:27 – “And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.”
      4. a clean animal that is not slaughtered – Le 11:39 “And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.”
      5. Also, wash your clothes if you carry the carcass of:
         1. a flying, creeping insect. Le 11:25 – “And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.”
         2. an animal having more than two toes or hooves which does not chew the cud or one which travels on four paws. Le 11:28 – “And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.”
            1. a clean animal that is not slaughtered – Le 11:40b “he also that beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.”
   3. Bathe, wash your clothes and consider yourself unclean for the rest of the day if you eat the carcass of clean animal which was not slaughtered. Le 11:40a – “And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even:” Le 17:15 – “And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.”
   4. Consider a mother unclean after giving birth:
      1. For a week if she bears a son. Le 12:2 – “Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.”
      2. For two weeks if she bears a daughter. Le 12:5a – “But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation:“
   5. Consider a person diagnosed with leprosy unclean. Le 13:2–3 – “When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests: and the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.”
      1. Isolate lepers from others. Le 13:46 – “All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.”
   6. Consider one with an oozing infection unclean. Le 15:2-3 – “Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean. And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.”
      1. Consider any thing they sit or lie down on unclean. Le 15:4 – “Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.” Le 15:9 – “And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue shall be unclean.”
      2. Consider anyone who touches anything that was beneath them unclean for the day. Le 10a – “And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even:”
      3. Wash your clothes, bathe and consider yourself unclean for the day if you:
         1. touch the bed of the infected person. Le 15:5 – “And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.”
         2. sit where they sat. Le 15: 6 – “And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.”
         3. touch their skin. Le 15: 7 – “And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.”
         4. if they spit on you. Le 15: 8 – “And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.”
         5. if you carry anything that was under them. Le 15:10b – “he that beareth any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.”
         6. if they touch you without washing their hands. Le 15:11 – “And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.”
         7. Consider them unclean for a week after they are healed of the infection. Le 15:13a – “And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing,“
            1. Consider them clean at the end of the week when they wash their clothes and bathe in running water.” Le 15:13b – “and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.“
      4. Destroy anything the person touches made of clay. Le 15:12a – “And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken:”
      5. Rinse with water anything the person touches made of wood. Le 15:12b – “and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.”
   7. Anything or anyone contacting semen must be washed in water and considered unclean for the rest of the day.
      1. Consider the man unclean. Le 15:16 – “And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
      2. Consider any contaminated cloth or leather unclean. Le 15:17 – “And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.”
      3. Consider the woman who has sex with the man unclean. Le 15:18 – “The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.
   8. Isolate a menstruous woman for a week. Le 15:19a – “And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days:”
      1. Consider anyone who touches her unclean for the rest of the day. Le 15:19b – “and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.”
      2. Consider anything she sits or lies on unclean. Le 15:20 – “And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
      3. Anyone who touches her bedding must bathe and wash their clothes and be considered unclean for the rest of the day. Le 15:21 – “And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.”
   9. Manage uncleanness related to contact with a human corpse. Nu 19:20 – “But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.” *
      1. Consider anyone who touches a human corpse or bone, or a grave  unclean for a week. Nu 19:11 – “He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.” Nu 19:16 – “And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.”
      2. If a person dies in a tent:
         1. Consider everything in the tent unclean for a week. Nu 19:14 – “This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.”
         2. Consider any open vessel without a tight covering unclean. Nu 19:15 – “And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.”
      3. Consider anything touched by anyone defiled in this way unclean. Nu 19:22a – “And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean;”
      4. Consider anyone touching such an unclean object unclean for the day. Nu 19:22b – “and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.”

Family

1. Honor your father and mother. Ex 20:12 – “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
   1. Do not dishonor your father or your mother. De 27:16 – “Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.”
   2. Do not strike your father or your mother. Ex 21:15 – “And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.”
   3. Do not curse your father or your mother. Ex 21:17 – “And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.”
2. Husbands, cleave to your wife. Ge 2:24 – “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” *
   1. Love your wife as Christ loves the Church. Ep 5:25 – “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
   2. Love your wife as your own body. Ep 5:28 – “So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”
   3. Love your wife as yourself. Ep 5:33a – “Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself;”
   4. Husbands, dwell with your wife with understanding and wisdom, honoring them as the weaker vessel. 1Pe 3:7 – “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.” 
   5. Husbands, do not be bitter or harsh with your wife. Co 3:19 – “Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.”
3. Wives, reverence your husband. Ep 5:33b – “and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”
   1. Be in subjection to your husband. 1Pe 3:1 – “Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;”
   2. Submit to your husband. Ep 5:22 – “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
   3. Be subject to your husband in every thing, as unto Christ. Ep 5:24 – “Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.”
   4. Obey your husband. Ti 2:5 – “To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”
   5. Call your husband Lord. 1Pe 3:6 – “Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.”
   6. Love your husband and children. Ti 2:4 – “That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,”
4. Satisfy your spouse sexually. 1Co 7:3-5 – “Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.”
5. Fathers, bring up your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Ep 6:4 – “And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
6. Teach Torah diligently to your children. De 6:7a – “And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children,”
7. Children, obey your parents. Ep 6:1 – “Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”
8. Husbands, do not uncover your wife’s nakedness when she is menstruating. Le 18:19 – “Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.”
   1. Consider this sin worthy of the death penalty. Le 20:18 – “And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.”
9. Circumcise boys when they are eight days old. Le 12:3 – “And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.” *
10. Do not practice child-sacrifice. Le 18:21 – “And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.”
11. Husbands, do not abandon or divorce your wife. 1Co 6:11b – “let not the husband put away his wife.”
    1. Only divorce under exceptional and irreconcilable circumstances. De 24:1 – “When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.” (J) Mt 5:32a – “But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery:“
    2. Do not remarry your former wife after she has remarried another. De 24:4 – “Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.” (J) Mt 5:32b – “and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.“
12. Wives, do not leave your husband: 1Co 6:10 – “And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:”
    1. but if you do, you must remain unmarried or reconcile with your husband. 1Co 6:11 – “But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.”
    2. just because he is an unbeliever. 1Co 6:13 – “And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.”
    3. unless he maims you, then you are free to go. Ex 21:26-27 – “And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake. And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.” *
13. If your spouse abandons the marriage, let them go in peace. 1Co 6:15 – “But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.” Ex 21:10-11 “If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.” *
14. Dedicate your firstborn son to God. Ex 13:2 – “Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.” *

Sex

1. Men, do not have sex with another man’s wife. Ex 20:14 – “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” De 22:22 –
   1. Consider adultery worthy of the death penalty. “If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.” De 22:23-24 “If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour’s wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.“ De 22:25 – “But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:” 
   2. Equivalently: Wives, do not have sex outside of marriage. Ro 7:3 – “So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.”
   3. Do not even intend to have sex with another man’s wife. Mt 5:28 – “But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.“
2. Do not engage in extra-marital sex. 1Co 6:18 – “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.” He 13:4 – “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
3. Do not engage in homosexuality. Le 18:22 – “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.”
   1. Consider homosexuality worth of the death penalty. Le 20:13 – “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”
4. Do not engage in bestiality. Le 18:23 – “Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.” De 27:21 – “Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.”
   1. Consider bestiality worth of the death penalty. Le 20:15-16 – “And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”
5. Do not cause your daughter to become a prostitute. Le 19:29 – “Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.”
6. A man who has sex with an unbetrothed virgin must pay her father $100,000, marry her if her father consents, and may never divorce her. De 22:28-29 – “If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.” *  Ex 22:16–17 – “And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.”
7. A woman must disclose pre-marital sex before betrothal. De 22:20-21 – “But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.”
8. A wife must not grab the exposed genitals of a man fighting with her husband. De 25:11-12 – “When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.” *
9. Men, do not have sex with, or even uncover the genitals of next of kin. Le 18:6 – “None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.”
   1. Your father or mother. Le 18:7 – “The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.”
   2. Your mother-in-law. De 27:23 – “Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.”
      1. Consider this sin worthy of the death penalty. Le 20:14 – “And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.”
   3. Your stepmother. Le 18:8 – “The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.” De 22:30 – “A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.” De 27:20 – “Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.”
      1. Consider this sin worthy of the death penalty. Le 20:11 “And the man that lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”
   4. Your sister. Le 18:9 – “The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.” De 27:22 – “Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.”
      1. Consider this sin worthy of the death penalty. Le 20:17 – “And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.”
   5. Your sister-in-law. Le 20:21 – “And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.”
   6. Your granddaughter. Le 18:10 – “The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for their’s is thine own nakedness.”
   7. Your half-sister. Le 18:11 – “The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.”
   8. Your father’s sister. Le 18:12 – “Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she is thy father’s near kinswoman.”
   9. Your mother’s sister. Le 18:13 – “Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: for she is thy mother’s near kinswoman.”
   10. Your father’s brother. Le 18:14a – “Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother,“
   11. Your aunt. Le 20:19 – “And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.” Le 18:14 – “Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.”
       1.  Consider this sin worthy of the death penalty. Le 20:20 – “And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.”
   12. Your daughter-in-law. Le 18:15 – “Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.”
       1. Consider this sin worthy of the death penalty. Le 20:12 – “And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.”
   13. Your brother’s wife. Le 18:16 – “Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.”
   14. Your stepdaughter or step-granddaughter. Le 18:17 – “Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.”
   15. The sister of your wife, while your wife is alive. Le 18:18 – “Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.”

Relational

1. Do not kill. Ex 20:13 – “Thou shalt not kill.”
   1. Promote the death penalty for first degree murder. Ge 9:6 – “Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.” * Ex 21:12 – “He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.”
   2. Promote probation for involuntary manslaughter. Ex 21:13 – “And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.” De 19:3-4 – “Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither. And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;“
   3. Do not kill the innocent for hire. De 27:25 – “Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
   4. Do not abort unborn children. Ex 21:22 – “If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.”
2. Do not steal. Ex 20:15 – “Thou shalt not steal.”
   1. By altering property boundaries. De 19:14 – “Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.” De 27:17 – “Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.”
   2. By lying about another’s possessions. Le 6:2-3 – “If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour; or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:” 
   3. By dealing falsely or dishonestly. Le 19:11 – “Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.“
   4. By having inconsistent measurements. Le 19:35–36 – “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.” De 25:13-16 – “Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.”
   5. By kidnapping. Ex 21:16 – “And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.” De 24:7 – “If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.”
3. Promote restoration of stolen property with a penalty:
   1. Recoverable low-value property at 120%. Le 6:4-5 – “Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.”
   2. Recoverable valuable property at 200%. Ex 22:4 – “If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.” Ex 21:7-9 – “If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief be found, let him pay double. If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods. For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.”
   3. Irrecoverable property: Ex 22:1 – “If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it;”
      1. at 500% for hi-value property. – “he shall restore five oxen for an ox,”
         
      2. at 400% for valuable property. – “and four sheep for a sheep.”
4. Do not covet. Ex 20:17 – “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.”
5. Do not testify falsely. Ex 20:16 – “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” Ex 23:1 – “Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.”
6. Speak to edify others. Ep 4:29 – “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.” Co 4:6 – “Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”
   1. Do not lie. Le 19:11 – “Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.“ Co 3:9 – “Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;”
   2. Speak the truth in love. Ep 4:15 –“But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:” Ep 4:25 – “Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.”
   3. Do not gossip. Le 19:16 – “Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.”
   4. Be transparent and authentic with unbelievers about who you are and what you value. Ep 5:11-13 – “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.“
      • (J) Let your light shine. Mt 5:16 – “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.“
   5. Be prepared to give a reasonable defense of your faith. 1Pe 3:15 – “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.”
7. Be generous with the poor. Le 19:9–10 – “And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.” Le 25:35 – “And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.” Lk 6:38 – “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.”
   1. Encourage society to provide food for the vulnerable. De 24:12-13 – “At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.”
   2. Be lenient in lending to the poor. De 24:6 – “No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.” Ex 22:26-27 – “If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: for that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.” De 24:12-13 – “And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: in any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.”
   3. Don’t charge interest to poor believers. Ex 22:25 – “If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.” De 23:19-21 – “Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.”
8. Pay debts promptly. Le 19:13 – “Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.” Pr 3:27 – “Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.”
9. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. 1Pe 2:17a – “Honour all men.”
   1. Deal honestly with everyone. Ro 12:17b – “Provide things honest in the sight of all men.”
   2. Respect the elderly. Le 19:32 – “Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.”
   3. Do not oppress or vex foreigners. Le 19:33–34 – “And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.” Ex 22:21 – “Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.”
   4. Do not oppress the poor and needy. De 24:15-15 – “Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: at his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.” 
   5. Do not take advantage of or oppress the vulnerable. Le 19:14 – “Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.” Ex 22:22 – “Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.” De 27:18-19 – “Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.”
   6. Do not extort. De 22:6-7 –“If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: but thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.” 1Co 6:9-10 – “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
   7. Be impartial, fair and unbiased in personal discernment. Le 19:15 – “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.” Ja 2:1 – “My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.”
   8. Do not accept bribes. De 16:19 – “Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.” Ex 23:8 – “And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.”
10. Follow peace with all people. He 12:14 – “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:” Ro 12:18 – “If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.”
    1. Do not harbor hatred or ill will. Le 19:17 – “Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.” Mt 5:22 – “But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.”
    2. Do not avenge yourself or bear a grudge. Le 19:18a – “Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people.” Ro 12:17 – “Recompense to no man evil for evil.” Ja 5:9 – “Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.”
    3. Seek reconciliation with those in community with you who sin against you. Mt 18:15-18 – “Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.“
    4. Forgive those who wrong you. Mk 11:25 – “And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
11. Seek justice. Mi 6:8 – “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”
    1. Be impartial in settling disputes. Ex 23:3 – “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:” Ex 23:6 – “Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.”
    2. Restore lost possessions to the rightful owner. Ex 23:4 – “If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.” De 22:1-3 – “Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother. And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again. In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother’s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.”
    3. Do not punish children for their parents’ faults, nor parents for their children’s faults. De 24:16 – “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.”
    4. Recompense and restore others when you harm them. Ex 21:18–19 – “And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.”
    5. Voluntarily recompense more than what is required. Mt 3: 39-41 – “But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.“
    6. Forgive homicide committed in self-defense. Ex 22:2 – “If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.”
    7. Require multiple witnesses before indicting someone. De 19:15 – “One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.”
    8. Do not endorse dehumanizing punishment. De 25:3 – “Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.“
    9. Endorse injuries to criminals commensurate with their crimes. Ex 21:23-25 – “And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.”
    10. Consider a false witness worthy of the penalty they sought for their victim. De 19:16-20 – “If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.”
12. Help stranded travelers. Ex 23:5 – “If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.” De 22:4 – Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.”
13. Respect the private residences of others. De 24:10–12 – “When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.”
14. Value and protect the property of others as if it were your own. Ex 22:10-15 – “If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it: then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good. And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn. And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good. But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.”
15. Honor dignitaries and civil servants. Ex 22:28 – “Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.” 1Pe 2:17b – “ Fear God. Honour the king.”
16. Respect women as the weaker vessel. Ex 21:7 – “And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.” * 1Pe 3:7 – “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”
17. Do not tantalize. De 25:4 – “Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.”
18. Pay taxes as required by legitimate government authority. Ro 13:7 – “Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.” Mt 22:21 – “They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.”
19. Promote families and personal industry. Ge 1:28 – “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” *
    1. Consider gender-confusion abominable. De 22:5 – “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.”
    2. Avoid incompatible relationships. 2Co 6:14 – “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?” Le 19:19 – “Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.” De 22:9-11 – “Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled. Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.“
20. Take reasonable preventative measures. De 22:8 – “When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.”
    1. Promote stoning to death animals which attack and kill someone. Ex 21:28 – “If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.”
       1. If the owner knew the animal was dangerous consider the owner worthy of death. Ex 21:29 – “But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.”
       2. Promote a guilty owner recompensing the victim’s family as they require in order to redeem his own life. Ex 21:30-31 – “If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.” *
       3. If the victims don’t die, promote fining the owner $60,000 to cover damages. Ex 21:32 – “If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.” *
    2. Consider harm due to negligence worthy of commensurate recompense. Ex 21:33-36 – “And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein; the owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his. And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide. Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.” Ex 22:6 – “If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.”
    3. Consider intentional defrauding of property worthy of superior recompense. Ex 22:5 – “If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.”
21. Remove fruit from fruit trees as soon as it appears for the first three years, and in the fourth year share it joyfully with others. Le 19:23–24 – “And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of. But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal.”
22. Consider gross immorality worthy of the death penalty. Ro 1:32 – “Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.” Pr 14:34 – “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”
    1. Witchcraft: Ex 22:18 – “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” Le 20:27 – “A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.”
    2. Cursing a parent: Le 20:9 – “For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.”
23. Promote an agricultural sabbatical year. Ex 23:10-11 – “And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.” *
24. Hold members of spiritual community accountable for oaths / promises. Le 5:1 – “And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.” *