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I now present the complete, unified manuscript — everything gathered and aligned, beginning with Joshua 1:8, and continuing through the seven pillars, each containing the fullness of the law from all sources. This is designed for you to copy and create a single book.

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the Wisdom OF the Righteous

THIS Wisdom OF the Law shall not depart from your mouth

This scroll of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have success.

— Joshua 1:8

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the Complete Law and Testimony

The Constitution of the Kingdom of Yahuwah

Containing the Commandments, Statutes, Judgments, and Words of Yahuwah Elohim as delivered through Mosheh and the Prophets, as preserved in the Torah, the Writings, the Apocrypha, and the Pseudepigrapha, and as fulfilled and magnified by Yahusha Ha'Mashiach in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Thomas.

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Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out her seven pillars.

— Proverbs 9:1

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the Seven Pillars

1. Love — The foundation of all: loving Yahuwah with the whole being, and loving the neighbor as oneself. Every commandment is an expression of love.

2. Life — The path of life: the commandments that preserve, protect, and define the way of life. Choosing life through obedience.

3. Loyalty — The covenant bond: exclusive allegiance to Yahuwah, loyalty to His name, His sanctuary, His people, and the marriage covenant.

4. Knowledge — The body of instruction: the statutes, precepts, and written record to be learned, taught, and meditated upon day and night.

5. WISDOM — The skillful application: the practical outworking of the law in daily life, judgment, restitution, speech, and community.

6. Understanding — The spirit behind the letter: the heart of the law revealed by Yahusha, inner purity, and the perception of the kingdom within.

7. Faith — The anchor of trust: confidence in Yahuwah's promises, faithfulness unto death, reliance on His judgment, and the hope of resurrection.

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the Sources

· The Torah: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

· The Prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve

· The Writings: Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Daniel, Ecclesiastes, and the scrolls of wisdom

· The Apocrypha: Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, Baruch, 1 to 4 Maccabees, and additions

· The Pseudepigrapha: 1 Enoch, 2 Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher

· The Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John

· The Gospel of Thomas

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the Purpose OF THIS Wisdom

This body of work is not a book for casual study. It is a constitution for the people of the covenant, a complete rule of faith and practice. It is designed for continuous recitation — to be spoken aloud, heard by the ear, and inscribed upon the heart. The arrangement under the seven pillars allows the listener to perceive every commandment from every dimension, until the law is no longer external but written within.

For the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. Choose life, that you and your descendants may live.

— Deuteronomy 30:14, 19

He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

— Proverbs 28:9

Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the Torah till all is fulfilled.

— Matthew 5:17 to 18

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

— Matthew 24:35

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Let this Scroll not depart from your mouth. Meditate on it day and night. Let it saturate your consciousness until the words speak themselves through you. The law is not a burden to be borne; it is the constitution of the Kingdom, the path of life, the expression of love, and the eternal word of the living Elohim.

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the Seven Pillars OF the Wisdom

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Pillar I: Love

The entire law viewed through its first and greatest dimension: Love for Yahuwah with all heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love for neighbor as oneself. Every command, statute, and judgment is an instruction in love. Every word of Yahusha reveals the heart of love. Love is the foundation on which all else stands. Without love, obedience is empty. With love, obedience is life.

the Great Commandments OF Love

From the Gospel of Yahusha: You shall love Yahuwah your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Torah and the Prophets. (Matthew 22:37 to 40)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: Therefore all things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you even so to them: for this is the Torah and the Prophets. (Matthew 7:12)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another. (John 13:34 to 35)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. (John 15:13)

From Leviticus: You shall not take vengeance nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am Yahuwah. (Leviticus 19:18)

From Deuteronomy: You shall love Yahuwah your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words which I command you this day shall be in your heart. And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. (Deuteronomy 6:5 to 7)

From the Gospel of Thomas: Love your brother like your own soul; guard him as the apple of your eye. (Saying 25)

From the Gospel of Thomas: Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of heaven. (Saying 54)

Love for Yahoo-wah — Exclusive WORSHIP and Devotion

From Exodus: No other gods before Yahuwah. This is the love of exclusive devotion, the heart that gives its worship to no other. (Exodus 20:3)

From Exodus: No carved images or idols; do not worship them. Love does not reduce the Creator to a creation. (Exodus 20:4 to 5)

From Exodus: Do not make gods of silver or gold. Love treasures Yahuwah above all wealth. (Exodus 20:23)

From Exodus: Do not misuse the name of Yahuwah Elohim. Love speaks the Beloved's name with reverence. (Exodus 20:7)

From Exodus: Do not bow down to the gods of the land or follow their practices; demolish their sacred stones. Love tears down every rival. (Exodus 23:24)

From Exodus: Do not make a covenant with the nations or their gods. They must not live in your land, or they will cause you to sin. Love guards the relationship from all that would defile it. (Exodus 23:32 to 33)

From Exodus: Sacrifice to other gods: complete destruction. Love is jealous for the Beloved. (Exodus 22:20)

From Leviticus: No idols or molten gods. (Leviticus 19:4)

From Leviticus: Do not make idols, set up sacred pillars, or place figured stones. (Leviticus 26:1)

From Deuteronomy: Demolish all places where other nations worshiped their gods — break altars, smash sacred pillars, burn idols. Love purges the land of every false devotion. (Deuteronomy 12:2 to 3)

From Deuteronomy: Do not worship Yahuwah in the same manner as the pagans worship their gods. Love approaches the Holy One on His terms, not borrowed customs. (Deuteronomy 12:4)

From Deuteronomy: Worship only at the place Yahuwah chooses from among the tribes. Love seeks the place where Yahuwah places His name. (Deuteronomy 12:5 to 6)

From Deuteronomy: A prophet who performs a sign but leads you to follow other gods is false — do not listen. Love tests every spirit against the known word of the Beloved. (Deuteronomy 13:1 to 3)

From Deuteronomy: Even if a family member or closest friend entices you to serve other gods, do not yield; put him to death. Love for Yahuwah surpasses even the dearest earthly bonds. (Deuteronomy 13:6 to 10)

From Deuteronomy: If a city has turned to other gods, investigate thoroughly. If true, strike the city with the sword and burn it completely. It must never be rebuilt. Love for Yahuwah does not tolerate competing kingdoms. (Deuteronomy 13:12 to 16)

From Deuteronomy: Do not learn the abominations of the nations: child sacrifice, divination, soothsaying, interpreting omens, sorcery, casting spells, mediums, spiritists, or consulting the dead. You must be blameless before Yahuwah. Love does not dabble in darkness. (Deuteronomy 18:9 to 13)

From 2 Enoch: Do not turn away from Elohim. Walk before His face, and keep His commandments.

From 2 Enoch: Guard your souls from every kind of injustice, such as Yahuwah hates. Walk in front of His face with fear and trembling, and worship Him alone.

From Jubilees: A man who gives his daughter or his sister to any man of the nations shall surely die. Love preserves the covenant seed from mixture. (Jubilees)

From the Apocrypha — Wisdom of Solomon: Love righteousness, you rulers of the earth; think of Yahuwah with a good heart, and in simplicity of heart seek Him. For He is found by those who do not put Him to the test, and manifests Himself to those who do not distrust Him. (Wisdom 1:1 to 2)

From the Apocrypha — Sirach: The love of Yahuwah is honorable wisdom. To whom He shows Himself, He apportions her in the sight of the mighty. The fear of Yahuwah is the beginning of wisdom. (Sirach 1:10, 14)

From 1 Maccabees: Mattathias and his sons fled to the mountains and left all that they had in the city. At that time many who were seeking righteousness and justice went down to the wilderness to dwell there. Love for Yahuwah drove the faithful to forsake all rather than compromise. (1 Maccabees 2:28 to 29)

From 2 Maccabees: The mother of the seven sons encouraged each one to die rather than transgress the laws of the fathers. Love for Yahuwah proved stronger than the love of life itself. (2 Maccabees 7)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: You shall worship Yahuwah your Elohim, and Him only shall you serve. (Matthew 4:10)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: 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. You cannot serve Elohim and mammon. (Matthew 6:24)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: Seek first the kingdom of Elohim and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. (Matthew 6:33)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: The true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship Him. Elohim is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. (John 4:23 to 24)

Love Expressed through the Sabbath and Holy Convocations

From Exodus: Remember the Sabbath day, keep it holy. Six days labor, the seventh rest — no one in your household may work. The Sabbath is the day of restful intimacy, a sign of love between Yahuwah and His people. (Exodus 20:8 to 10)

From Exodus: Sabbatical year: let the land rest every seventh year; the poor and wild animals may eat what grows. Love gives rest to the earth and provision to the needy. (Exodus 23:10 to 11)

From Exodus: Keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread. Love remembers the deliverance from bondage. (Exodus 23:14 to 15)

From Exodus: Keep the Festival of Harvest (Firstfruits/Weeks). Love brings the first of the increase to the Giver. (Exodus 23:16)

From Exodus: Keep the Festival of Ingathering (Tabernacles) at year-end. Love rejoices in the abundance of the household of Yahuwah. (Exodus 23:16)

From Leviticus: Respect parents and keep Sabbaths. Love for parents and love for the Sabbath are joined together. (Leviticus 19:3)

From Leviticus: Keep the Sabbaths and revere Yahuwah's sanctuary. Love honors the holy place. (Leviticus 19:30)

From Deuteronomy: Keep the Passover: sacrifice in the place Yahuwah chooses. Eat unleavened bread for seven days. No leaven to be seen throughout the land. Love removes the leaven of sin from the home. (Deuteronomy 16:1 to 8)

From Deuteronomy: Keep the Festival of Weeks: count seven weeks from the start of the harvest, then celebrate with freewill offerings. Love gives freely in proportion to the blessing received. (Deuteronomy 16:9 to 10)

From Deuteronomy: Keep the Festival of Tabernacles: rejoice for seven days after the ingathering. Love culminates in joy. (Deuteronomy 16:13 to 15)

From Jubilees: Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath of Yahuwah your Elohim. The man who does any work on it shall die. (Jubilees)

From Jubilees: On the Sabbath do no work, no lying with your wife, no planning a journey or buying/selling, no drawing water not prepared on the sixth day, no carrying a burden, no lighting a fire, no riding an animal, no traveling by ship, no killing or slaughtering, no fasting, and no making war. Love rests completely from the affairs of the world. (Jubilees)

From Jubilees: Permitted on the Sabbath: the sacred service of the sanctuary — burning frankincense, bringing oblations and sacrifices to atone for Israel. Love continues in the service of intercession. (Jubilees)

From Jubilees: Celebrate the feast of weeks in this month once a year, to renew the covenant every year. Love renews the bond regularly. (Jubilees)

From Jasher: In the third month, on the sixth day thereof, Yahuwah gave to Israel the ten commandments on Mount Sinai. (Jasher)

From Jasher: Yahuwah wrote the ten commandments upon two tablets of stone. (Jasher)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath: therefore the Son of Man is Master even of the Sabbath. Love understands that the Sabbath is a gift, not a burden. (Mark 2:27 to 28)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. Love heals and restores on the day of rest. (Matthew 12:12)

Love Expressed through Reverence for the Sanctuary and Offerings

From Exodus: Make an altar of earth for sacrifices. Wherever Yahuwah chooses to place His name, He will come and bless. Love builds a simple place for meeting. (Exodus 20:24)

From Exodus: If you use stones, do not cut them with a chisel. Love does not embellish the altar with human craftsmanship. (Exodus 20:25)

From Exodus: Do not approach the altar by stairs, so that your nakedness not be uncovered. Love covers the flesh in the presence of holiness. (Exodus 20:26)

From Exodus: Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice with anything leavened. The fat of the festival sacrifice must not remain until morning. Love does not mix corruption with the offering. (Exodus 23:18)

From Exodus: Bring the choice firstfruits to the House of Yahuwah. Love gives the best, not the leftovers. (Exodus 23:19)

From Leviticus: Peace offerings: eat on the day of offering or next day; any leftover on the third day must be burned. Love shares the fellowship meal promptly. (Leviticus 19:5 to 8)

From Leviticus: Do not eat blood. Love respects the life that belongs to Yahuwah. (Leviticus 17:10 to 14)

From Numbers: The priestly blessing: "Yahuwah bless you and keep you; Yahuwah make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you; Yahuwah lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace." Love pronounces blessing, not curse. (Numbers 6:24 to 26)

From Numbers: Take a flawless red heifer that has never borne a yoke, slaughter it outside the camp, sprinkle its blood seven times toward the tent of meeting, and burn it wholly with cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet thread. Love provides purification from the defilement of death. (Numbers 19:2 to 6)

From Numbers: Gather the ashes and mix with running water to create water of cleansing. Love makes the remedy available. (Numbers 19:9)

From Numbers: Anyone who touches a corpse, a bone, a grave, or is in a tent where someone died is unclean for seven days and must be cleansed with this water. Love restores the defiled to the community. (Numbers 19:11 to 12)

From Deuteronomy: Bring burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, and offerings to the place Yahuwah chooses. Love brings everything to the appointed place. (Deuteronomy 12:11)

From Deuteronomy: May slaughter animals for common meat anywhere, but never eat the blood (pour it out like water). Love respects the life even in common meals. (Deuteronomy 12:15 to 16)

From Deuteronomy: Do not eat anything that dies naturally (you may give it to the foreigner). Love makes a distinction between the holy and the common. (Deuteronomy 14:21)

From Deuteronomy: The Levite priests have no inheritance of land; Yahuwah is their inheritance. They shall eat the offerings by fire and the firstfruits. Love provides for those who serve at the altar. (Deuteronomy 18:1 to 5)

From Jubilees: Do not eat flesh with the life thereof, with the blood; for the life of all flesh is in the blood. (Jubilees)

From Jubilees: The man who eats the blood of beast or of cattle or of birds — he and his seed shall be rooted out of the land. (Jubilees)

From Jubilees: The tithe of the tithe belongs to the priests. Love supports the priesthood. (Jubilees)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: If you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you; leave there your gift before the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Love prioritizes reconciliation over ritual. (Matthew 5:23 to 24)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: This poor widow has cast in more than all they which have cast into the treasury: for all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living. Love gives all. (Mark 12:43 to 44)

Love Expressed through Justice and RIGHTEOUS Judgment

From Exodus: Do not spread false reports or join with the wicked. Love speaks truth and refuses to partner with evil. (Exodus 23:1)

From Exodus: Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. Love has the courage to stand alone. (Exodus 23:2)

From Exodus: Do not favor the poor in a lawsuit. Love is impartial; it does not pervert justice out of sentiment. (Exodus 23:3)

From Exodus: Do not pervert justice for the poor. Love does not exploit the vulnerable even as it does not favor them. (Exodus 23:6)

From Exodus: Do not accept a bribe, which blinds the clear-sighted. Love cannot be purchased. (Exodus 23:8)

From Exodus: Do not oppress a foreigner; you know what it is like to be a foreigner in Egypt. Love remembers its own former affliction and extends compassion. (Exodus 23:9)

From Exodus: Premeditated killing: death penalty. Love protects the innocent by punishing the murderer. (Exodus 21:12 to 14)

From Exodus: Accidental killing: flee to a City of Refuge. Love provides mercy for the unintentional offender. (Exodus 21:13)

From Exodus: Injury from a fight: offender pays medical bills and lost time. Love makes restitution for harm. (Exodus 21:18 to 19)

From Exodus: If a slave dies from a beating, the owner is punished. Love limits the power of the master. (Exodus 21:20)

From Exodus: Injury to a pregnant woman causing premature birth: fine. If further injury occurs: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Love protects the unborn and limits retaliation to equal measure. (Exodus 21:22 to 25)

From Exodus: If a master damages a slave's eye or tooth, the slave must be freed. Love values the body and freedom of the servant. (Exodus 21:26 to 27)

From Exodus: An ox that gores a person to death is stoned; owner innocent unless the ox had a history of goring and the owner failed to restrain it (then owner may be killed or pay ransom). Love holds accountable those who neglect the safety of others. (Exodus 21:28 to 32)

From Exodus: If an ox gores another ox: live ox sold, money split; dead ox split. If owner negligent, he pays full restitution. Love governs even the losses of livestock with equity. (Exodus 21:35 to 36)

From Exodus: Stealing an ox to restore five oxen; stealing a sheep to restore four sheep. Love requires full restitution to the one who has suffered loss. (Exodus 22:1)

From Exodus: A thief killed at night may be defended; after sunrise, bloodguilt. Love distinguishes between self-defense and excessive force. (Exodus 22:2 to 3)

From Exodus: If a thief cannot repay, he is sold for his theft. Love ensures that the debt is paid. (Exodus 22:3)

From Exodus: Restitution for damaged crops or pasture. Love makes whole what has been damaged. (Exodus 22:5)

From Exodus: Borrowed property destroyed while owner present to restitution; if owner absent, full restitution required. Love is responsible for what is entrusted to it. (Exodus 22:14 to 15)

From Exodus: Do not curse rulers or revile leaders. Love respects the authorities Yahuwah has placed. (Exodus 22:28)

From Leviticus: Do not pervert justice: do not be partial to the poor or defer to the great; judge righteously. Love is the foundation of true judgment. (Leviticus 19:15)

From Leviticus: Do not slander or endanger your neighbor's life. Love guards reputation and safety. (Leviticus 19:16)

From Leviticus: Do not cheat in measurements (length, weight, volume). Use honest scales. Love deals honestly in all transactions. (Leviticus 19:35 to 36)

From Numbers: If a husband suspects his wife of infidelity without witness: bring her to the priest with a barley flour offering. The priest makes bitter water; if guilty, she is cursed; if innocent, she is unharmed and will bear children. Love provides a way for the truth to be revealed and the innocent to be vindicated. (Numbers 5:11 to 31)

From Numbers: Set aside six Cities of Refuge for unintentional killers to flee from the avenger of blood. Love provides a place of safety for the one who killed without intent. (Numbers 35:9 to 15)

From Deuteronomy: Appoint judges and officers in all your towns. Do not pervert justice, show partiality, or take a bribe. Love establishes righteous governance. (Deuteronomy 16:18 to 20)

From Deuteronomy: Difficult cases shall be brought to the central sanctuary and the Levitical priest or judge in office. Their verdict is final; anyone acting presumptuously must be put to death. Love respects the final authority of the appointed judges. (Deuteronomy 17:8 to 13)

From Deuteronomy: One witness is insufficient; every matter must be confirmed by two or three witnesses. Love protects against false accusation. (Deuteronomy 19:15)

From Deuteronomy: A false witness receives the same punishment he sought for the accused. Love ensures that malice returns upon the head of the malicious. (Deuteronomy 19:16 to 21)

From Deuteronomy: Premeditated murderers are to be taken from the altar and put to death. Love does not let the sanctuary shield the guilty. (Deuteronomy 19:11 to 13)

From Deuteronomy: Set aside three Cities of Refuge for the unintentional killer. If Yahuwah enlarges your borders, add three more. Love makes mercy accessible. (Deuteronomy 19:1 to 10)

From Deuteronomy: If a slain person is found and the killer unknown, the elders and judges measure distance to nearby cities. The elders of the nearest city break a heifer's neck in an unworked valley, wash their hands, and declare innocence. Love atones for the land and clears the innocent. (Deuteronomy 21:1 to 9)

From Deuteronomy: Kidnapping: death penalty. Love protects the free person from being stolen and sold. (Deuteronomy 24:7)

From Jasher: Yahuwah instructed Moses in statutes and judgments in order to teach the children of Israel. (Jasher)

From Jasher: Moses came to the children of Israel and spoke to them all the words of Yahuwah, and he taught them laws, statutes, and judgments which Yahuwah had taught him. (Jasher)

From Jasher: Yahuwah gave to the children of Israel statutes and judgments in Marah, and Yahuwah commanded the children of Israel to walk in all His ways and to serve Him. (Jasher)

From 1 Enoch: All these things will be laid bare in the weighing-scales and in the books, on the day of the great judgment. Love knows that every act will be weighed. (1 Enoch)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again. Love judges itself before it judges another. (Matthew 7:1 to 2)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment. Love sees beyond the surface. (John 7:24)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are in the way with him. Love seeks peace before the conflict escalates. (Matthew 5:25)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: Every matter must be established by the mouth of two or three witnesses. (Matthew 18:16)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Love does not advance the kingdom through violence. (Matthew 26:52)

From the Gospel of Thomas: Do not lie, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of heaven. (Saying 6)

Love Expressed through Care for the Vulnerable — the Foreigner, the Widow, the Orphan, the Poor, the Slave

From Exodus: Do not mistreat foreigners, widows, or orphans; Yahuwah will hear their cry and His wrath will kill you. Love is measured by how it treats the most vulnerable. (Exodus 22:21 to 24)

From Exodus: Do not charge interest to the poor. If you take a cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset. Love does not profit from poverty; love returns the pledge before the night cold. (Exodus 22:25 to 27)

From Exodus: Hebrew slave serves six years, goes free in the seventh without payment. Love sets a limit on servitude. (Exodus 21:2)

From Exodus: If married upon arrival, wife leaves with him; if master gave him a wife and she bore children, wife and children remain with master. Love respects the bonds of the slave's family. (Exodus 21:3 to 4)

From Exodus: Slave may choose to stay permanently; master pierces his ear with an awl at the door, and he serves for life. Love can be so strong that the servant chooses to remain with the master forever. (Exodus 21:5 to 6)

From Exodus: A daughter sold into slavery does not go free as a male slave. Her master must ensure food, clothing, and marital rights if he takes her as a wife. Love protects the rights of the female servant. (Exodus 21:7 to 11)

From Leviticus: Leave the corners of your field for the poor and the sojourner. Leave fallen fruit for them. Love deliberately leaves provision for those who have none. (Leviticus 19:9 to 10)

From Leviticus: Do not oppress or rob your neighbor; pay wages promptly. Love pays the worker on time. (Leviticus 19:13)

From Leviticus: Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind. Love protects those who cannot perceive danger. (Leviticus 19:14)

From Leviticus: Do not wrong a foreigner; treat him as a native, love him as yourself. Love extends the same measure to the stranger as to the native-born. (Leviticus 19:33 to 34)

From Deuteronomy: Every third year, store the tithe within your towns for the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow. Love builds a storehouse for those who have no inheritance. (Deuteronomy 14:28 to 29)

From Deuteronomy: Every seventh year, release all debts owed by fellow Israelites (foreigners may still be pressed). Love cancels the burden of debt at the appointed time. (Deuteronomy 15:1 to 3)

From Deuteronomy: If a fellow Hebrew sells himself to you, he serves six years; in the seventh year set him free with generous provisions. Love does not send the freed slave away empty-handed. (Deuteronomy 15:12 to 15)

From Deuteronomy: Do not take a mill or an upper millstone as a pledge. Love does not take as security that which sustains life. (Deuteronomy 24:6)

From Deuteronomy: Pay a hired worker promptly. Love does not withhold the wages of the laborer. (Deuteronomy 24:14 to 15)

From Deuteronomy: Do not pervert justice for the foreigner or fatherless; do not take a widow's garment in pledge. Love does not exploit the legal vulnerability of the defenseless. (Deuteronomy 24:17 to 18)

From Deuteronomy: Leave some harvest behind for the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. Love leaves a deliberate remnant in the field. (Deuteronomy 24:19 to 22)

From 2 Enoch: Injure not widows nor orphans nor strangers, lest Elohim's wrath come upon you. (2 Enoch)

From the Apocrypha — Tobit: Give alms from your possessions, and when you give alms, let not your eye be grudging. Turn not your face away from any poor man, and the face of Elohim shall not be turned away from you. Love gives with a willing eye. (Tobit 4:7)

From the Apocrypha — Sirach: Stretch out your hand to the poor, so that your blessing may be complete. The kindness of a man is better than a locked-up treasury. Love opens the hand and the heart. (Sirach 7:32)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: I was hungry, and you gave me food: I was thirsty, and you gave me drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in: naked, and you clothed me: I was sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me. Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me. Love serves Yahusha in every sufferer. (Matthew 25:35 to 36, 40)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry, and you gave me food. (Matthew 25:34 to 35)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was hungry, and you gave me no food. Love's absence is the mark of the cursed. (Matthew 25:41 to 42)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: When you make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and you shall be blessed; for they cannot repay you: for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just. Love gives without expectation of return. (Luke 14:13 to 14)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: Give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow from you turn not away. Love's hand is always open. (Matthew 5:42)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: The Spirit of Yahuwah is upon me, because He has anointed me to preach good news to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of Yahuwah. Love is the anointing to proclaim freedom. (Luke 4:18 to 19)

From the Gospel of Thomas: If you have money, do not lend it at interest, but give it to one from whom you will not get it back. (Saying 95)

Love Expressed through Sexual Purity and the HONOR OF Marriage

From Exodus: Do not commit adultery. Love is faithful to the marriage covenant. (Exodus 20:14)

From Exodus: Seduction of unbetrothed virgin: pay bride price and marry her; if father refuses, pay the money. Love takes responsibility for its actions. (Exodus 22:16 to 17)

From Exodus: Bestiality: death penalty. Love does not corrupt the natural order. (Exodus 22:19)

From Leviticus: Sexual sin with a slave woman: punishment but not death; a guilt offering required. Love makes atonement even for sins committed in unequal relationships. (Leviticus 19:20 to 22)

From Leviticus: Do not make your daughter a prostitute. Love protects the purity of the family. (Leviticus 19:29)

From Leviticus: You shall be holy, for I, Yahuwah Elohim, am holy. Love is the root of holiness. (Leviticus 19:2)

From Deuteronomy: Right of the firstborn: a man with two wives cannot give the firstborn's double portion to the son of the loved wife if the real firstborn is the son of the unloved wife. Love is just even when affection is uneven. (Deuteronomy 21:15 to 17)

From Deuteronomy: Rebellious son: if a son is stubborn, gluttonous, drunkard, and refuses discipline, parents bring him to the city elders, who stone him. Love disciplines the household before the rebellion destroys the community. (Deuteronomy 21:18 to 21)

From Deuteronomy: Marrying a captive woman: allow her to mourn for a month, then she becomes your wife. If you later divorce her, you cannot sell her or treat her as a slave. Love grants dignity to the captive and does not exploit her. (Deuteronomy 21:10 to 14)

From Deuteronomy: A newlywed husband is exempt from military service for one year to make his wife happy. Love gives priority to the joy of the new marriage. (Deuteronomy 24:5)

From Jubilees: A man who lies with his father's wife — they shall both die. Love does not defile the bed of the father. (Jubilees)

From Jubilees: There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, and no whoremonger of the sons of Israel. Love preserves the purity of the nation. (Jubilees)

From Jubilees: Observe righteousness, cover the shame of your flesh, bless your Creator, honor father and mother, love your neighbor, and guard your souls from fornication and uncleanness and all iniquity. (Jubilees)

From the Apocrypha — Tobit: Beware of all whoredom. Take a wife of the seed of your fathers, and take not a strange wife, which is not of your father's tribe. Love marries within the covenant. (Tobit 4:12)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: Have you not read, that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and the two shall be one flesh? What therefore Elohim has joined together, let not man put asunder. Love honors the original design. (Matthew 19:4 to 6)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: Whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her that is divorced commits adultery. Love does not treat the marriage bond as disposable. (Matthew 19:9)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: You have heard that it was said by them of old time, You shall not commit adultery: but I say unto you, That whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. Love purifies the heart, not just the act. (Matthew 5:27 to 28)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into Gehenna. Love is ruthless with whatever leads to sin. (Matthew 5:29)

Love Expressed through Holiness in Body, Diet, and Daily Practices

From Exodus: Do not eat torn flesh (meat from an animal killed by wild beasts) — throw it to the dogs. Love does not consume what is unclean. (Exodus 22:31)

From Exodus: Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk. Love does not use the milk of the mother to cook her offspring. (Exodus 23:19)

From Leviticus: No mixed breeding, sowing, or clothing (separation of kinds). Love respects the boundaries Yahuwah has set in creation. (Leviticus 19:19)

From Leviticus: Fruit trees: three years forbidden; fourth year holy, a praise offering to Yahuwah; fifth year you may eat. Love waits for the fruit to be released by Yahuwah. (Leviticus 19:23 to 25)

From Leviticus: Do not interpret omens or practice soothsaying. Love trusts Yahuwah's guidance, not hidden signs. (Leviticus 19:26)

From Leviticus: Do not round off the side-growth of your heads or mar the edges of your beard. Love keeps the body as Yahuwah designed it. (Leviticus 19:27)

From Leviticus: No cutting for the dead (ritual gashes). Love does not mourn like those without hope. (Leviticus 19:28)

From Leviticus: Do not turn to mediums or spiritists. Love seeks the living among the living, not the dead. (Leviticus 19:31)

From Leviticus: Rise before the gray-headed and honor the elderly. Love gives honor to age. (Leviticus 19:32)

From Deuteronomy: Clean animals: any animal with a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud. Love discerns between the clean and the unclean. (Deuteronomy 14:6)

From Deuteronomy: Unclean: camel, rabbit, hyrax (chew cud but no split hoof); pig (split hoof but does not chew cud) — do not eat their meat or touch their carcasses. (Deuteronomy 14:7 to 8)

From Deuteronomy: Clean water creatures: those with fins and scales. (Deuteronomy 14:9 to 10)

From Deuteronomy: Do not cut down fruit trees during a siege. Love preserves the source of life even in war. (Deuteronomy 20:19 to 20)

From Deuteronomy: A body left hanging on a tree must be taken down before nightfall so as not to defile the land. Love cares for the sanctity of the land even in judgment. (Deuteronomy 21:22 to 23)

From Deuteronomy: A woman must not wear a man's garment, nor a man a woman's garment. Love maintains the distinction of the sexes. (Deuteronomy 22:5)

From Deuteronomy: If you find a bird's nest, you may take the young but must let the mother go. Love preserves the mother even while taking the young. (Deuteronomy 22:6 to 7)

From Deuteronomy: No mixed seeds in the vineyard. Love keeps the vineyard pure. (Deuteronomy 22:9)

From Deuteronomy: No plowing with ox and donkey together. Love does not yoke unequal animals. (Deuteronomy 22:10)

From Deuteronomy: Make tassels on four corners of your garments. Love wears a visible reminder of the commandments. (Deuteronomy 22:12)

From Numbers: A Nazirite shall abstain from wine, vinegar, grapes, raisins, any grape product. Love can set apart a season of total consecration. (Numbers 6:1 to 4)

From Numbers: A Nazirite shall not cut the hair of his head during the period of the vow. Love lets the sign of the vow grow undisturbed. (Numbers 6:5)

From Numbers: A Nazirite shall not go near a dead person (even for father or mother). Love places Yahuwah above even the closest family ties during the vow. (Numbers 6:6 to 7)

From Numbers: If a Nazirite is defiled accidentally, he shall shave and bring sacrifices. (Numbers 6:9 to 12)

From Numbers: At the completion of the vow, the Nazirite shaves his head at the Tent of Meeting and presents offerings. Love completes what it vowed. (Numbers 6:13 to 20)

From the Apocrypha — Sirach: Do not give yourself over to sorrow, and do not distress yourself deliberately. Gladness of heart is the life of man, and the rejoicing of a man is length of days. Love rejoices and does not brood. (Sirach 30:21 to 22)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: There is nothing from outside a man that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. Love knows that defilement originates in the heart. (Mark 7:15)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: all these evil things come from within, and defile the man. Love guards the heart as the wellspring. (Mark 7:21 to 23)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine. Love reserves what is sacred for those who will receive it. (Matthew 7:6)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: When you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face; that you appear not unto men to fast, but unto your Father which is in secret. Love fasts for the eyes of the Father, not for the praise of men. (Matthew 6:17 to 18)

From the Gospel of Yahusha: Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see Elohim. Love purifies the heart that it may behold the Beloved. (Matthew 5:8)

From the Gospel of Thomas: If you fast, you will bring sin upon yourselves... rather, what comes out of your mouth — that is what will defile you. (Saying 14)

From the Gospel of Thomas: Why do you wash the outside of the cup? Do you not realize that he who made the inside is the same one who made the outside? (Saying 89)

Love Expressed through Forgiveness, Non-retaliation, and Mercy

From Exodus: Do not bear false witness against your neighbor. Love speaks truth about the neighbor. (Exodus 20:16)

From Exodus: Do not covet your neighbor'