Our common conscience

This by the authority of our conscience, formed from overcoming our experience of slavery in Egypt.

You shall (therefore) keep our best statutes and our wisest judgements, and live in accord with our conscience.

Hear out your fellow men, and decide justly between any man and a fellow of our people or a stranger. You shall not be partial in judgment: hear out low and high alike. Fear no man, for judgment is on our conscience. And any matter that is too difficult for you, you shall bring to us and we will hear it.

You shall hold no other conscience above ours.

You shall not make for yourself an ideal of the will, in any likeness

of what is in the heavens above, or on the earth below, or in the waters
below the earth. You shall not bow down to it or serve it, for the guilt
of a parent’s bad conscience visits their children, their children, and

their children; whereas the benefits of acting conscientiously accrue

to all future generations.

You shall not swear falsely on the authority of our conscience;
for our conscience will not clear one who so swears a willful lie.

Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the authority of our
conscience has commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all
your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath by the authority of our
conscience; you shall not do any work, nor those obliged to you.

Honor your father and your mother, as the authority of our conscience
has commanded you, that you may long endure, and that you may fare well,
with the people that the authority of our conscience is creating in you.

You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall
not steal. You shall not bear false witness against another.

You shall not covet anything that is obliged to another.

Listen, my people! Your authority is our conscience alone.

Listen, Israel! Authority is conscience alone.

You shall love the authority of our conscience with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your might.

Take to heart the directive we set you this day. Impress it upon your children.
Recite it when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down
and when you get up. Bind it in the actions of your hands and let it direct
your thoughts; inscribe it on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Take to heart these instructions with which we charge you this day.
Take to heart the words of the direction in which we set you this day.
Take to heart the words of the directive we set you this day.

Impress them upon your children. Recite them when you stay at home
and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up.
Bind them in the actions of your hands and let them direct your thoughts;
inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Do what is seen right and good by our common conscience, that it may go well with you and that you may be able to live in the community of the authority of our conscience sworn allegiance to by your fathers.

Rambam summarizes the demand of our common conscience: "Once more for emphasis, generally one should do what is good and right regarding everything, including compromise, acting beyond the strict demands of the law."

Our common conscience, conscientiously you shall pursue, that you may thrive within the community that the authority of our conscience creates in you.

The authority of our conscience commands you this day to observe these laws and rules; observe them faithfully with all your heart and soul. You have affirmed this day that our conscience is your authority, that you will walk in our ways, that you will observe our laws and commandments and rules, and that you will obey them. And our authority has affirmed this day that you are, as you may expect, our treasuring people who shall observe all our commandments, and that this will set you, in fame and renown and glory, high above all the nations that are made; and that you shall be, as you may expect, a people wholly devoted to the authority of our conscience.

Comfort, oh comfort my people, says your conscience.

So say we all: ours is the first thought and ours is the last thought, and there is no authority but our conscience.

We have told you, our people, what is good, and what our conscience requires of you: only to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk modestly with our authority; then will our name achieve wisdom.

Our common conscience does not dictate that you should have any pride of conscience over others: rather, you should walk humbly with our authority.

"By his own intellect and conscience, but he does not agree that they were commanded by our common conscience," that is to say, by inspiration, convention, and covenant outside himself, to which he is and chooses to be subject.