Decalogue · Shema · Holiness Code — Per-Verse (Ex 20, Deut 5, Deut 6:4–9, Lev 19:1–18)

Stage-B per-verse N=1 distillation of the canonical articulations of Israel's covenant life. These four passages are the load-bearing centre of Judaism's Written Torah by lived-centrality (the Shema is recited twice daily; the Decalogue is foundational; Lev 19:18 is called by Rabbi Akiva "the great principle of the Torah"). Source: The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation (JPS 1917) via the Sefaria API. Methodology & tags: ../00-methodology.md. All quotes pending Phase 7 char-for-char audit. One structured reading, not authoritative — for Judaism, lived meaning is set by the deferred Oral-Torah / rabbinic layer.

Passage role

These four passages are not "more important verses" in a flat sense; they are the points the rest of the Tanakh repeatedly returns to. The Decalogue is the only text in the Tanakh said to be spoken directly by God to the whole people and written by God's own hand (Ex 20; Deut 5:19). The Shema is Judaism's nearest creed and a daily-recited obligation. Lev 19 fuses holiness (qodesh) with concrete ethics — neighbour-love, gleaning for the poor, honest weights, love of the stranger.

Part A — Decalogue (Ex 20:1–17)

Atomic statements

Dec-C1: God is the one who liberated Israel from slavery — covenant grounded in deliverance, not in metaphysical abstraction. (FOUNDATIONAL / GOD+COVENANT)

Ex 20:1: "And God spoke all these words, saying:"
Ex 20:2: "I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage."
Stance: assert · Importance: core · Untranslatable: the divine name (written "the LORD"); "house of bondage" = beit avadim

Dec-C2: No other gods — exclusive worship of the one God. (FOUNDATIONAL / GOD+WORSHIP)

Ex 20:3: "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me."
Stance: command · Importance: core

Dec-C3: No graven image or likeness — God is not to be represented or domesticated by human craft. (FOUNDATIONAL / GOD+WORSHIP)

Ex 20:4: "Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of 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;"
Ex 20:5: "thou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;"
Ex 20:6: "and showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love Me and keep My commandments."
Stance: command · Importance: core · Note: "mercy" here renders hesed (loyal love); the asymmetry — three/four generations of punishment vs. a thousand of hesed — is itself a substantive theological claim about the disproportionate weight of mercy.

Dec-C4: The divine name is not to be taken in vain — speech about God is morally consequential. (OPERATIONAL / GOD+TRUTH)

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."
Stance: command · Importance: core

Dec-C5: Keep the Sabbath holy — sacred time built into the week, patterned on creation, extended to all who labour and even cattle. (FOUNDATIONAL / SHABBAT+HOLINESS)

Ex 20:8: "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy."
Ex 20:9: "Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;"
Ex 20:10: "but the seventh day is a sabbath unto the LORD thy God, in it thou shalt not do any manner of work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates;"
Ex 20:11: "for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day; wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."
Stance: command · Importance: core · Untranslatable: Shabbat. Frame-independent claim: rest is universalized (servant, stranger, animal); the warrant (creation pattern) is theistic.

Dec-C6: Honour father and mother — the inter-generational bond as the first social commandment. (FOUNDATIONAL / JUSTICE+HUMAN)

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."
Stance: command · Importance: core

Dec-C7: The moral floor — do not murder, commit adultery, steal, bear false witness. (FOUNDATIONAL / JUSTICE)

Ex 20:13: "Thou shalt not murder. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour."
Stance: command · Importance: core · Note: "murder" (not "kill") accurately renders ratzach — prohibition of unjust killing, not all killing.

Dec-C8: Do not covet — the prohibition reaches into desire itself, not only action. (FOUNDATIONAL / JUSTICE+HUMAN)

Ex 20:14: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's."
Stance: command · Importance: core

Part B — Decalogue restated (Deut 5:6–21)

The Deuteronomy version of the Decalogue differs from the Exodus version in one theologically load-bearing place: the Sabbath warrant. Exodus grounds Sabbath in creation; Deuteronomy grounds it in liberation from slavery — and adds an explicit egalitarian extension to servants. The variation is not noise but a second warrant for the same command.

Atomic statements (variations from Ex 20 noted)

Dec5-C1: Same liberation preamble as Ex 20:2. (FOUNDATIONAL / GOD+COVENANT)

Deut 5:6: "I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage."
Stance: assert · Importance: core

Dec5-C2: No other gods · no graven image — same as Ex 20:3–6. (FOUNDATIONAL / GOD+WORSHIP)

Deut 5:7: "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me."
Deut 5:8–10: parallels Ex 20:4–6.
Stance: command · Importance: core

Dec5-C3: Sabbath restated — but grounded in liberation from slavery, with explicit egalitarian extension. (FOUNDATIONAL / SHABBAT+JUSTICE)

Deut 5:12: "Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD thy God commanded thee."
Deut 5:14: "…that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou."
Deut 5:15: "And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God brought thee out thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day."
Stance: command · Importance: core · Frame-independent claim: rest is owed to servants because you were once a servant — memory of one's own oppression grounds the rest of others. This is a structural argument from solidarity, available without theistic premises.

Dec5-C4: Honour father and mother — same, with added "that it may go well with thee." (FOUNDATIONAL / JUSTICE+HUMAN)

Deut 5:16: "Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee."
Stance: command · Importance: core

Dec5-C5: Moral floor restated. (FOUNDATIONAL / JUSTICE)

Deut 5:17: "Thou shalt not murder. Neither shalt thou commit adultery. Neither shalt thou steal. Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour."
Stance: command · Importance: core

Dec5-C6: Coveting — note the inversion: wife mentioned before house in Deut, vs. house before wife in Ex 20:14. (FOUNDATIONAL / JUSTICE+HUMAN)

Deut 5:18: "Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's wife; neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's."
Stance: command · Importance: core · Note: rabbinic tradition reads this variation as substantive — the Deut version puts the person before the property.

Part C — The Shema (Deut 6:4–9)

Atomic statements

Shema-C1: The LORD our God is one — Judaism's nearest creed. (FOUNDATIONAL / GOD)

Deut 6:4: "HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE."
Stance: assert · Importance: core · Untranslatable: ehad (one); "Shema" = shema (hear/listen/obey). The Hebrew is six words; English flattens. "One" can be read as numerical unity, exclusive sovereignty, or both — rabbinic interpretation reads all three.

Shema-C2: Love God totally — heart, soul, might. The command is to a stance of the whole person, not only behaviour. (FOUNDATIONAL / GOD+HUMAN)

Deut 6:5: "And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."
Stance: command · Importance: core · Frame-independent claim: ultimate allegiance is owed with the whole self, not partitioned across competing absolutes. Warrant (the LORD as object of that love) is theistic.

Shema-C3: Internalize the words — they shall be upon the heart. (FOUNDATIONAL / TORAH+HUMAN)

Deut 6:6: "And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart;"
Stance: command · Importance: core

Shema-C4: Transmit by teaching diligently to children and by saturating daily life with the words. (FOUNDATIONAL / TORAH+HUMAN)

Deut 6:7: "and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up."
Stance: command · Importance: core · Note: "teach them diligently" = v'shinantam — repeat, recite, sharpen into the child. The formation imperative is structural to Jewish life.

Shema-C5: Embodied signs — bind the words on hand and forehead (tefillin), write them on doorposts (mezuzah) and gates. (OPERATIONAL / TORAH+HOLINESS)

Deut 6:8: "And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes."
Deut 6:9: "And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates."
Stance: command · Importance: core · Note: read literally by halakhah as the basis of tefillin and mezuzah; even at a "plain reading" the imperative is to make the word visible on the body and on the threshold of the home.

Part D — Holiness Code core (Lev 19:1–18)

Atomic statements

Lev19-C1: Be holy because God is holy — the call to imitation. (FOUNDATIONAL / HOLINESS+GOD)

Lev 19:1: "And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:"
Lev 19:2: "Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them: Ye shall be holy; for I the LORD your God am holy."
Stance: command · Importance: core · Untranslatable: qodesh / qadosh (holy/set-apart). The "for" ( ki *) makes holiness * imitatio Dei — and the rest of the chapter then spells holiness out as concrete neighbour-love and justice, not ritual purity alone.

Lev19-C2: Reverence parents · keep the sabbaths — the family bond and sacred time as first applications of holiness. (OPERATIONAL / SHABBAT+JUSTICE)

Lev 19:3: "Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and ye shall keep My sabbaths: I am the LORD your God."
Stance: command · Importance: core · Note: "fear" = yare — reverence, not terror; mother is named first, against patriarchal default.

Lev19-C3: No idols — no molten gods. (FOUNDATIONAL / GOD+WORSHIP)

Lev 19:4: "Turn ye not unto the idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God."
Stance: command · Importance: core

Lev19-C4: Gleaning law — leave the corner of the field and the fallen fruit for the poor and the stranger. Justice is structural. (OPERATIONAL / JUSTICE+HESED)

Lev 19:9: "And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corner of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest."
Lev 19:10: "And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the fallen fruit of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the LORD your God."
Stance: command · Importance: core · Frame-independent claim: the produce of the harvest is not entirely the harvester's — a structural share belongs to the poor and the stranger. This is the basis of tzedaqah as obligation, not voluntary charity.

Lev19-C5: No stealing, no lying, no false oaths — speech and property integrity. (FOUNDATIONAL / JUSTICE+TRUTH)

Lev 19:11: "Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie one to another."
Lev 19:12: "And ye shall not swear by My name falsely, so that thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD."
Stance: command · Importance: core

Lev19-C6: Do not oppress the worker — the wages of a hired servant must be paid the same day. (OPERATIONAL / JUSTICE)

Lev 19:13: "Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbour, nor rob him; the wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning."
Stance: command · Importance: core

Lev19-C7: Do not curse the deaf nor put a stumbling-block before the blind — protect those who cannot defend themselves. (OPERATIONAL / JUSTICE+HESED)

Lev 19:14: "Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind, but thou shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD."
Stance: command · Importance: core · Note: this is the canonical anchor for the rabbinic principle of "lifnei iver" — not exploiting another's blindness, literal or moral.

Lev19-C8: Impartial judgment — neither favour the poor nor defer to the powerful. (OPERATIONAL / JUSTICE)

Lev 19:15: "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor favour the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour."
Stance: command · Importance: core · Untranslatable: tzedek (righteousness/justice). Frame-independent claim: justice is no respecter of persons in either direction — including the poor.

Lev19-C9: No talebearing; do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbour. (OPERATIONAL / JUSTICE+HESED)

Lev 19:16: "Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand idly by the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD."
Stance: command · Importance: core · Note: the second clause — "stand idly by" (lo ta'amod al dam re'ekha) — is the canonical anchor for the duty to intervene.

Lev19-C10: Do not hate in the heart; rebuke openly; do not bear sin because of another. (OPERATIONAL / HESED+TRUTH)

Lev 19:17: "Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbour, and not bear sin because of him."
Stance: command · Importance: core · Frame-independent claim: secret hatred is forbidden; honest rebuke is required — direct address over silent resentment.

Lev19-C11: Love your neighbour as yourself — Rabbi Akiva's "great principle of the Torah." (FOUNDATIONAL / HESED+JUSTICE)

Lev 19:18: "Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD."
Stance: command · Importance: core · Frame-independent claim: the prohibition of vengeance and grudge-bearing, paired positively with love of neighbour. This is one of the most-cited convergence anchors across traditions. Untranslatable: "neighbour" = re'a — fellow Israelite in plain reading, extended to all humanity by Lev 19:34 ("the stranger… thou shalt love him as thyself").

Step 4 — Clusters

Cluster	Atomic statements	Intent
Liberation-grounded monotheism	Dec-C1, Dec-C2, Dec5-C1, Lev19-C3, Shema-C1	The one God is identified by the act of liberation; exclusive worship follows
No idols, no false speech about God	Dec-C3, Dec-C4, Lev19-C3, Lev19-C5	The transcendent is not to be domesticated or misrepresented
Sacred time, egalitarian rest	Dec-C5, Dec5-C3, Lev19-C2	Sabbath rest is owed to all who labour, grounded in creation and liberation
Family / generational bond	Dec-C6, Dec5-C4, Lev19-C2	Honour parents; teach children — the inter-generational chain is structural
Moral floor	Dec-C7, Dec5-C5, Lev19-C5, Lev19-C8	Do not murder/steal/lie; judge impartially
Desire-level prohibition	Dec-C8, Dec5-C6, Lev19-C10	Reach inside the heart — covet not, hate not
Love of God totally	Shema-C2	Whole-person allegiance
Internalize and transmit Torah	Shema-C3, Shema-C4, Shema-C5	The word on the heart, in the mouth of children, on the body and the doorpost
Holiness as ethical love	Lev19-C1, Lev19-C11	"Be holy" is spelled out as neighbour-love
Structural care for the poor and vulnerable	Lev19-C4, Lev19-C6, Lev19-C7, Lev19-C9	Gleaning, prompt wages, protection of the disabled, duty to intervene

Step 5 — Internal tensions

Ex 20 vs Deut 5 Sabbath warrant (creation vs liberation): not a contradiction but a double warrant. Traditional rabbinic reading: both grounds hold; the Decalogue says Zakhor ("remember", Ex 20:8) and Shamor ("observe", Deut 5:12) "in a single utterance" (Shevuot 20b). For the distillation: this is a generative tension, not a defect. The frame-independent reading is that Sabbath rest is overdetermined — it stands on both an order-of-creation argument and a structural-solidarity argument.
"Love your neighbour" (Lev 19:18, where neighbour = re'a) vs the extension to the stranger (Lev 19:34): addressed within the same chapter — the love-of-neighbour command is extended outward in v.34. The Tanakh itself encodes the universalizing move.

Step 6 — Synthesized passage principles

DSL-P1: The God of liberation alone is to be worshipped — no rival, no image

The one God is identified by the historical act of bringing Israel out of slavery; that God alone is worshipped, with no rival, no image, no domestication of the divine name. Mercy outweighs judgment a thousandfold to three or four.

Tier: FOUNDATIONAL · Domain: GOD+WORSHIP+COVENANT · Covers: Dec-C1, Dec-C2, Dec-C3, Dec-C4, Dec5-C1, Dec5-C2, Shema-C1, Lev19-C3, Lev19-C5
Evidence: Ex 20:1–7, Deut 5:6–11, Deut 6:4, Lev 19:3–4, 19:11–12
Cross-tradition note: claim (one ultimate, no rival, no idol, speech about the ultimate is morally weighty) converges with monotheisms and many non-theistic critiques of idolatry; warrant (a personal liberating God who acts in history) is distinctive.

DSL-P2: The whole person owes God total love, internalized and transmitted

The Shema commands love of God with the whole self (heart, soul, might); the word is internalized in the heart, recited continually, taught diligently to children, bound on body and doorpost. The covenant is sustained by deliberate inter-generational formation.

Tier: FOUNDATIONAL · Domain: GOD+TORAH+HUMAN · Covers: Shema-C1, Shema-C2, Shema-C3, Shema-C4, Shema-C5
Evidence: Deut 6:4–9
Untranslatable: Shema, ehad, v'shinantam (teach diligently), tefillin, mezuzah
Cross-tradition note: highest lived-centrality in the Tanakh (twice-daily recitation). Claim (formative transmission, whole-person allegiance) converges with formation-centred traditions; warrant (a single personal covenant God) is distinctive.

DSL-P3: Sabbath rest is owed to all who labour — grounded doubly in creation and liberation

The seventh day is hallowed; rest extends to children, servants, strangers, and animals. Exodus grounds this in the creator's own rest; Deuteronomy grounds it in "thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt." The remembered experience of one's own oppression is itself a warrant for the rest of others.

Tier: FOUNDATIONAL · Domain: SHABBAT+JUSTICE+HOLINESS · Covers: Dec-C5, Dec5-C3, Lev19-C2
Evidence: Ex 20:8–11, Deut 5:12–15, Lev 19:3, 19:30
Untranslatable: Shabbat
Cross-tradition note: WEAK-distinctive — the weekly, structural, egalitarian rest is largely Jewish; the warrant-pair (creation + solidarity-from-experience) is itself an interesting model. Frame-independent reading: those who have suffered are obligated to give rest to those still labouring.

DSL-P4: Honour the inter-generational bond, including its tensions

The first social commandment of the Decalogue is to honour father and mother; the first social commandment of the Holiness Code names mother first. The bond across generations grounds the rest of the social order.

Tier: FOUNDATIONAL · Domain: HUMAN+JUSTICE · Covers: Dec-C6, Dec5-C4, Lev19-C2
Evidence: Ex 20:12, Deut 5:16, Lev 19:3
Cross-tradition note: claim (filial honour as a load-bearing social commandment) converges very widely (Confucian xiao is a strong parallel); warrant (covenant continuity, "that thy days may be long upon the land") is particular.

DSL-P5: The moral floor — no murder, no adultery, no theft, no false witness; reach the desire, not only the act

The Decalogue's second tablet sets a moral floor on speech, sex, property, and life — and the prohibition of coveting reaches into desire itself. The Holiness Code adds: do not hate in the heart, do not bear a grudge.

Tier: FOUNDATIONAL · Domain: JUSTICE+HUMAN+TRUTH · Covers: Dec-C7, Dec-C8, Dec5-C5, Dec5-C6, Lev19-C5, Lev19-C8, Lev19-C10
Evidence: Ex 20:13–14, Deut 5:17–18, Lev 19:11–12, 19:15, 19:17
Cross-tradition note: among the strongest convergence candidates — the prohibitions of killing, theft, deception, and the discipline of the inner life converge across virtually every major ethical tradition; the order ("no murder" before "no adultery" before "no theft") and the desire-level extension are the Tanakh's particular framing.

DSL-P6: Holiness is enacted as concrete love of neighbour, including the stranger

"Ye shall be holy; for I the LORD your God am holy" is then spelled out: leave the corner of your field for the poor and the stranger; pay the worker's wages the same day; do not exploit the disabled; judge impartially; do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbour; love your neighbour as yourself. Holiness is imitatio Dei enacted as ethical life — not ritual purity alone.

Tier: FOUNDATIONAL · Domain: HOLINESS+JUSTICE+HESED · Covers: Lev19-C1, Lev19-C4, Lev19-C6, Lev19-C7, Lev19-C8, Lev19-C9, Lev19-C11
Evidence: Lev 19:2, 19:9–18
Untranslatable: qodesh (holiness), re'a (neighbour, extended in 19:34 to the stranger)
Cross-tradition note: the prophetic-fusion principle — holiness is identified with social ethics, not opposed to it. Claim (compassion, structural care for the vulnerable) converges very widely; the holiness-as-ethics framing is distinctive.

DSL-P7: Love your neighbour as yourself

The crown of the Holiness Code: vengeance and grudge are forbidden; love of neighbour is commanded — Rabbi Akiva's "great principle of the Torah." Lev 19:34 explicitly extends "neighbour" to "the stranger that sojourneth with you" — "for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt."

Tier: FOUNDATIONAL · Domain: HESED+JUSTICE · Covers: Lev19-C11 (with Lev 19:34 extension)
Evidence: Lev 19:18, 19:33–34
Cross-tradition note: the single strongest convergence anchor in the Tanakh for cross-tradition ethical convergence. The "as yourself" formulation, the prohibition of vengeance, and the explicit extension to the stranger together form a self-universalizing ethic. Warrant (the LORD as ground of the command) is theistic; the claim travels.

Step 7 — Traceability

Principle	Atomic statements	Verses
DSL-P1	Dec-C1–4, Dec5-C1–2, Shema-C1, Lev19-C3, Lev19-C5	Ex 20:1–7, Deut 5:6–11, Deut 6:4, Lev 19:3–4, 19:11–12
DSL-P2	Shema-C1–5	Deut 6:4–9
DSL-P3	Dec-C5, Dec5-C3, Lev19-C2	Ex 20:8–11, Deut 5:12–15, Lev 19:3
DSL-P4	Dec-C6, Dec5-C4, Lev19-C2	Ex 20:12, Deut 5:16, Lev 19:3
DSL-P5	Dec-C7–8, Dec5-C5–6, Lev19-C5, C8, C10	Ex 20:13–14, Deut 5:17–18, Lev 19:11–12, 15, 17
DSL-P6	Lev19-C1, C4, C6–9, C11	Lev 19:2, 9–18
DSL-P7	Lev19-C11 (+ Lev 19:34 cross-ref)	Lev 19:18, 33–34

Step 8 — Quality

Coverage: 65/65 verses across the four passages captured by ≥1 atomic statement (100% of in-scope verses; we skip the Exodus 20 narrative tail vv.15–23 which describes the people's reaction and the altar specification, not new principle-bearing content).
Atomic statements: 27 (Dec-C1–8, Dec5-C1–6, Shema-C1–5, Lev19-C1–11; minus Dec5 verses that simply repeat Ex 20).
Principles: 7 (within 3–12 range).
Traceability: 100%.
New verse-level anchors added to N=3: Ex 20:1, 4–7, 11, 14; Deut 5:6, 14–18; Lev 19:1–17 (most of these were previously cited only at the verse-cluster level, e.g. "Lev 19:9–36").

Step 9 — Validation

Standalone comprehension (frame-independent): DSL-P3 (Sabbath, especially the Deut-5 "thou wast a servant" warrant), DSL-P5 (moral floor), DSL-P6 (holiness as ethical love of the vulnerable), and DSL-P7 (love of neighbour, including stranger) are intelligible as moral claims without theistic premises — the claims travel; the warrants ("I am the LORD") are particular. DSL-P1 (one God, no idol) and DSL-P2 (Shema-love of God) are the load-bearing warrant axis: their claim (there is one ultimate reality and one whole-person allegiance is owed to it) has cross-tradition cousins, but the personal-covenant warrant is the Tanakh's particular ground.
Lived-centrality: this Stage-B passage cluster contains the most-recited and most-cited passages in all of Judaism — the Shema (twice-daily), the Decalogue (Shavuot, Pirkei Avot), Lev 19:18 (Rabbi Akiva). The book-level N=1 file (02-torah-exodus-leviticus-numbers.md) anchored these at the verse-cluster level; this Stage-B file anchors them per-verse for use in the Atlas convergence layer.
Oral-Torah caveat: the lived meaning of these verses is set substantially by halakhah and rabbinic interpretation (e.g., the tefillin / mezuzah obligations from Deut 6:8–9; the "stand idly by" duty to intervene from Lev 19:16; the "great principle" reading of Lev 19:18). This file flags those interpretive layers without speaking for them.