1.  Discipline your mind. (Genesis 6:5-6)
   
2.  Make peacemaking a priority – even to your own loss. (Genesis 13:8-9)

         a.   When you've been wronged go directly to the one you think sinned against you. (Genesis 20:9-10; 21:25-30)
         b.   Be willing to make alliances in order to preserve the peace. (Genesis 21:23-24)
         c.   Boldly work out the details of the alliance – ensuring that no one is hurt. (Genesis 21:25-30)
         d.   Be willing to pay full price for goods and services. Value peace over commerce. (Genesis 23:3-16)
         e.   Show respect to the culture and people in which you reside. (Genesis 23:3-16)
 3.    Do not be a mocker. (Genesis 21:9-10)
 4.    Do not base your choices on what appears to be advantageous if it places you in proximity to sin. (Genesis 13:10-13)
 5.    Be both willing to and prepared to defend your family. (Genesis 14:13-16)
 6.    Do not allow corruption to devolve into violence. (Genesis 6:9-11)
 7.    Never commit suicide; never give up and lay down to die. (Genesis 21:15-18)
 8.    Dress. Do not show your nakedness. (Genesis 3:21)
 9.    Practice hospitality. (Genesis 18:2-5; 19:1-3)
        a.   Give your guests your best. (Genesis 18:6-8)
 10.   Keep a good testimony with your family. (Genesis 19:12-14)
 11.   Carry the name of the Lord God well. Do not misuse it. (Exodus 20:7)
 12.   Do not murder. (Exodus 20:13)
         a.   Cain was punished by exile and inability to grow anything (the one thing he was apparently good at). (Genesis 4:11-12)
         b.   Murder was to be avenged seven times over. (Genesis 4:14-15)
         c.   The punishment for taking a life is forfeiting one’s own. (Genesis 9:5-6)
 13.   Do not steal. (Exodus 20:15)
 14.   Do not give false testimony against your neighbor. (Exodus 20:16)
 15.   Do not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor. (Exodus 20:17)
 16.   Do not follow Lowlander customs. (Leviticus 18:3; Romans 12:1-2)
 17.   Become Holy as Yahweh is Holy. (Leviticus 19:2)