<P> On the verse, "Love your fellow as yourself," the classic commentator Rashi quotes from Torat Kohanim, an early Midrashic text regarding the famous dictum of Rabbi Akiva: "Love your fellow as yourself--Rabbi Akiva says this is a great principle of the Torah ." </P> <P> Israel's postal service quoted from the previous Leviticus verse when it commemorated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on a 1958 postage stamp . </P> <P> The "Golden Rule" was given by Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 7: 12 NCV, see also Luke 6: 31). The common English phrasing is "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". A similar form of the phrase appeared in a Catholic catechism around 1567 (certainly in the reprint of 1583). The Golden Rule is stated positively numerous times in the Hebrew Pentateuch as well as the Prophets and Writings . Leviticus 19: 18 ("Forget about the wrong things people do to you, and do not try to get even . Love your neighbor as you love yourself ."; see also Great Commandment) and Leviticus 19: 34 ("But treat them just as you treat your own citizens . Love foreigners as you love yourselves, because you were foreigners one time in Egypt . I am the Lord your God ."). </P> <P> The Old Testament Deuterocanonical books of Tobit and Sirach, accepted as part of the Scriptural canon by Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Non-Chalcedonian Churches, express a negative form of the golden rule: </P>

Where does it say in the bible do unto others as you would have them do unto you