DEUT1302 What one says represents the commitments one makes. What one does either validates or denies those spoken commitments. How one's deeds relate to one's speech indicate whether one is honest or counterfeit, a person of integrity or a hypocrite. As the seventeenth-century Italian rabbi, Leone da Modena, put it, "Words are the guide to acts; the mouth makes the first move." [Source not cited.] Already in Scripture, the requirement to correlate word and deed is stated: "That which has gone out of your lips you shall observe and you shall do" (this verse, see also Numbers 30:3.) According to the Talmud, "Pleasant are the words of one who practices well one speaks." Tosefta Yebamot 8:7, Genesis Rabbah 34:14.