em such; [18]
nor may any one steal what belongs to strange temples, nor take away the
gifts that are dedicated to any god.

11. Let not any one of you wear a garment made of woolen and linen, for
that is appointed to be for the priests alone.

12. When the multitude are assembled together unto the holy city for
sacrificing every seventh year, at the feast of tabernacles, let the
high priest stand upon a high desk, whence he may be heard, and let
him read the laws to all the people; and let neither the women nor the
children be hindered from hearing, no, nor the servants neither; for it
is a good thing that those laws should be engraven in their souls, and
preserved in their memories, that so it may not be possible to blot them
out; for by this means they will not be guilty of sin, when they cannot
plead ignorance of what the laws have enjoined them. The laws also
will have a greater authority among them, as foretelling what they will
suffer if they break them; and imprinting in their souls by this hearing
what they command them to do, that so there may always be within their
minds that intention of the laws which they have despised and broken,
and have thereby been the causes of their own mischief. Let the children
also learn the laws, as the first thing they are taught, which will be
the best thing they can be taught, and will be the cause of their future
felicity.

13. Let every one commemorate before God the benefits which he bestowed
upon them at their deliverance out of the land of Egypt, and this twice
every day, both when the day begins and when the hour of sleep comes on,
gratitude being in its own nature a just thing, and serving not only by
way of return for past, but also by way of invitation of future favors.
They are also to inscribe the principal blessings they have received
from God upon their doors, and show the same remembrance of them upon
their arms; as also they are to bear on their forehead and their arm
those wonders which declare the power of God, and his good-will
towards them, that God's readiness to bless them may appear every where
conspicuous about them. [19]

14. Let there be seven men to judge in every city, [20] and these
such as have been before most zealous in the exercise of virtue and
righteousness. Let every judge have two officers allotted him out of the
tribe of Levi. Let those that are chosen to judge in the several cities
be had in great honor; and let none be permitted to re