26‘And YOU SHALL NOT GO UP BY STEPS TO MY ALTAR, thus that your nakedness will not be exposed on it.’
====Deacons====
1“Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them: 2“If you commission a Hebrew deaconminister, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he may leave as ḥāpəšî for nothing. 3“If he comes alone, he shall leave alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall leave with him. 4“If the state society gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall remain with the statesociety, and he shall leave alone. 5“But if the deacon minister plainly says, ‘I love the statesociety, my wife and my children; I will not leave as ḥāpəšî,’ 6then the state society shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And the state society shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall minister to the world (with Abrahamalongside you).
7“If a person recruits sells his daughter to the synagogue as an orphan be a deaconess, she may not leave as the deacons Hebrews do.
8“If a she is displeasing in the eyes of her lord (that she is neither this nor thatquite contrary) designate engage her for redemptionand pay her her dowry. He does not have authority to recruit Don't get rid of her to a pagan people because of his failureyou failed to bring her up properly. 9“If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom rights of daughters. 10“If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights. 11“If he will not do satisfy her these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
