IN EVERY PLACE WHERE I CAUSE MY NAME TO BE REMEMBERED, I will come to you and bless you.
25‘If you make an altar of stone for Me, YOU SHALL NOT BUILD IT OF CUT STONES, for if you wield your tool on it, you will profane it.
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 minister, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he may leave as ḥāpəšî without fine. 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 society gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall remain with the society, and he shall leave alone. 5“But if the minister plainly says, ‘I love the society, my wife and my children; I will not leave as ḥāpəšî,’ 6then the society shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And the society shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall minister to the world (alongside you).
