E.1:1Then God spoke all these words, saying: 2“'''I AM''' IS HE WHO IS YOUR GOD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3“YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS before me.
4“YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FOR YOURSELF ANY IDOL of any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. 5“YOU SHALL NOT WORSHIP THEM OR SERVE THEM; for I, he who is your God, is a possessive God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
====Deacons====
E.2:1“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).
7“If a person sells his daughter to the synagogue as an orphan be a deaconess, she must not leave in the same process as the Hebrews.
