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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.
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