Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 179
tor of all, receiving another teacher besides Moshiach, who
alone is the faithful and true Prophet, and who has sent us
twelve shlichim to preach the word; if any one think otherwise
than worthily of the substance of Yahweh, which excels all
things;-these are the things which even fatally pollute the
garment of mikvah. But the things which pollute it in actions
are these: murders, adulteries, hatreds, avarice, and evil ambition.
And the things which pollute at once the spirit and the
body are these: to partake of the table of demons, that is, to
taste things sacrificed, or blood, or a carcass which is strangled,
and if there be aught else which has been offered to demons.
Be this therefore the first step to you of three; which
step brings forth thirty commands, and the second sixty, and
the third a hundred, as we shall expound more fully to you at
Chapter XXXVII: The Congregation Dismissed
When he had thus spoken, and had charged them to come
to the same place in good time on the following day, he dismissed
the crowds; and when they were unwilling to depart,
time to-
commanding me to withdraw a little for the purpose of prayer,
afterwards ordered the couches to be spread in the part of the
garden which was covered with shade; and every one, according
to custom, recognizing the place of his own rank, we took
food. Then, as there was still some portion of the day left, he
evening was come, he entered his bed-chamber and went to
sleep.