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CHAPTER XXVII, 13-xxvIII, 8.
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stays at his own house, and how it is when it is not allowable to go; also deciding about the chief priest (aêrpató), and the proportion of priests (âsruko) who are superior, of those who are intermediate, and of those who are inferior in the estimation of the wisdom of the righteous. 2. About the priest whom one is sending, and the wayfaring garments and appliances which are to be given to him.
3. About the disciple, as reverent towards the chief priest; the labour in receiving the sacred words and teaching them to the disciple; the advice of the chief priest to the priests; and the muttered phrases at the time of contamination by dead matter. 4. About what priest-on the arrival of a priest back at the district from which one sends him—is to be appointed, as priest for the district from which he came, by the district governor and those of the district, for teaching and instruction in the district.
5. About which are those reckoned as the five dispositions of a priest that are the glorification of the priest's statements of the law, from the first of his statements in succession unto the last, and whatever is on the same subject.
6. About the subjects regarding which a priest of concealed parentage is to be asked, with the prelude and sequel of the same subject. 7. About the bridge penalty? of a priest through sinfulness, in a separate fargards, 8. About a priest they may carry away from a district, owing to anxiety for forming a priestly assembly, who becomes worried in forming it.
1 See Bd. XIX, 36 n. • See Chap. I, 20.
See Chap. XX, 63.
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