Chapter 15

1Concerning the ordination of a Reader (anaguenestis). Said Ya'ekob, that a reader shall be ordained after he has been first tried. He shall not be of many words, nor a drunkard, nor a scoffer. And he shall be of good character, and a lover of the good ; one who is quick to go every day to the church, who remembers there the judgment ; and he shall be obedient, and one who reads well, and who knows the duty (lit. place) of him who reads, that he should do according to what he reads ; and one who fills the ear of others with his word, ought he not to do it himself? Will it not be written against him as a sin before God ?