Let there be taken out of your fruits a tenth, besides that which
you have allotted to give to the priests and Levites. This you may indeed
sell in the country, but it is to be used in those feasts and sacrifices
that are to be celebrated in the holy city; for it is fit that you should
enjoy those fruits of the earth which God gives you to possess, so as may
be to the honor of the donor. You are not to offer sacrifices out of the hire of a woman who is
a harlot The hire of public or secret harlots was given to Venus in Syria, as Lucian
informs us, p. 878; and against some such vile practice of the old idolaters
this law seems to have been made. 
for the Deity is not pleased with any thing that arises from such abuses
of nature; of which sort none can be worse than this prostitution of the
body. In like manner no one may take the price of the covering of a bitch,
either of one that is used in hunting, or in keeping of sheep, and thence
sacrifice to God. Let no one blaspheme those gods which other cities esteem such;
 The Apostolical Constitutions, B. II. ch. 26. sect. 31, expound this law
of Moses, Exodus 22. 28, Thou shalt not revile or blaspheme the gods, 
or magistrates, which is a much more probable exposition than this of Josephus,
of heathen gillis, as here, and against Apion, B. II. ch. 3. sect. 31.
What book of the law was thus publicly read, see the note on Antiq. B.
X. ch. 5. sect. 5, and 1 Esd. 9:8-55. nor
may any one steal what belongs to strange temples, nor take away the gifts
that are dedicated to any god. Let not any one of you wear a garment made of woolen and linen,
for that is appointed to be for the priests alone. 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.