それを心に刻み、夜も昼も正しく朗誦し、その節々について熟考し、そこで合法とされたことを合法と宣言し、違法とされたことを違法と宣言し、その定めに従い、その警告に注意を払い、その譬えから教訓を汲み取り、その物語から戒めを見いだし、完全に明白な節に基づいて行動し、完全には明白でない節には服従し、(合法と違法の)境界に近づかず、歪曲や虚偽の主張からそれを守り、言葉のあらゆる意味においてそれに助言を与え、周囲の人々にそれを意識的に説き伝えることである。

A--- It means to commit it to one's heart and to recite it properly at night and by day, to contemplate over its verses, to declare as lawful what it legalizes and to declare as unlawful what it makes illegal, to obey its ordainments, to take heed of its warnings, to derive lessons from its parables, to find admonition in its stories, to act on its entirely clear verses, to submit to its not-entirely-clear verses, to approach not its boundaries (of what is lawful and unlawful), to defend it against distortions and false claims, to give counsel to it in every meaning of the word, and to consciously preach it to men around.