1
An adult entering the covenant shall be instructed according to capacity, examined concerning intention and conduct, and received without selling access to the qodesh rites.
2
Immersion is not an empty transaction. The confession joined to it must be voluntary; fraud and coercion do not create genuine covenantal assent.
3
Those coming from another worship shall put away rites irreconcilable with the confession they now make. Ordinary ethnic, linguistic, household, or civil customs shall not be condemned merely because they differ.
4
The poor shall not be excluded for lack of wealth, and the wealthy shall not be advanced merely because of wealth.
5
After serious transgression, correction shall aim at repentance, restitution, and restoration where restoration remains possible.