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Then the orphans will be looked after, all of whose expenses will be taken care of. The cripples in the village-- all their expenses will be looked after. The poor in the village-- their necessary expenses will be defrayed. And other members who for valid reasons are incapacitated -- the blind, the old, the deaf-- their comfort must be looked after. In the village no one will remain in need or in want. All will live in the utmost comfort and welfare. Yet no schism will assail the general order of the body politic. (40:4) Hence the expenses or expenditures of the general storehouse are now made clear and its activities made manifest. The income of this general storehouse has been shown. Certain trustees will be elected by the people in a given village to look after these transactions. The farmers will be taken care of and if after all these expenses are defrayed any surplus is found in the storehouse it must be transferred to the national treasury. (40:5) This system is all thus ordered so that in the village the very poor will be comfortable, the orphans will live happily and well; in a word, no one will be left destitute. All the individual members of the body politic will thus live comfortably and well.
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