Answer: Although all are not to be permitted to read the Word publicly to the congregation₁, yet all sorts of people are bound to read it apart by themselves₂, and with their families₃: to which end, the holy Scriptures are to be translated out of the original into vulgar languages.₄

1. Dt 31:9, 11–13; Neh 8:2–3; 9:3–5;
2. Dt 17:19; Rev 1:3; Jn 5:39; Isa 34:16;
3. Dt 6:6–9; Gen 18:17, 19; Ps 78:5–7;
4. 1 Cor 14:6, 9, 11–12, 15–16, 24, 27–28