1a
Ye shall not cut down the timber on the hills and mountains, lest your children suffer for want of wood and water.
1b
Ye shall not destroy the groves along the shores of the lakes and ponds, lest the winds and storms make your land desolate, and both heat and cold destroy you.
1c
Therefore, shall ye cause them to grow continually, and they shall beautify your inheritance, and your children shall rise up and call you blessed.
2a
¶ Every man who receiveth an inheritance shall preserve a forest thereon, that his children may walk in the shade thereof, and may build houses and prepare food;
2b
And that his cattle faint not with heat or drought, nor perish in the blast; and the land yield her increase.
2c
If there be no forest, he shall plant one.
3a
¶ Ye shall preserve the trees by the wayside; and if there be none, ye shall plant them.
3b
Whether it be in the cities, towns, and villages, or the fields and forests, ye shall do it.
4
¶ All these things shall ye do as your king shall appoint, and your rulers determine, that the land be pleasant to your children.
5a
¶ And in your cities, and towns, and villages, and by the side of great waters, and ponds, and running streams, and springs, shall groves be appointed to you, that the aged and the young may go there to rest and to play.
5b
There shall ye all make yourselves joyful.