A monk who has five other qualities also shouldn’t speak in the Sangha: (1) he doesn’t know the offenses and non-offenses; (2) he doesn’t know the light and heavy offenses; (3) he doesn’t know the curable and incurable offenses; (4) he doesn’t know the grave and minor offenses; (5) he doesn’t know the offenses that are clearable by making amends and the offenses that are not clearable by making amends. But a monk who has five qualities may speak in the Sangha: (1) he knows the offenses and non-offenses; (2) he knows the light and heavy offenses; (3) he knows the curable and incurable offenses; (4) he knows the grave and minor offenses; (5) he knows the offenses that are clearable by making amends and the offenses that are not clearable by making amends.

A monk who has five other qualities also shouldn’t speak in the Sangha: (1) he doesn’t know the legal procedures; (2) he doesn’t know how the legal procedures are done; (3) he doesn’t know the actions that are the bases for the legal procedures; (4) he doesn’t know the proper conduct in relation to the legal procedures; (5) he doesn’t know the settling of the legal procedures. But a monk who has five qualities may speak in the Sangha: (1) he knows the legal procedures; (2) he knows how the legal procedures are done; (3) he knows the actions that are the bases for the legal procedures; (4) he knows the proper conduct in relation to the legal procedures; (5) he knows the settling of the legal procedures.

A monk who has five other qualities also shouldn’t speak in the Sangha: (1) he doesn’t know the actions that are the bases for offenses; (2) he doesn’t know the origin stories; (3) he doesn’t know the rules; (4) he doesn’t know the right order of words; (5) he doesn’t know the sequence of statements. But a monk who has five qualities may speak in the Sangha: (1) he knows the actions that are the bases for offenses; (2) he knows the origin stories; (3) he knows the rules; (4) he knows the right order of words; (5) he knows the sequence of statements.