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Sirach 31:12
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Sirach 31:12
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Table Etiquette
12 [a]Are you seated at the table of the great?[b]
Do not be greedy at it,
and do not say, “How much food there is here!”(A)
Sirach 31:16
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Sirach 31:16
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16 Eat what is set before you like a well brought-up person,[a]
and do not chew greedily, or you will be despised.(A)
Footnotes
- 31.16 Heb: Gk like a human being
Sirach 31:17
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Sirach 31:17
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17 Be the first to stop, as befits good manners,
and do not be insatiable, or you will give offense.
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