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Table Etiquette

12 Are you seated at the table of the great?[a]
    Do not be greedy at it,
    and do not say, ‘How much food there is here!’
13 Remember that a greedy eye is a bad thing.
    What has been created more greedy than the eye?
    Therefore it sheds tears for any reason.
14 Do not reach out your hand for everything you see,
    and do not crowd your neighbour[b] at the dish.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 31:12 Heb Syr: Gk at a great table
  2. Sirach 31:14 Gk him

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