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They shall die, the great and the lowly, in this land, unburied and unlamented.[a] No one will gash themselves or shave their heads for them.(A) They will not break bread with the bereaved to offer consolation for the dead; they will not give them the cup of consolation to drink over the death of father or mother.(B)

Do not enter a house of feasting to sit eating and drinking with them.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:6–7 These verses refer to popular mourning practices in the land; cf. Dt 14:1–2.