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Both the powerful and the lowly will perish in this land, without burial or lamentation. There will be no gashing or shaving of the head for them. [a]No one is to break bread with the mourners to comfort them in their bereavement or offer them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or mother.

Nor are you to enter a house where people are feasting and sit with them to eat and drink.

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  1. Jeremiah 16:7 The practices described here were connected with mourning.