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[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. For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: In your lifetime, and before your very eyes, I will banish from this place the cries of joy and gladness, the voices of bridegroom and bride.

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