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When you are seated at a lavish table, do not display your greed or exclaim: “Look at all this!”
Are you seated at the table of the great? Do not be greedy at it, and do not say, “How much food there is here!”
When you sit down at a fancy banquet, don't let your mouth hang open, and don't say, Look at all that food!
Thou hast set at a great board (or at a bountiful table); open thou not first thy cheek on it, that is, begin thou not to eat first. [And] Say thou not, whether those be many things, that be on it.
Are you seated at the table of a great man? Do not be greedy at it, and do not say, “There is certainly much upon it!”
Are you seated at the table of the great? Do not be greedy at it, and do not say, “How much food there is here!”
Are you seated at the table of the great? Do not be greedy at it, and do not say, ‘How much food there is here!’
Have you been seated at a magnificent table? Don’t be greedy as you sit there, and don’t say, “Look how much food there is!”
Are you seated at the table of the great? Bring to it no greedy gullet, Nor say, “How much food there is here!”
Are you seated at the table of a great man? Do not be greedy at it, and do not say, “There is certainly much upon it!”
Are you seated at the table of the great? Do not be greedy at it, and do not say, ‘How much food there is here!’
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