17 Sigh, but not aloud; make no mourning for the dead. (A)Bind on your turban, and (B)put your shoes on your feet; do not cover your lips, (C)nor eat the bread of men.” 18 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and (D)at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did (E)as I was commanded.

19 And (F)the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, that you are acting thus?”

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