^{16 Ref} Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your eyes by disease: but let there be no sorrow or weeping or drops running from your eyes.

^{17 Ref} Let there be no sound of sorrow; make no weeping for your dead, put on your head-dress and your shoes on your feet, let not your lips be covered, and do not take the food of those in grief.

^{18 Ref} So in the morning I was teaching the people and in the evening death took my wife; and in the morning I did what I had been ordered to do.