¹⁷ But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean;

³ So take a bath, and, after rubbing your body with sweet oil, put on your best robe, and go down to the grain-floor; but do not let him see you till he has come to the end of his meal.

²⁰ Then David got up from the earth, and after washing and rubbing himself with oil and changing his clothing, he went into the house of the Lord and gave worship: then he went back to his house, and at his order they put food before him and he had a meal.

² And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:

⁸ Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.

² In those days I, Daniel, gave myself up to grief for three full weeks.

³ I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.