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(A)They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
    (B)and their sacrifices shall not please him.
It shall be like (C)mourners' bread to them;
    all who eat of it shall be defiled;
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
    (D)it shall not come to the house of the Lord.

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“For thus says the Lord: (A)Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament or grieve for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, my steadfast love and mercy, declares the Lord. Both great and small shall die in this land. (B)They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or (C)cut himself (D)or make himself bald for them. No one shall (E)break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead, nor shall anyone give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother.

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