22 You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
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And ye shall do as I have done,.... When his wife died, and as he was ordered by the Lord; the meaning of Which they were now inquiring:
ye shall not cover your lips; as a token of mourning; nor use any other of their country rites and ceremonies, for fear of provoking their enemies, in whose hands they shall be:
nor eat the bread of men; or "of mourners", as the Targum; there shall be none to comfort them, or send bread to them; they shall all be alike mourners.
(Jeremiah 16:6-7). So general shall be the calamity, that all ordinary usages of mourning shall be suspended.
Ye shall do - When you are in captivity, where you may not use your own customs.
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