the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth;
Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.
When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.
“Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.
“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?
And they said to him, “Keep quiet; put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?”
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