NOTE: 27

[...to] [drink], do not bring the dish ([or] plate) to your mouth; nor tilt the dish in order to fill the spoon, but rather take [from it] from within with the spoon. 17. Do not gnaw upon a bone, and do not strike [it] upon the table or upon the bread in order to extract the marrow. 18. Do not wipe your soiled hands upon the tablecloth, nor upon the breast-cloth or knee-napkin; but rather cleanse [them] with a napkin, or wait until you wash [them]. 19. Do not fix your eyes upon what another is eating, as though you were counting their morsels. 20. Do not pick your teeth with the point of a knife, nor with a fork, nor with your fingers; but rather afterwards with a toothpick (*hilal*), or, still better, wash [them] with water and cleanse [them] thereby. 21. Do not pick out the choice morsel of the food, nor the finest or the largest of the fruit; but whatsoever is found before you, eat that without making distinctions. 22. Do not cast a bone, or fruit peel, or any other such thing under the table[...]