NOTE: 17

a. When you awake from sleep, put on your garments quickly; do not walk about half-dressed, lest you take a chill and fall ill, or [lest] an honorable person meet you, and you suffer shame. b. Wash your hands, your face, your mouth, [and] your teeth well, so that your mouth may not smell, and your teeth may not rot. And if the water be cold, it is very good; for washing with cold water is exceedingly beneficial and wholesome for a person. But see that you do not wet your clothes; do not splash the water hither and thither; [and] the towel (*p‘ēshk‘ir*)...

CHAP[TER] III: Rules for rising from bed.

Time likewise remaineth thus. Wherefore ye must strive to be educated from childhood, so that your sitting [and] standing, eating [and] drinking, and all [your] conduct of life may possess dignity and grace.

[Chapter] II