NOTE: 24

[...they] place the [...]. 4. Do not sit too close to or too far from the table; do not act as though falling upon the table, nor place your arms upon it. [5.] Let your morsels be neither exceedingly large nor exceedingly small; and do not so fill your mouth with food that you must chew with all [your] teeth, but [take] a moderate [portion], so that you may be able to chew on one side. [6.] Do not eat food in great haste or with panting, but with intervals [between bites]; and do not make a chewing sound, nor smack your lips. [7.] Do not put another morsel into your mouth before you have eaten the first; do not dip the morsel you have [already] bitten into the food. [8.] If you have the habit of using a fork (*ch‘at‘al*), eat suitable food with it; and if you do not have [such] a habit, take [it] with three fingers, [and] do not dip all your fingers [into it]. [9.] If it should happen that a stone or some other inedible thing is found among the morsels you are chewing, it is not proper [...]