“When you are bidden of any man to a marriage feast, sit not down in the chief seat; lest haply a more honorable man than you be bidden of him, and he that bade you and him shall come and say to you, Give this man place; and then you shall begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when you are bidden, go and sit down in the lowest place; that when he that has bidden you comes, he may say to you, Friend, go up higher: then shall you have glory in the presence of all that sit at meat with you. For every one that exalts himself shall be humbled; and he that humbls himself shall be exalted. When you makest a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brethren, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors; lest haply they also bid you again, and a recompense be made you. But when you makest a feast, bid the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and you shall be blessed; because they have not wherewith to recompense you: for you shall be recompensed in the resurrection of the just.”