Etiquette
Good manners show up in Scripture only in passing. When three strangers appear near his tent, Abraham “ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground.” Rachel, hiding her father’s household images, gives an excuse that works because rising for her father was expected: “Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee.” Proverbs adds a lesson about the table: “When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee,” and keep appetite in check.
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Genesis
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
Proverbs
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.