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• The foreign elements among them were so greedy for meat that even the Israelites lamented again, "Would that we had meat for food! (Numbers 11, 4)

• So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah, because it was there that the greedy people were buried. (Numbers 11, 34)

• Why do you keep a greedy eye on my sacrifices and on the offerings which I have prescribed? And why do you honor your sons in preference to me, fattening yourselves with the choicest part of every offering of my people Israel?' (1 Samuel 2, 29)

• he said to the people: "Do not be greedy for the plunder, for there is a fight ahead of us, (1 Maccabees 4, 17)

• This is the fate of everyone greedy of loot: unlawful gain takes away the life of him who acquires it. (Proverbs 1, 19)

• He who is greedy of gain brings ruin on his own house, but he who hates bribes will live. (Proverbs 15, 27)

• The greedy man stirs up disputes, but he who trusts in the LORD will prosper. (Proverbs 28, 25)

• Stumble not through woman's beauty, nor be greedy for her wealth; (Ecclesiasticus 25, 20)

• If you are dining with a great man, bring not a greedy gullet to his table, Nor cry out, "How much food there is here!" (Ecclesiasticus 31, 12)

• Behave at table like a favored guest, and be not greedy, lest you be despised. (Ecclesiasticus 31, 16)

• Small and great alike, all are greedy for gain; prophet and priest, all practice fraud. (Jeremiah 6, 13)

• Therefore, I will give their wives to strangers, their fields to spoilers. Small and great alike, all are greedy for gain, prophet and priest, all practice fraud. (Jeremiah 8, 10)