Quoting%20commentary for Moed Katan 35:3
הואי (קהלת י, ה) כשגגה שיוצא מלפני השליט ואיתרע ביה מילתא בשמואל על פנחס אחוה למישאל טעמא מיניה שקלינהו לטופריה חבטינהו לאפיה אמר ליה לית לך ברית כרותה לשפתים
This was [inauspicious], 'like an error which proceedeth from a ruler;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Eccl. X, 5.');"><sup>3</sup></span> and Samuel [later] suffered a bereavement himself. When his brother [Phineas] called on him to ask the cause of it, Samuel took his cut nails and cast them down in front of his brother, saying, 'Do you not hold that a covenant has been made with the lips? '<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the way in which a thing is expressed may contain a prognostication for the future.');"><sup>4</sup></span>
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