If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you.
If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them; if not, it will return to you.
To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task?
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,
As you enter the home, give it your greeting.
If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.