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55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict[a] you in your villages. 56 Likewise, the most[b] tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness,[c] will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters, 57 and will secretly eat her afterbirth[d] and her newborn children[e] (since she has nothing else),[f] because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:55 tn Heb “besiege,” redundant with the noun “siege.”
  2. Deuteronomy 28:56 tc The LXX adds σφόδρα (sphodra, “very”) to bring the description into line with v. 54.
  3. Deuteronomy 28:56 tn Heb “delicateness and tenderness.”
  4. Deuteronomy 28:57 tn Heb includes “that which comes out from between her feet.”
  5. Deuteronomy 28:57 tn Heb “her sons that she will bear.”
  6. Deuteronomy 28:57 tn Heb includes “in her need for everything.”