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53 And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, whom Yahweh your God gave to you, during the siege and during the distress[a] your enemy inflicts upon you. 54 The most refined and the very sensitive[b] man among you shall be mean with his brother[c] and against his beloved wife[d] and against the rest[e] of his children that he has left over, 55 by refraining from giving[f] to even one of them any of the meat of his children that he eats, because there is not anything that is left over for him during the siege and distress[g] that your enemy inflicts upon you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:53 Literally “in siege and in distress”
  2. Deuteronomy 28:54 Or “kindly disposed”
  3. Deuteronomy 28:54 Literally “shall be bad/evil his eye against his brother”
  4. Deuteronomy 28:54 Literally “against the wife of his lap”
  5. Deuteronomy 28:54 Or “remainder”
  6. Deuteronomy 28:55 Literally “from giving”
  7. Deuteronomy 28:55 Literally “in the siege and distress”