53 (A)Then you will eat the [a]offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and the hardship by which your enemy will [b]oppress you. 54 The man who is [c]refined and very delicate among you [d]will be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife [e]he cherishes, and toward the rest of his children who are left, 55 so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else left, during the siege and the hardship by which your enemy will [f]oppress you in all your [g]towns.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:53 Lit fruit of your womb
  2. Deuteronomy 28:53 Or torment
  3. Deuteronomy 28:54 Or spoiled and pampered
  4. Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit his eye will be evil toward
  5. Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit of his breast
  6. Deuteronomy 28:55 Or torment
  7. Deuteronomy 28:55 Lit gates

53 Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you.(A) 54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 55 and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.(B)

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