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

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