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"You will eat your children, the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you.
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The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children,
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refusing to share with any of them his children's flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns.
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The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,
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the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything [else] during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your gates.
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"If you are not careful to obey all the words of this law, which are written in this scroll, by fearing this glorious and awesome name-Yahweh, your God-
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He will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
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He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt, which you dreaded, and they will cling to you.
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The Lord will also inflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed.
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Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God.
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Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so He will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be deported from the land you are entering to possess.