Deuteronomy 28:55 meaning and explanation
refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.
Deuteronomy 28:55, Berean Standard Bible
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Moses speaks to Israel on the plains of Moab, setting the covenant's blessings and curses before the people as they prepare to enter the land. Verse 55 belongs to the harshest of those curses: an enemy besieges the cities, and a refined man, starving, eats his own children and refuses to share even with his brother or the wife he embraces.
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