Deuteronomy 28:53

28:53 You will then eat your own offspring, ¹  the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege ²  by which your enemies will constrict you.

Deuteronomy 28:55

28:55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict ³  you in your villages.

Deuteronomy 28:57

28:57 and will secretly eat her afterbirth ⁴  and her newborn children ⁵  (since she has nothing else), ⁶  because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

¹ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”

² tn Heb “siege and stress.”

³ tn Heb “besiege,” redundant with the noun “siege.”

⁵ tn Heb includes “that which comes out from between her feet.”

⁶ tn Heb “her sons that she will bear.”

⁷ tn Heb includes “in her need for everything.”