You will then eat your own offspring,<n id="1" /> the flesh of the sons and daughters the <sc>Lordsc> your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege<n id="2" /> by which your enemies will constrict you.

If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it,<n id="1" /> you must not chop down its trees,<n id="2" /> for you may eat fruit<n id="3" /> from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it!<n id="4" />

However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food,<n id="1" /> and you may use it to build siege works<n id="2" /> against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.p>

He will withhold from all of them his children&#8217;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<n id="1" /> you in your villages.

and will secretly eat her afterbirth<n id="1" /> and her newborn children<n id="2" /> (since she has nothing else),<n id="3" /> because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.p>