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 ¹  you in your villages.

Deuteronomy 28:57

28:57 and will secretly eat her afterbirth ²  and her newborn children ³  (since she has nothing else), ⁴  because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

Deuteronomy 32:42

32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,

and my sword will devour flesh –

the blood of the slaughtered and captured,

the chief ⁵  of the enemy’s leaders!’”

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¹ tn Heb “besiege,” redundant with the noun “siege.”

² tn Heb includes “that which comes out from between her feet.”

³ tn Heb “her sons that she will bear.”

⁴ tn Heb includes “in her need for everything.”

⁵ tn Or “head” (the same Hebrew word can mean “head” in the sense of “leader, chieftain” or “head” in the sense of body part).