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57 But now she will be so hungry that she will eat her new baby and the afterbirth.[a] She will eat them secretly because there is nothing else for her to eat. She will not share anything with her family because your enemy will be too strong. The soldiers will stop any food from coming into your towns.

Moses warns the people again

58 Be careful to obey all the words of this law that I have written in this scroll. Always respect the Lord your God. Give him the honour that his great name deserves. 59 If you refuse to do that, the Lord will punish you and your descendants more and more. You will have lots of pain and many kinds of terrible disease that will not get better.

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Footnotes

  1. 28:57 The ‘afterbirth’ is the part that comes out of the mother when a baby is born.