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56 The most refined and the most delicate woman among you, who shall[a] not venture to put the sole of her foot on the ground from being so delicate and from such gentleness, shall be mean to her beloved husband[b] and against her son and against her daughter, 57 and even concerning her afterbirth that goes out[c] from between her feet and also concerning her children that she bears, because she eats them for lack of anything in secret during the siege and during the distress[d] that your enemy inflicts upon her in your towns.[e]

58 “If you do not diligently observe[f] all the words of this law written in this scroll by revering this glorious and awesome name, Yahweh your God,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:56 Or “would”
  2. Deuteronomy 28:56 Literally “shall be bad her eye against the husband of her lap”
  3. Deuteronomy 28:57 Literally “the going out”
  4. Deuteronomy 28:57 Literally “in the siege and in the distress”
  5. Deuteronomy 28:57 Literally “gates”
  6. Deuteronomy 28:58 Literally “you observe to do”