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Deuteronomy 28

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^{Deuteronomy 28:4 [1]} Lit fruit and so throughout.

^{Deuteronomy 28:4 [2]} Lit womb.

^{Deuteronomy 28:8 [3]} Lit all to which you set your hand.

^{Deuteronomy 28:20 [4]} Lit forsaken.

^{Deuteronomy 28:34 [5]} Lit your eyes which you.

^{Deuteronomy 28:40 [6]} Olive oil was commonly used like a cosmetic to soften the skin, and as a hair dressing.

^{Deuteronomy 28:50 [7]} Lit strong of face. Assyria and Babylonia have been suggested as prophetic fulfillments for this nation, and prophecy often has more than one fulfillment.

^{Deuteronomy 28:50 [8]} Lit not lift up the face of.

^{Deuteronomy 28:54 [10]} Lit the wife of his bosom.

^{Deuteronomy 28:54 [9]} Lit his eye will be evil toward.

^{Deuteronomy 28:55 [11]} The horror of the situation is understated: this self-absorbed father begins killing some of his children to feed himself. The rest of the family, also starving under the brutal conditions, probably want some of the macabre meal but the father keeps it all for himself.

^{Deuteronomy 28:55 [12]} The implication is that under ordinary conditions, such a person would undoubtedly gag at eating perfectly good food that might be slightly stale or otherwise unappealing to him.

^{Deuteronomy 28:56 [13]} Lit her eye will be evil toward.

^{Deuteronomy 28:56 [14]} Lit the husband of her bosom.

^{Deuteronomy 28:63 [15]} There have been many "uprootings" from the land, notably those by Nebuchadnezzar (605, 587, 586 B.C.), Titus (A.D. 70), and later by the Emperor Hadrian (A.D. 135) who issued a proclamation forbidding Jews to live in Judea, or even to approach its border. In his attempt to eradicate Judaism, among other things, Hadrian renamed the Roman province of Syria Palaestina (after the Philistines).

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