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23 My wrath will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword; then your own wives will be widows, and your children orphans.

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23 If you do and they cry out(A) to me, I will certainly hear their cry.(B)

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21 So now, give their children[a] to famine,(A)
    deliver them to the power of the sword.
Let their wives be childless and widows;
    let their husbands die of pestilence,
    their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.

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Footnotes

  1. 18:21 Give their children: often an extended family is meant, to be rewarded or punished as a unit.

21 So give their children over to famine;(A)
    hand them over to the power of the sword.(B)
Let their wives be made childless and widows;(C)
    let their men be put to death,
    their young men(D) slain by the sword in battle.

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