56. The most tender and delicate woman among you—so delicate she would not so much as touch the ground with her foot—will be selfish toward the husband she loves and toward her own son or daughter.
57. She will hide from them the afterbirth and the new baby she has borne, so that she herself can secretly eat them. She will have nothing else to eat during the siege and terrible distress that your enemy will inflict on all your towns.
58. “If you refuse to obey all the words of instruction that are written in this book, and if you do not fear the glorious and awesome name of the lord your God,
59. then the lord will overwhelm you and your children with indescribable plagues. These plagues will be intense and without relief, making you miserable and unbearably sick.
60. He will afflict you with all the diseases of Egypt that you feared so much, and you will have no relief.
61. The lord will afflict you with every sickness and plague there is, even those not mentioned in this Book of Instruction, until you are destroyed.
62. Though you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, few of you will be left because you would not listen to the lord your God.