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Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.
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The Disgrace of No Burial
Commentators explain that this curse is not just about death, but about the added shame of being denied burial. John Calvin notes that burial rites signify God's favor and point to the hope of resurrection. To have one's body consumed by animals was a profound disgrace, a visible sign of God's judgment that stripped a person of human dignity.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The curses correspond in form and number (Deuteronomy 28:15–19) to the blessings (Deuteronomy 28:3–6), and the special ways…
19th Century
Anglican
And thy carcase shall be meat. —This is repeated in Jeremiah 7:33 and was to be fulfilled in Tophet, when they had buried…
16th Century
Protestant
And your carcass shall be meat. The punishment is here doubled by the disgrace that is added to death, for it is shameful to be deprived o…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And thy carcass shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth<…
If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only fall short of the blessing promised, but we also lay ourselves under the curse, which includes al…
