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The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;
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The Curse's Inner Corruption
Commentators explain that the curse of disobedience goes beyond external hardship to cause a complete internal, moral collapse. Even the most 'tender and delicate' person, under this judgment, would lose all natural affection and view their closest family—brother, wife, and children—with a selfish and 'evil eye,' begrudging them even a scrap of food.
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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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[So that] the man [that is] tender among you, and very delicate
Not only the rustic…
If God inflicts vengeance, what miseries His curse can bring upon humankind, even in this present world! Yet these are but the beginning of sorrows…
