but have come back and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, 'Eat no bread and drink no water'; your body shall not come to the grave of your fathers.'" — The oracle specifies the consequences: the young prophet will die away from home, denied the honor of ancestral burial. The phrase וּנְשָׁמְךָ לֹא־תָבוֹא אֶל־קְבוּרַת אֲבוֹתֶיךָ (uneshmatcha lo-tavo el-kevurat avotecha, your body shall not come to the grave of your fathers) invokes the worst fate in Israelite imagination: exile from the family tomb. This judgment—not immediate death but death in alienation—becomes the execution of the word.

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