“But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.”
And I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your streams; you shall fall on the open field and not be gathered or buried; I have given you as food to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the air, describing the ultimate humiliation: exposure in the wilderness, unburied and consumed by scavengers. The refusal of burial—crucial in ancient cultures for ensuring peaceful afterlife existence—represents severe disgrace. The provision of Pharaoh's body as food for animals emphasizes total loss of dignity and honor.
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