“And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.”
For three and a half days members of the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze on their dead bodies and refuse to give them burial — for three and a half days (matching half of the 1,260-day period), the global witnesses (universal scope emphasized) gaze (blepō) upon the unburied corpses, a profound dishonor in Jewish and Mediterranean cultures. The display represents humanity's apparent victory over testimony.
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