Leviticus 26:29 “You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.”

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

World English Bible

You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

American Standard Version

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

Geneva Bible 1599

And ye shall eate ye flesh of your sonnes, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye deuoure.

Darby Translation

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

Young's Literal Translation

'And ye have eaten the flesh of your sons; even flesh of your daughters ye do eat.

Bible in Basic English

Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;

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Cross references

“And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.”

Deuteronomy 28:53–57 Lamentations 4:10 Ezekiel 5:10 Matthew 24:19 Jeremiah 19:9 Lamentations 2:20

Deuteronomy 28:53–57 · BSB

Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.

Lamentations 4:10 · BSB

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Ezekiel 5:10 · BSB

As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’

Matthew 24:19 · BSB

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

Jeremiah 19:9 · BSB

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’

Lamentations 2:20 · BSB

Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

28then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.

30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

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