Leviticus 26:29

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

And you have eaten [the] flesh of your sons; and you eat [the] flesh of your daughters.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE

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

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Original-language editions

WLC

וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם בְּשַׂ֣ר בְּנֵיכֶ֑ם וּבְשַׂ֥ר בְּנֹתֵיכֶ֖ם תֹּאכֵֽלוּ׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ φάγεσθε τὰς σάρκας τῶν υἱῶν ὑμῶν, καὶ τὰς σάρκας τῶν θυγατέρων ὑμῶν φάγεσθε.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Ezekiel 5:10As 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 24:19How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
• Deuteronomy 28:53–57Then 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. The most gentle and refined man among…
• Lamentations 4:10The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Lamentations 2:20Look, 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?
• Luke 23:29Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
• 2 Kings 6:28–29Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’ So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I…
• Jeremiah 19:9I 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.’

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