Leviticus 26:29

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

And ye shall eat {H398} the flesh {H1320} of your sons {H1121}, and the flesh {H1320} of your daughters {H1323} shall ye eat {H398}.

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

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

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

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Lamentations 4:10 (3 votes)

    The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Matthew 24:19 (3 votes)

    And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

  • Ezekiel 5:10 (3 votes)

    Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

  • Luke 23:29 (2 votes)

    For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed [are] the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.

  • Lamentations 2:20 (2 votes)

    Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  • 2 Kings 6:28 (2 votes)

    And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.

  • 2 Kings 6:29 (2 votes)

    So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.