Leviticus 26:29

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`And ye have eaten the flesh of your sons; even flesh of your daughters ye do eat.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Leviticus 26:29 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 28:53Then 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.
  2. 2 Kings 6:28Then 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.’
  3. 2 Kings 6:29So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.”
  4. 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.’
  5. 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?
  6. 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.
  7. 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.’
  8. Matthew 24:19How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
  9. 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!’

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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