Leviticus 26:29

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

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

28then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have disciplined you, even I, sevenfold for your sins.

30And I have destroyed your high places, and cut down your images, and have put your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols, and My soul has loathed you;

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Cross References

2 Kings 6:28And the king says to her, “What is [troubling] you?” And she says, “This woman said to me, Give your son, and we eat him today, and we eat my son tomorrow;

Jeremiah 19:9And I have caused them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and they each eat the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the constriction with which their enemies constrict them, and those seeking their life.”

Lamentations 4:10The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, || They have been for food to them, || In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Matthew 24:19And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 26:15-40

Threatenings. ( b. c. 1490.) 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face… Read the whole commentary →

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