Leviticus 26:29
New International Version
You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

New Living Translation
Then you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

English Standard Version
You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

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

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

New King James Version
You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

New American Standard Bible
Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

NASB 1995
‘Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.

NASB 1977
‘Further, you shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat.

Legacy Standard Bible
Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.

Amplified Bible
You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

Christian Standard Bible
You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You will eat the flesh of your sons; 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.

Contemporary English Version
In fact, you will be so desperate for food that you will eat your own children.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.

Good News Translation
Your hunger will be so great that you will eat your own children.

International Standard Version
At that time, you'll eat the flesh of your sons and you'll eat the flesh of your daughters.

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

NET Bible
You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

New Heart English Bible
You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And you have eaten [the] flesh of your sons; and you eat [the] flesh of your daughters.

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

Smith's Literal Translation
And ye ate the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.

Catholic Public Domain Version
so much so that you will eat the flesh of your sons and your daughters.

New American Bible
till you begin to eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And you shall eat the flesh of your sons and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

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

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Context
Punishments for Disobedience
28then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins. 29You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters. 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.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:53-57
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. / The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived, / refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates. ...

2 Kings 6:28-29
Then 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 said to her, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.”

Jeremiah 19:9
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 4:10
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
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.’

2 Kings 17:6-7
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes. / All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods

2 Kings 25:1-3
So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it. / And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. / By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

1 Kings 16:34
In Ahab’s days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.

Isaiah 9:20
They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.

Micah 3:3
You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”

Matthew 24:19
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

Luke 21:23
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.

Mark 13:17
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

Matthew 24:7-8
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. / All these are the beginning of birth pains.

Luke 23:29
Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’


Treasury of Scripture

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

Deuteronomy 28:53-57
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: …

2 Kings 6:28,29
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…

Jeremiah 19:9
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

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You will eat
This phrase is a stark and shocking declaration of the consequences of disobedience to God's covenant. The Hebrew root for "eat" is "אָכַל" (akal), which is a common verb used throughout the Old Testament. In this context, it is used to convey the severity of the judgment that will befall the Israelites if they turn away from God. The act of eating here is not just physical consumption but symbolizes the complete breakdown of societal norms and the desperation that results from divine judgment. Historically, such dire circumstances were not unheard of in ancient times, especially during sieges, as recorded in other biblical passages like 2 Kings 6:28-29.

the flesh
The term "flesh" in Hebrew is "בָּשָׂר" (basar), which typically refers to the physical body. In this context, it underscores the horror and unnaturalness of the act being described. The use of "flesh" rather than simply "body" emphasizes the raw, visceral nature of the judgment. It serves as a reminder of the physical and spiritual corruption that results from turning away from God's laws. Theologically, it highlights the consequences of sin and the extent to which it can degrade human dignity and morality.

of your sons and the flesh of your daughters
This phrase is particularly poignant and distressing, as it involves the most intimate and cherished relationships—those between parents and their children. The Hebrew words for "sons" (בֵּן, ben) and "daughters" (בַּת, bat) are used here to emphasize the familial bonds that are being tragically violated. In the ancient Near Eastern context, children were seen as blessings and the future of the family line. The mention of both sons and daughters indicates the totality of the calamity and the depth of the societal collapse. Scripturally, this serves as a dire warning of the consequences of forsaking God's covenant, as the family unit, a fundamental building block of society, is torn apart.

(29) And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons.--The harrowing scene here described is also depicted in Deuteronomy 28:53-57. This prediction actually came to pass at the siege of Samaria by the Syrians (2Kings 6:28-29), and at the siege of Jerusalem by the Chaldaeans, which Jeremiah thus bewails, "the hands of pitiful women have sodden their own children, they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people" (Lamentations 4:10; comp. also Jeremiah 19:9; Ezekiel 5:10; Zechariah 11:9, &c.). This also happened at the siege of Jerusalem by Titus. A woman named Mary killed her infant child and boiled it during the height of the famine, and after she had eaten part of it, the soldiers found the rest in her house. . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You will eat
וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם (wa·’ă·ḵal·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

the flesh
בְּשַׂ֣ר (bə·śar)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

of your sons
בְּנֵיכֶ֑ם (bə·nê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

and the flesh
וּבְשַׂ֥ר (ū·ḇə·śar)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

of your daughters.
בְּנֹתֵיכֶ֖ם (bə·nō·ṯê·ḵem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1323: A daughter


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