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class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/bsb/leviticus/26.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/leviticus/26.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/leviticus/26.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Then you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/leviticus/26.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/leviticus/26.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/leviticus/26.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/leviticus/26.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/leviticus/26.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/leviticus/26.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8216Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/leviticus/26.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />‘Further, you shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/leviticus/26.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/leviticus/26.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/leviticus/26.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/leviticus/26.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/leviticus/26.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/leviticus/26.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />In fact, you will be so desperate for food that you will eat your own children. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/leviticus/26.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/leviticus/26.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />You will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/leviticus/26.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Your hunger will be so great that you will eat your own children. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/leviticus/26.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />At that time, you'll eat the flesh of your sons and you'll eat the flesh of your daughters. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/leviticus/26.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/leviticus/26.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/leviticus/26.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/leviticus/26.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/leviticus/26.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/leviticus/26.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And you have eaten [the] flesh of your sons; and you eat [the] flesh of your daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/leviticus/26.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'And ye have eaten the flesh of your sons; even flesh of your daughters ye do eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/leviticus/26.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And ye ate the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/leviticus/26.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/leviticus/26.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />so much so that you will eat the flesh of your sons and your daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/leviticus/26.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />till you begin to eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/leviticus/26.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/leviticus/26.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/leviticus/26.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And you shall eat the flesh of your sons and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/leviticus/26.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/leviticus/26.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/leviticus/26-29.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NWs_V1RyMFo?start=7344" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/leviticus/26.htm">Punishments for Disobedience</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">28</span>then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins. <span class="reftext">29</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: wa·’ă·ḵal·tem (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-2mp) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">You will eat</a> <a href="/hebrew/1320.htm" title="1320: bə·śar (N-msc) -- Flesh. From basar; flesh; by extension, body, person; also The pudenda of a man.">the flesh</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: bə·nê·ḵem (N-mpc:: 2mp) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">of your own sons</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: tō·ḵê·lū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1320.htm" title="1320: ū·ḇə·śar (Conj-w:: N-msc) -- Flesh. From basar; flesh; by extension, body, person; also The pudenda of a man.">and</a> <a href="/hebrew/1323.htm" title="1323: bə·nō·ṯê·ḵem (N-fpc:: 2mp) -- Daughter. From banah; a daughter.">daughters.</a> </span><span class="reftext">30</span>I 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.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-53.htm">Deuteronomy 28:53-57</a></span><br />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. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/6-28.htm">2 Kings 6:28-29</a></span><br />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.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/19-9.htm">Jeremiah 19:9</a></span><br />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.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/4-10.htm">Lamentations 4:10</a></span><br />The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/5-10.htm">Ezekiel 5:10</a></span><br />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.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/17-6.htm">2 Kings 17:6-7</a></span><br />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<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/25-1.htm">2 Kings 25:1-3</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/16-34.htm">1 Kings 16:34</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/9-20.htm">Isaiah 9:20</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/3-3.htm">Micah 3:3</a></span><br />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.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/24-19.htm">Matthew 24:19</a></span><br />How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/21-23.htm">Luke 21:23</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/13-17.htm">Mark 13:17</a></span><br />How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/24-7.htm">Matthew 24:7-8</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/23-29.htm">Luke 23:29</a></span><br />Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/28-53.htm">Deuteronomy 28:53-57</a></b></br> 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: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/6-28.htm">2 Kings 6:28,29</a></b></br> 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… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/19-9.htm">Jeremiah 19:9</a></b></br> 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.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/leviticus/10-14.htm">Daughters</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-26.htm">Eaten</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-49.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-26.htm">Food</a> <a href="/leviticus/14-33.htm">Further</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/numbers/18-11.htm">Daughters</a> <a href="/numbers/11-21.htm">Eaten</a> <a href="/numbers/4-14.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/numbers/11-4.htm">Food</a> <a href="/numbers/10-1.htm">Further</a><div class="vheading2">Leviticus 26</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-1.htm">Of idolatry</a></span><br><span class="reftext">2. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-2.htm">Reverence</a></span><br><span class="reftext">3. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-3.htm">A blessing to those who keep the commandments</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-14.htm">A curse to those who break them</a></span><br><span class="reftext">40. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-40.htm">God promises to remember those who repent</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/leviticus/26.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/leviticus/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/leviticus/26.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>You will eat the flesh</b><br>This phrase is a dire warning of the consequences of disobedience to God's covenant. Cannibalism is presented as the ultimate curse, a reversal of natural order and a sign of extreme desperation. In the ancient Near East, such acts were considered abhorrent and were often associated with divine judgment. This warning serves as a stark reminder of the severity of turning away from God's commands.<p><b>of your own sons and daughters.</b><br>The mention of "sons and daughters" emphasizes the personal and familial devastation that would result from disobedience. In the cultural context of ancient Israel, children were seen as a blessing and a continuation of one's lineage. The loss of children, especially in such a horrific manner, would be the ultimate tragedy. This phrase also connects to other biblical instances where disobedience leads to severe consequences, such as in <a href="/deuteronomy/28-53.htm">Deuteronomy 28:53-57</a> and <a href="/2_kings/6-28.htm">2 Kings 6:28-29</a>, where similar situations are described during times of siege and famine. These instances highlight the fulfillment of prophetic warnings when the people of Israel turned away from God.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a></b><br>The primary audience of Leviticus, the Israelites were God's chosen people, whom He delivered from Egypt and to whom He gave the Law through Moses.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a></b><br>The prophet and leader of the Israelites, who received the Law from God on Mount Sinai and communicated it to the people.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/c/covenant.htm">Covenant</a></b><br>The agreement between God and the Israelites, which included blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/p/promised_land.htm">Promised Land</a></b><br>The land of Canaan, which God promised to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/f/famine_and_siege.htm">Famine and Siege</a></b><br>Contextual events that could lead to extreme conditions, such as those described in <a href="/leviticus/26-29.htm">Leviticus 26:29</a>.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_seriousness_of_sin.htm">The Seriousness of Sin</a></b><br><a href="/leviticus/26-29.htm">Leviticus 26:29</a> highlights the severe consequences of sin and disobedience to God. It serves as a sobering reminder of the seriousness with which God views sin.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_faithfulness_of_god.htm">The Faithfulness of God</a></b><br>Even in the warnings of judgment, we see God's faithfulness to His covenant. He is just and true to His word, both in blessings and in curses.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_repentance.htm">The Call to Repentance</a></b><br>The dire warnings are not just punitive but are intended to lead the people to repentance. God desires restoration and reconciliation with His people.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_obedience.htm">The Importance of Obedience</a></b><br>Obedience to God's commands is crucial for experiencing His blessings. The Israelites' history serves as a lesson for us to prioritize obedience in our relationship with God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_in_redemption.htm">Hope in Redemption</a></b><br>While the consequences of sin are severe, the broader biblical account points to redemption through Christ, who bore the ultimate curse for our disobedience.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_leviticus_26.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Leviticus 26</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_of_israelite_cannibalism.htm">(Leviticus 26:29) Do we have any archaeological or recorded history of Israelites resorting to cannibalism precisely as this curse suggests? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_on_cannibalism.htm">What does the Bible say about cannibalism?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/lamentations_2_20__literal_or_metaphorical.htm">Lamentations 2:20 – Does the reference to horrific acts like eating one’s own children indicate a literal event, and if so, how can such a command coexist with a just and loving God?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_is_purification_longer_for_daughters.htm">Why does Leviticus 12:5 require a longer period of purification for a daughter than for a son, and how is this disparity justified?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/leviticus/26.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(29) <span class= "bld">And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons.</span>--The harrowing scene here described is also depicted in <a href="/context/deuteronomy/28-53.htm" title="And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege, and in the narrow place, with which your enemies shall distress you:">Deuteronomy 28:53-57</a>. This prediction actually came to pass at the siege of Samaria by the Syrians (<a href="/context/2_kings/6-28.htm" title="And the king said to her, What ails you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.">2Kings 6:28-29</a>), 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" (<a href="/lamentations/4-10.htm" title="The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.">Lamentations 4:10</a>; comp. also <a href="/jeremiah/19-9.htm" title="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 narrow place, with which their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.">Jeremiah 19:9</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/5-10.htm" title="Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the middle of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in you, and the whole remnant of you will I scatter into all the winds.">Ezekiel 5:10</a>; <a href="/zechariah/11-9.htm" title="Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dies, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.">Zechariah 11:9</a>, &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. . . . <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/leviticus/26-29.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">You will eat</span><br /><span class="heb">וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(wa·’ă·ḵal·tem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> </span><span class="str2">To eat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the flesh</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּשַׂ֣ר</span> <span class="translit">(bə·śar)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1320.htm">Strong's 1320: </a> </span><span class="str2">Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of your sons</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּנֵיכֶ֑ם</span> <span class="translit">(bə·nê·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> </span><span class="str2">A son</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and the flesh</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבְשַׂ֥ר</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇə·śar)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1320.htm">Strong's 1320: </a> </span><span class="str2">Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of your daughters.</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּנֹתֵיכֶ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(bə·nō·ṯê·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1323.htm">Strong's 1323: </a> </span><span class="str2">A daughter</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/leviticus/26-29.htm">Leviticus 26:29 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/leviticus/26-29.htm">Leviticus 26:29 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/leviticus/26-29.htm">Leviticus 26:29 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/leviticus/26-29.htm">Leviticus 26:29 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/leviticus/26-29.htm">Leviticus 26:29 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/leviticus/26-29.htm">Leviticus 26:29 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/leviticus/26-29.htm">Leviticus 26:29 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/leviticus/26-29.htm">Leviticus 26:29 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/leviticus/26-29.htm">Leviticus 26:29 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/leviticus/26-29.htm">Leviticus 26:29 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/leviticus/26-29.htm">OT Law: Leviticus 26:29 You will eat the flesh of your (Le Lv Lev.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/leviticus/26-28.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 26:28"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 26:28" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/leviticus/26-30.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 26:30"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 26:30" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>