Leviticus 26 · Verse 29

Leviticus 26:29

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
Leviticus 26:29, King James Version

Leviticus 26:29 in other translations

BSBYou will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
WEBYou will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
ASVAnd ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
YLT‘And ye have eaten the flesh of your sons; even flesh of your daughters ye do eat.
DARBYAnd ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
BBEThen you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;
WebsterAnd ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

What does Leviticus 26:29 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
29. ye shall eat the flesh of your sons--The revolting picture was actually exhibited at the siege of Samaria, at the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar (La 4:10), and at the destruction of that city by the Romans. (See on De 28:53).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 29 Ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, etc. - This was literally fulfilled at the siege of Jerusalem. Josephus, Wars of the Jews, book vii., chap. ii., gives us a particular instance in dreadful detail of a woman named Mary, who, in the extremity of the famine during the siege, killed her sucking child, roasted, and had eaten part of it when discovered by the soldiers! See this threatened, Jer 19:9 (note).

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 26:14-39

After God has set the blessing before them which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient, he here sets the curse before them, the evils which would make them miserable, if they were disobedient. Two things would bring ruin. 1. A contempt of God's commandments. They that reject the precept, will come at last to renounce the covenant. 2. A contempt of his corrections. If they will not learn obedience…

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Leviticus 26:29 in the original Hebrew

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וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֖םva.'a.khal.Temand you will eatH398
בְּשַׂ֣רbe.Sar[the] flesh ofH1320
בְּנֵיכֶ֑םbe.nei.Khemsons yourH1121
וּבְשַׂ֥רu.ve.Sarand [the] flesh ofH1320
בְּנֹתֵיכֶ֖םbe.no.tei.Khemdaughters yourH1323
תֹּאכֵֽלוּ\׃to.Khe.luyou will eatH398

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Cross references for Leviticus 26:29

  • Matthew 24:19

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

  • Ezekiel 5:10

    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.

  • 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: So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, …

  • Lamentations 4:10

    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 2:20

    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 6:28-29

    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. 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.

  • Luke 23:29

    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.

  • 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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
This was literally fulfilled at the siege of Jerusalem. Josephus gives a dreadful detail respecting a woman named Mary, who, in the extremity of the famine, during the seige, killed her sucking child, roasted, and had eaten part of it, when discovered by the soldiers!
De 28:53-57; 2Ki 6:28,29; Jer 19:9; La 2:20; 4:10; Eze 5:10
Mt 24:19; Lu 23:29

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Context

  • Leviticus 26:28

    Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

  • Leviticus 26:29

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

  • Leviticus 26:30

    And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

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Leviticus 26:29 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y comeréis las carnes de vuestros hijos, y comeréis las carnes de vuestras hijas:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et vous mangerez la chair de vos fils, et vous mangerez la chair de vos filles;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und ihr werdet das Fleisch eurer Söhne essen, und das Fleisch eurer Töchter werdet ihr essen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
ita ut comedatis carnes filiorum vestrorum et filiarum vestrarum.