Leviticus 26:29
 Leviticus 26:29 
New International Version (©2011)
You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

English Standard Version (©2001)
You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

International Standard Version (©2012)
At that time, you'll eat the flesh of your sons and you'll eat the flesh of your daughters.

NET Bible (©2006)
You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.

American King James Version
And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.

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

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

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.

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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 by the things they suffer, God himself would be against them; and this is the root and cause of all their misery. And also, The whole creation would be at war with them. All God's sore judgments would be sent against them. The threatenings here are very particular, they were prophecies, and He that foresaw all their rebellions, knew they would prove so. TEMPORAL judgments are threatened. Those who will not be parted from their sins by the commands of God, shall be parted from them by judgments. Those wedded to their lusts, will have enough of them. SPIRITUAL judgments are threatened, which should seize the mind. They should find no acceptance with God. A guilty conscience would be their continual terror. It is righteous with God to leave those to despair of pardon, who presume to sin; and it is owing to free grace, if we are not left to pine away in the iniquity we were born in, and have lived in.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons,.... Which was fulfilled at the siege of Samaria, in the times of Joram, 2 Kings 6:29; and at the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, Lamentations 4:10; and though there is no instance of it at that time in the sacred records, the Jews (p) tells us of one Doeg ben Joseph, who died and left a little one with his mother, who was very fond of him; but at this siege slew him with her own hands, and ate him, with respect to which they suppose Jeremiah makes the lamentation, Lamentations 2:2; and of this also there was an instance at the last siege of Jerusalem, by Titus, when a woman, named Mary, of a considerable family, boiled her son, and ate part of him, and the rest was found in her house when the seditious party broke in upon her, as Josephus (q) relates:

and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat; of which, though no instances are given, it is as reasonable to suppose it was done as the former. Some of the Jewish writers (r) think, that in this prediction is included, that children should eat their parents, as well as parents their children, as in Ezekiel 5:10.

(p) Torat Cohanim in Yalkut, par. 1. fol. 197. 1.((q) De Bello. Jud. l. 6. c. 3. sect. 4. (r) Torat Cohanim, ib.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

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 [49]De 28:53).


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Punishments for Disobedience
28Then I will walk contrary to you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat. 30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. …

Deuteronomy 28:53 Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you.
2 Kings 6:29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, 'Give up your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden him."
Jeremiah 19:9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh because their enemies will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.'
Lamentations 4:10 With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.
Ezekiel 5:10 Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds.