Leviticus 26:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Ezek 5:10 : 10 For this cause fathers will take their sons for food among you, and sons will make a meal of their fathers; and I will be judge among you, and all the rest of you I will send away to every wind.
  • Matt 24:19 : 19 But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.
  • Luke 23:29 : 29 For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.
  • Deut 28:53-57 : 53 And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters. 54 That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living; 55 And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns. 56 The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter; 57 And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.
  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow. 29 So, boiling my son, we had a meal of him; and on the day after I said to her, Now give your son for our food; but she has put her son in a secret place.
  • Jer 19:9 : 9 I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 28:53-57
    5 verses
    86%

    53And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters.

    54That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;

    55And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

    56The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

    57And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

  • Jer 19:9
    85%

    9I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.

  • Ezek 5:10
    82%

    10For this cause fathers will take their sons for food among you, and sons will make a meal of their fathers; and I will be judge among you, and all the rest of you I will send away to every wind.

  • Lev 26:30
    81%

    30And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.

  • Jer 5:17
    79%

    17They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • Lev 26:38-39
    2 verses
    78%

    38And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.

    39And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.

  • Ezek 16:19-21
    3 verses
    77%

    19And my bread which I gave you, the best meal and oil and honey which I gave you for your food, you put it before them for a sweet smell, says the Lord.

    20And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,

    21That you put my children to death and gave them up to go through the fire to them?

  • 2 Kgs 6:29
    77%

    29So, boiling my son, we had a meal of him; and on the day after I said to her, Now give your son for our food; but she has put her son in a secret place.

  • Lev 26:25-26
    2 verses
    76%

    25And I will send a sword on you to give effect to the punishment of my agreement; and when you come together into your towns I will send disease among you and you will be given up into the hands of your haters.

    26When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

  • Mic 6:14
    76%

    14You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

  • Lev 26:16-17
    2 verses
    76%

    16This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

    17And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.

  • Lev 26:28
    75%

    28Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins.

  • Ezek 23:25
    75%

    25And my bitter feeling will be working against you, and they will take you in hand with passion; they will take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you will be put to the sword: they will take your sons and daughters, and the rest of you will be burned up in the fire.

  • Lam 4:10
    75%

    10The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Jer 7:21
    75%

    21These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.

  • Deut 28:32
    75%

    32Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.

  • Isa 9:20
    75%

    20On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.

  • Ezek 24:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21Say to the people of Israel, The Lord has said, See, I will make my holy place unclean, the pride of your strength, the pleasure of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and daughters, who did not come with you here, will be put to the sword.

    22And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief.

  • Jer 11:22
    75%

    22So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will send punishment on them: the young men will be put to the sword; their sons and their daughters will come to death through need of food:

  • Mic 3:3
    75%

    3Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.

  • Jer 16:3
    74%

    3For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:

  • Deut 28:41
    74%

    41You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land.

  • Exod 22:24
    74%

    24And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

  • Zech 11:9
    74%

    9And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.

  • Ezek 16:27
    73%

    27Now, then, my hand is stretched out against you, cutting down your fixed amount, and I have given you up to the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines who are shamed by your loose ways.

  • Ezek 39:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and your drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of sheep and lambs, of he-goats, of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.

    19You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you.

  • Ezek 23:47
    73%

    47And the meeting, after stoning her with stones, will put an end to her with their swords; they will put her sons and daughters to death and have her house burned up with fire.

  • Amos 7:17
    73%

    17So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.

  • Lev 10:14
    73%

    14And the breast which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, you are to take as your food in a clean place; you and your sons and your daughters with you: for they are given to you as your right and your sons' right, from the peace-offerings of the children of Israel.

  • Ezek 26:8
    73%

    8He will put to the sword your daughters in the open country: he will make strong walls against you and put up an earthwork against you, arming himself for war against you.

  • Lam 2:20
    73%

    20Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

  • Lev 26:22
    72%

    22I will let loose the beasts of the field among you, and they will take away your children and send destruction on your cattle, so that your numbers will become small and your roads become waste.

  • Lev 26:33
    72%

    33And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.

  • Deut 12:27
    72%

    27Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your offerings is to be drained out on the altar of the Lord your God, and the flesh will be your food.

  • Deut 28:51
    72%

    51He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

  • 2 Chr 21:14
    72%

    14Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:

  • Jer 31:29
    72%

    29In those days they will no longer say, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are put on edge.

  • Exod 34:16
    72%

    16Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.