Leviticus 26:29
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29 till you begin to eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.(A)
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2 Kings 6:28-29
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28 Then the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She replied: “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son that we may eat him today; then tomorrow we will eat my son.’ 29 So we boiled my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Now give up your son that we may eat him.’ But she hid her son.”
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Jeremiah 19:9
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9 I will have them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters; they shall eat one another’s flesh during the harsh siege under which their enemies and those who seek their lives will confine them.(A)
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Lamentations 2:20
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20 “Look, O Lord, and pay attention:
to whom have you been so ruthless?
Must women eat their own offspring,[a]
the very children they have borne?
Are priest and prophet to be slain
in the sanctuary of the Lord?(A)
Lamentations 4:10
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10 The hands of compassionate women
have boiled their own children!
They became their food
when the daughter of my people was shattered.(A)
Baruch 2:3
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3 that we would each eat[a] the flesh of our sons, each the flesh of our daughters.
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