²⁹ So we cooked my son and ate^(A) him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.”

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.^(A)

²⁹ You will eat^(A) the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.^(B)

²⁶ The woman whose son was alive was deeply moved^(A) out of love for her son and said to the king, “Please, my lord, give her the living baby! Don’t kill him!”

But the other said, “Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two!”

⁵⁷ the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them^(A) secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.