Judges
11:11-39
Jephthah’s daughter: Whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me . . . shall be the Lord’s, to be offered up by me as a burnt offering. . . . At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to the vow he had made.
Genesis
22:2
Abraham and Isaac: Take your son . . . and offer him there as a burnt offering.
Deuteronomy
21:18–21
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother . . . all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die.
Deuteronomy
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter . . . entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods. . . . thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die.
Leviticus
And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; Then . . . ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
Jeremiah
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.
Leviticus
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
Deuteronomy
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.
Deuteronomy
The most tender and delicately bred woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will grudge to the husband of her bosom, to her son and to her daughter, her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because she will eat them secretly, for want of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
Ezekiel
And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations. 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.
Exodus
You shall not delay to offer from the fulness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. The first-born of your sons you shall give to me. You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.
Zechariah
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land. And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
Lamentations
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
