FOOD

Passages on this topic · 108

• Genesis 1:29

  God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

• Genesis 1:30

  To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

• Genesis 9:3

  Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

• Genesis 18:5

  I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.” They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”

• Genesis 18:8

  He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

• Genesis 18:9

  They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “See, in the tent.”

• Genesis 27:9

  Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

• Genesis 48:15

  He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

• Genesis 49:12

  His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.

• Exodus 22:31

  “You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any meat that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.

• Leviticus 11:1

  Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,

• Leviticus 11:2

  “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.

• Leviticus 11:3

  Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.

• Leviticus 11:4

  “‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.

• Leviticus 11:5

  The cony, because he chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.

• Leviticus 11:6

  The hare, because she chews the cud but doesn’t part the hoof, she is unclean to you.

• Leviticus 11:7

  The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, he is unclean to you.

• Leviticus 11:8

  Of their meat you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.

• Leviticus 11:9

  “‘These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.

• Leviticus 11:10

  All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,

• Leviticus 11:11

  and you detest them. You shall not eat of their meat, and you shall detest their carcasses.

• Leviticus 11:12

  Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.

• Leviticus 11:13

  “‘These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture,

• Leviticus 11:14

  and the red kite, any kind of black kite,

• Leviticus 11:15

  any kind of raven,

• Leviticus 11:16

  the horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk,

• Leviticus 11:17

  the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,

• Leviticus 11:18

  the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,

• Leviticus 11:19

  the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

• Leviticus 11:20

  “‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.

• Leviticus 11:21

  Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to hop on the earth.

• Leviticus 11:22

  Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.

• Leviticus 11:23

  But all winged creeping things which have four feet, are an abomination to you.

• Leviticus 11:24

  “‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 11:25

  Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 11:26

  “‘Every animal which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 11:27

  Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 11:28

  He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.

• Leviticus 11:29

  “‘These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,

• Leviticus 11:30

  the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.

• Leviticus 11:31

  These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 11:32

  On whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.

• Leviticus 11:33

  Every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.

• Leviticus 11:34

  All food which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 11:35

  Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

• Leviticus 11:36

  Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 11:37

  If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

• Leviticus 11:38

  But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

• Leviticus 11:39

  “‘If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 11:40

  He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 11:41

  “‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.

• Leviticus 11:42

  Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

• Leviticus 11:43

  You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps. You shall not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby.

• Leviticus 11:44

  For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

• Leviticus 11:45

  For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

• Leviticus 11:46

  “‘This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,

• Leviticus 11:47

  to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’”

• Leviticus 17:13

  “‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.

• Leviticus 17:14

  For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the children of Israel, “You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”

• Leviticus 17:15

  “‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.

• Numbers 6:3

  he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.

• Deuteronomy 12:17

  You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;

• Deuteronomy 32:14

  butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.

• Ruth 2:14

  At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left some of it.

• 1 Samuel 5:1

  Now the Philistines had taken God’s ark, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

• 1 Samuel 8:13

  He will take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers.

• 1 Samuel 17:17

  Jesse said to David his son, “Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers;

• 1 Samuel 17:18

  and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news.”

• 1 Samuel 25:18

  Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

• 1 Samuel 30:12

  They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, and drank no water for three days and three nights.

• 2 Samuel 6:19

  He gave to all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed, each to his own house.

• 2 Samuel 16:2

  The king said to Ziba, “What do you mean by these?” Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.”

• 2 Samuel 17:29

  honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

• Esther 1:3

  in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him.

• Esther 1:9

  Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

• Job 10:10

  Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

• Psalms 23:5

  You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

• Psalms 103:5

  who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

• Psalms 104:14

  He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:

• Psalms 104:15

  wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.

• Psalms 111:5

  He has given food to those who fear him. He always remembers his covenant.

• Psalms 136:25

  Who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.

• Psalms 145:15

  The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

• Psalms 147:9

  He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

• Proverbs 9:2

  She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. She has also set her table.

• Proverbs 15:17

  Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

• Proverbs 21:17

  He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

• Proverbs 27:27

  There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.

• Proverbs 30:8

  Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

• Proverbs 31:15

  She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.

• Isaiah 3:1

  For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water;

• Isaiah 7:15

  He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

• Ezekiel 16:13

  Thus you were decked with gold and silver. Your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered work. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.

• Matthew 6:11

  Give us today our daily bread.

• Matthew 7:10

  Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?

• Matthew 26:30

  When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

• Mark 8:6

  He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.

• Luke 24:42

  They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.

• John 2:3

  When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.”

• John 2:10

  and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!”

• Acts 27:35

  When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it, and began to eat.

• Romans 14:2

  One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

• Romans 14:14

  I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

• Romans 14:21

  It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

• 1 Timothy 4:3

  forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

• 1 Timothy 4:4

  For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

• 1 Timothy 4:5

  For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

• Hebrews 6:7

  For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;