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Food & Bible

Genesis 1:29 * Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;

Genesis 1:30 * ...and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so.

Genesis 2:9 * Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 3:6 * When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

Genesis 6:21 * "As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them."

Genesis 9:3 * "Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant.

Genesis 14:11 * Then they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food supply, and departed.

Genesis 27:14 * So he went and got them, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made savory food such as his father loved.

Genesis 27:17 * She also gave the savory food and the bread, which she had made, to her son Jacob.

Genesis 27:31 * Then he also made savory food, and brought it to his father; and he said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, that you may bless me."

Genesis 28:20 * Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I take, and will give me food to eat and garments to wear...

Genesis 39:6 * So he left everything he owned in Joseph's charge; and with him there he did not concern himself with anything except the food which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.

Genesis 40:17 * ...and in the top basket there were some of all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head."

Genesis 41:35 * "Then let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up the grain for food in the cities under Pharaoh's authority, and let them guard it.

Genesis 41:36 * "Let the food become as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which will occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land will not perish during the famine."

Genesis 41:48 * So he gathered all the food of these seven years which occurred in the land of Egypt and placed the food in the cities; he placed in every city the food from its own surrounding fields.

Genesis 47:19 * "Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. So give us seed, that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate."

Genesis 47:24 * "At the harvest you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four-fifths shall be your own for seed of the field and for your food and for those of your households and as food for your little ones."

Leviticus 3:11 * 'Then the priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire to the LORD.

Leviticus 21:6 * They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they present the offerings by fire to the LORD, the food of their God; so they shall be holy.

Leviticus 25:37 * You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for gain.

Leviticus 26:5 * Indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. You will thus eat your food to the full and live securely in your land.

Numbers 28:24 * After this manner you shall present daily, for seven days, the food of the offering by fire, of a soothing aroma to the LORD; it shall be presented with its drink offering in addition to the continual burnt offering.

2 Samuel 12:20 * So David arose from the ground, washed, anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he came into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he came to his own house, and when he requested, they set food before him and he ate.

2 Samuel 13:10 * Then Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food into the bedroom, that I may eat from your hand." So Tamar took the cakes which she had made and brought them into the bedroom to her brother Amnon.

1 Kings 5:11 * Solomon then gave Hiram 20,000 kors of wheat as food for his household, and twenty kors of beaten oil; thus Solomon would give Hiram year by year.

1 Kings 19:8 * So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.

2 Kings 4:40 * So they poured it out for the men to eat. And as they were eating of the stew, they cried out and said, "O man of God, there is death in the pot." And they were unable to eat.

2 Kings 25:3 * On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

1 Chronicles 12:40 * Moreover those who were near to them, even as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, camels, mules and on oxen, great quantities of flour cakes, fig cakes and bunches of raisins, wine, oil, oxen and sheep. There was joy indeed in Israel.

Nehemiah 13:15 * In those days I saw in Judah some who were treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sacks of grain and loading them on donkeys, as well as wine, grapes, figs and all kinds of loads, and they brought them into Jerusalem on the sabbath day. So I admonished them on the day they sold food.

Esther 2:9 * Now the young lady pleased him and found favor with him. So he quickly provided her with her cosmetics and food, gave her seven choice maids from the king's palace and transferred her and her maids to the best place in the harem.

Esther 9:19 * Therefore the Jews of the rural areas, who live in the rural towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a holiday for rejoicing and feasting and sending portions of food to one another.

Esther 9:22 * because on those days the Jews rid themselves of their enemies, and it was a month which was turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and rejoicing and sending portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

Job 3:24 * For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries pour out like water.

Job 15:23 * He wanders about for food, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is at hand.

Job 20:14 * Yet his food in his stomach is changed To the venom of cobras within him.

Job 28:5 * The earth, from it comes food, And underneath it is turned up as fire.

Job 34:3 * For the ear tests words As the palate tastes food.

Job 36:31 * For by these He judges peoples; He gives food in abundance.

Job 38:41 * Who prepares for the raven its nourishment When its young cry to God And wander about without food?

Psalms 42:3 * My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

Psalms 78:24 * He rained down manna upon them to eat And gave them food from heaven.

Psalms 78:25 * Man did eat the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.

Psalms 79:2 * They have given the dead bodies of Your servants for food to the birds of the heavens, The flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth.

Psalms 104:14 * He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the labor of man, So that he may bring forth food from the earth...

Psalms 104:15 * And wine which makes man's heart glad, So that he may make his face glisten with oil, And food which sustains man's heart.

Psalms 104:21 * The young lions roar after their prey And seek their food from God.

Psalms 104:27 * They all wait for You To give them their food in due season.

Psalms 107:18 * Their soul abhorred all kinds of food, And they drew near to the gates of death.

Psalms 111:5 * He has given food to those who fear Him; He will remember His covenant forever.

Psalms 136:25 * Who gives food to all flesh, For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

Psalms 145:15 * The eyes of all look to You, And You give them their food in due time.

Psalms 146:7 * Who executes justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free.

Psalms 147:9 * He gives to the beast its food, And to the young ravens which cry.

Proverbs 6:8 * Prepares her food in the summer And gathers her provision in the harvest.

Proverbs 9:2 * She has prepared her food, she has mixed her wine; She has also set her table...

Proverbs 13:23 * Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, But it is swept away by injustice.

Proverbs 20:13 * Do not love sleep, or you will become poor; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.

Proverbs 22:9 * He who is generous will be blessed, For he gives some of his food to the poor.

Proverbs 23:3 * Do not desire his delicacies, For it is deceptive food.

Proverbs 25:21 * If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.

Proverbs 28:3 * A poor man who oppresses the lowly Is like a driving rain which leaves no food.

Proverbs 28:19 * He who tills his land will have plenty of food, But he who follows empty pursuits will have poverty in plenty.

Proverbs 30:8 * Keep deception and lies far from me, Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is my portion.

Proverbs 30:22 * Under a slave when he becomes king, And a fool when he is satisfied with food...

Proverbs 30:25 * The ants are not a strong people, But they prepare their food in the summer.

Isaiah 29:8 * It will be as when a hungry man dreams-- And behold, he is eating; But when he awakens, his hunger is not satisfied, Or as when a thirsty man dreams-- And behold, he is drinking, But when he awakens, behold, he is faint And his thirst is not quenched. Thus the multitude of all the nations will be Who wage war against Mount Zion.

Isaiah 62:8 * The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His strong arm, "I will never again give your grain as food for your enemies; Nor will foreigners drink your new wine for which you have labored."

Isaiah 65:25 * "The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent's food. They will do no evil or harm in all My holy mountain," says the LORD.

Jeremiah 5:17 * They will devour your harvest and your food; They will devour your sons and your daughters; They will devour your flocks and your herds; They will devour your vines and your fig trees; They will demolish with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust.

Jeremiah 16:4 * "They will die of deadly diseases, they will not be lamented or buried; they will be as dung on the surface of the ground and come to an end by sword and famine, and their carcasses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth."

Lamentations 1:11 * All her people groan seeking bread; They have given their precious things for food To restore their lives themselves. "See, O LORD, and look, For I am despised."

Ezekiel 4:10 * "Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.

Ezekiel 16:49 * "Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy."

Ezekiel 29:5 * "I will abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers; You will fall on the open field; you will not be brought together or gathered. I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky."

Ezekiel 47:12 * "By the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail. They will bear every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing."

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