Quotes About Nourishment

Then Isaacís servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.

He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

And the steward took the men into Josephís house, gave them water to wash their feet, and provided food for their donkeys.

Then bring your father and your families and return to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat from the fat of the land.í

Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his fatherís household with food for their families.

Asherís food will be rich; he shall provide royal delicacies.

Joseph is a fruitful vine—a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.

“So where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.”

That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.

Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land.

Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.

The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.

When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.

And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.

Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.

Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,

with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.

Sisera said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a container of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again.