Quotes About Sustenance

But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.

and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.

While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth yearís harvest comes in.

Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?

We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”

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.

Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ëGive us meat to eat!í

You will eat it not for one or two days, nor for five or ten or twenty days,

All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.

Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”

and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”

The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock.

Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.

Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.

He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.

the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.

For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

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.

And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.