Quotes About Food

This food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine.”

During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.

the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.

And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”

“Not so, my lord,” they replied. “Your servants have come to buy food.

So when Jacobís sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”

If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

“Please, sir,” they said, “we really did come down here the first time to buy food.

We have brought additional silver with us to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks.”

Then Joseph instructed his steward: “Fill the menís sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each oneís silver in the mouth of his sack.

Then our father said, ëGo back and buy us some food.í

There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.

“Then bring me your livestock,” said Joseph. “Since the money is gone, I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock.”

So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their flocks and herds, and their donkeys. Throughout that year he provided them with food in exchange for all their livestock.

Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”

At harvest time, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and food for yourselves and your households and children.”

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

(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

You are to be My holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; you are to throw it to the dogs.

Then the priest is to burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Aaron and his sons are to eat the remainder. It must be eaten without leaven in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.

Every grain offering for a priest shall be burned completely; it is not to be eaten.”

The priest who offers it shall eat it; it must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.

Any male among the priests may eat it; it is most holy.