Quotes About Food

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

Now you may wonder, ëWhat will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?í

Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.

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.

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.

Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a dayís journey in every direction around the camp.

So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.

And their meat belongs to you, just as the breast and right thigh of the wave offering belong to you.

“Command the Israelites and say to them: See that you present to Me at its appointed time the food for My offerings by fire, as a pleasing aroma to Me.

You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.í”

You can sell us food to eat and water to drink in exchange for silver. Only let us pass through on foot,

a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.

If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.

Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.

These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,

You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.

Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales,

You may eat any clean bird,

All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.

But you may eat any clean bird.

Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer.

This shall be the priestsí share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.