15 Bible Verses about Food Defined
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And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:
Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;
Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.
And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.
And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.
As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.
Say to the children of Israel: These are the living things which you may have for food among all the beasts on the earth.
Marking out the unclean from the clean, and the living thing which may be used for food from that which may not.
Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it. But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.
When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.
And by the edge of the river, on this side and on that, will come up every tree used for food, whose leaves will ever be green and its fruit will not come to an end: it will have new fruit every month, because its waters come out from the holy place: the fruit will be for food and the leaf will make well those who are ill.
One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.