15 Bible Verses about Food Defined

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food:

thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; As the green herb have I given you all.

And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat:

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for food: and it was so.

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the living things which ye may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.

to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.

Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart. Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

When Jehovah thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all the desire of thy soul.

And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not whither, neither shall the fruit thereof fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because the waters thereof issue out of the sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall be for food, and the leaf thereof for healing.

One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs.