15 Bible Verses about Food Defined

And God said, Behold, I have given you every grass bearing 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 grass of the field;

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; even as the green grass I have given you all things.

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

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou may freely eat;

And the woman answered unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was desirable to the eyes, and a tree of covetousness to understand, she took of its fruit and ate and gave also unto her husband with her; and he ate.

And to every beast of the earth and to every fowl of the air and to every thing that moves upon the earth, in which there is a living soul, I have given all green grass for food; and it was so.

Land out of which bread comes forth, and underneath it shall be as if it were converted in fire.

Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, These are the animals which ye shall eat among all the animals that are on the earth.

to make a difference between the unclean and the clean and between the animals that may be eaten and the animals that may not be eaten.

Notwithstanding, thou may kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, according to the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he has given thee; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck and as of the hart. Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he has promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul desires to eat flesh, according to all the desire of thy soul thou shalt eat flesh.

And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow every fruitful tree for food, whose leaf shall not fall, neither shall its fruit be lacking; it shall bring forth mature fruit in its months, because their waters come forth out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for medicine.

For one believes that he may eat all things; another, who is sick, eats vegetables.