24 Bible Verses about Remaining Food

Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal of approval on Him.”

If any is eaten on the third day, it is a repulsive thing; it will not be accepted.

They ate and were filled. Then they collected seven large baskets of leftover pieces.

Moses said to them, “No one is to let any of it remain until morning.” But they didn’t listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and smelled. Therefore Moses was angry with them.

At mealtime Boaz told her, “Come over here and have some bread and dip it in the vinegar sauce.” So she sat beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain. She ate and was satisfied and had some left over.

She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. Then she brought out what she had left over from her meal and gave it to her.

Everyone ate and was filled. Then they picked up 12 baskets full of leftover pieces!

Then they picked up 12 baskets full of pieces of bread and fish.

When I broke the five loaves for the 5,000, how many baskets full of pieces of bread did you collect?”

“Twelve,” they told Him.

Everyone ate and was filled. Then they picked up 12 baskets of leftover pieces.

So they collected them and filled 12 baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.

They all ate and were filled. Then they collected the leftover pieces—seven large baskets full.

“When I broke the seven loaves for the 4,000, how many large baskets full of pieces of bread did you collect?”

“Seven,” they said.

When they were full, He told His disciples, “Collect the leftovers so that nothing is wasted.”

Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected? Or the seven loaves for the 4,000 and how many large baskets you collected?

They will cover the surface of the land so that no one will be able to see the land. They will eat the remainder left to you that escaped the hail; they will eat every tree you have growing in the fields.

The Lord then said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt and the locusts will come up over it and eat every plant in the land, everything that the hail left.”

They covered the surface of the whole land so that the land was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green was left on the trees or the plants in the field throughout the land of Egypt.

Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. God has repaid me for what I have done.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

You profane Me in front of My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread; you kill those who should not die and spare those who should not live, when you lie to My people, who listen to lies.

“Yes, Lord,” she said, “yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table!”

But she replied to Him, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

He longed to be filled with what fell from the rich man’s table, but instead the dogs would come and lick his sores.

What the devouring locust has left,
the swarming locust has eaten;
what the swarming locust has left,
the young locust has eaten;
and what the young locust has left,
the destroying locust has eaten.