43 Bible Verses about cooking

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Ezekiel 4:12

You will eat it as you would a barley cake and bake it over dried human excrement in their sight.”

Ezekiel 11:3

They are saying, ‘Isn’t the time near to build houses? The city is the pot, and we are the meat.’

Genesis 27:31

He had also made some delicious food and brought it to his father. Then he said to his father, “Let my father get up and eat some of his son’s game, so that you may bless me.”

1 Kings 17:12

But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I don’t have anything baked—only a handful of flour in the jar and a bit of oil in the jug. Just now, I am gathering a couple of sticks in order to go prepare it for myself and my son so we can eat it and die.”

John 21:9

When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread.

Ezekiel 46:24

He said to me: “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple will cook the people’s sacrifices.”

Leviticus 26:26

When I cut off your supply of bread, 10 women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

2 Kings 6:29

So we boiled my son and ate him, and I said to her the next day, ‘Give up your son, and we will eat him,’ but she has hidden her son.”

Genesis 25:29

Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field exhausted.

Deuteronomy 16:7

You are to cook and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses, and you are to return to your tents in the morning.

Isaiah 44:15

It serves as fuel for man.
He takes some of it and warms himself;
also he kindles a fire and bakes bread;
he even makes it into a god and worships it;
he makes an idol from it and bows down to it.

Micah 3:3

You eat the flesh of my people
after you strip their skin from them
and break their bones.
You chop them up
like flesh for the cooking pot,
like meat in a cauldron.”

Exodus 16:23

He told them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil, and set aside everything left over to be kept until morning.’”

1 Kings 19:6

Then he looked, and there at his head was a loaf of bread baked over hot stones, and a jug of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.

Ezekiel 4:15

He replied to me, “Look, I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you can make your bread over that.”

Exodus 12:8

They are to eat the meat that night; they should eat it, roasted over the fire along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Exodus 35:3

Do not light a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.”

Exodus 12:9

Do not eat any of it raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over fire—its head as well as its legs and inner organs.

Jeremiah 1:13

Again the word of the Lord came to me inquiring, “What do you see?”

And I replied, “I see a boiling pot, its lip tilted from the north to the south.”

Leviticus 11:35

Anything one of their carcasses falls on will become unclean. If it is an oven or stove, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.

Luke 10:40

But Martha was distracted by her many tasks, and she came up and asked, “Lord, don’t You care that my sister has left me to serve alone? So tell her to give me a hand.”

Ezekiel 24:4

Place the pieces of meat in it,
every good piece—
thigh and shoulder.
Fill it with choice bones.

1 Kings 17:13

Then Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid; go and do as you have said. But first make me a small loaf from it and bring it out to me. Afterward, you may make some for yourself and your son,

Zechariah 14:20

On that day, the words

HOLY TO THE LORD

will be on the bells of the horses. The pots in the house of the Lord will be like the sprinkling basins before the altar.

Lamentations 4:10

י YodThe hands of compassionate women
have cooked their own children;
they became their food
during the destruction of my dear people.

Leviticus 2:7

If your gift is a grain offering prepared in a pan, it must be made of fine flour with oil.

Ezekiel 11:11

The city will not be a pot for you, and you will not be the meat within it. I will judge you at the border of Israel,

2 Kings 4:40

They served some for the men to eat, but when they ate the stew they cried out, “There’s death in the pot, man of God!” And they were unable to eat it.

Luke 24:42

So they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish,

Numbers 11:8

The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil.

1 Kings 19:5

Then he lay down and slept under the broom tree.

Suddenly, an angel touched him. The angel told him, “Get up and eat.”

1 Chronicles 9:31

A Levite called Mattithiah, the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with baking the bread.

1 Samuel 8:13

He can take your daughters to become perfumers, cooks, and bakers.

Zechariah 14:21

Every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of Hosts. Everyone who sacrifices will come and take some of the pots to cook in. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of Hosts.

1 Kings 17:16

The flour jar did not become empty, and the oil jug did not run dry, according to the word of the Lord He had spoken through Elijah.

Leviticus 6:21

It is to be prepared with oil on a griddle; you are to bring it well-kneaded. You must present it as a grain offering of baked pieces, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

Leviticus 7:9

Any grain offering that is baked in an oven or prepared in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it; it is his.

John 21:12

“Come and have breakfast,” Jesus told them. None of the disciples dared ask Him, “Who are You?” because they knew it was the Lord.

Exodus 12:16

You are to hold a sacred assembly on the first day and another sacred assembly on the seventh day. No work may be done on those days except for preparing what people need to eat—you may do only that.

From Thematic Bible


Cooking » In the temple

Ezekiel 46:19-24

Then he brought me through the entrance that was at the side of the gate, into the priests' holy chambers, which faced north. I saw a place there at the far western end. He said to me, "This is the place where the priests will boil the restitution offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring [them] into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people." Next he brought me into the outer court and led me past its four corners. There was a [separate] court in each of its corners. read more.
In the four corners of the [outer] court there were enclosed courts, 70 [feet] long by 52 and a half [feet] wide. All four corner areas had the same dimensions. There was a [stone] wall around the inside of them, around the four of them, with ovens built at the base of the walls on all sides. He said to me: "These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple will cook the people's sacrifices."

Cooking » Spice used in

Ezekiel 24:10

Pile on the logs and kindle the fire!
Cook the meat well
and mix in the spices!
Let the bones be burned!

Cooking » Instructions » Goats

Deuteronomy 14:21

“You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to a temporary resident living within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Cooking » Ephraim, a cake unturned

Hosea 7:8

Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations.
Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.

Symbols and similitudes » Cooking

Ezekiel 24:3-5

Now speak a parable to the rebellious house. Tell them: This is what the Lord God says: Put the pot on [the fire]- put [it] on, and then pour water into it! Place the pieces of meat in it, every good piece- thigh and shoulder. Fill it with choice bones. Take the choicest of the flock and also pile up the fuel under it. Bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it."

Jeremiah 1:13

Again the word of the Lord came to me inquiring, “What do you see?”

And I replied, “I see a boiling pot, its lip tilted from the north to the south.”

Ezekiel 4:9-15

"Also take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. Put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the number of days you lie on your side, 390 days. The food you eat each day will be eight ounces by weight; you will eat it from time to time. You are also to drink water by measure, one-sixth of a gallon, [which] you will drink from time to time. read more.
You will eat it as [you would] a barley cake and bake it over dried human excrement in their sight." The Lord said, "This is how the Israelites will eat their bread-ceremonially unclean-among the nations where I will banish them." But I said, "Ah, Lord God , I have never been defiled. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts. And impure meat has never entered my mouth." He replied to me, "Look, I will let you [use] cow dung instead of human excrement, and you can make your bread over that."

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Cooking, Methods

Genesis 19:3

But he urged them so strongly that they followed him and went into his house. He prepared a feast and baked unleavened bread for them, and they ate.

Cooking, Types Of Food

Ezekiel 24:10

Pile on the logs and kindle the fire!
Cook the meat well
and mix in the spices!
Let the bones be burned!

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