Thematic Bible: Victuals
Thematic Bible
Victuals » Kinds prohibited by mosaic law
Now therefore please be careful and drink no wine nor strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing.
"'Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.
But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.
That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am the LORD.
But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."
She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. All that I have commanded her she is to observe."
Victuals » From God
See the birds of the sky, that they do not sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of much more value than they?
Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
Who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.
The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.
He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth:
Victuals » List of articles » Bread
Jesse said to David his son, "Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers;
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly make ready three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little."
Victuals » List of articles » Fish
So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish placed on it, and bread.
They gave him a piece of a broiled fish.
Victuals » List of articles » Butter
Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said, "The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness."
Victuals » List of articles » Oil
He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.
You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;
Victuals » List of articles » Dried fruit
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
Victuals » List of articles » Honey
Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it must be so, then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
Victuals » List of articles » Cheese
and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news."
Victuals » List of articles » Flesh
Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal: the meat he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.
ten head of fat cattle, and twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.
Victuals » List of articles » Fruit
He said, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
The king said to Ziba, "What do you mean by these?" Ziba said, "The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink."
Victuals » List of articles » Quail
The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all abroad for themselves around the camp.
Victuals » List of articles » Vegetables
We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;
Victuals » List of articles » Locusts
Now John himself wore clothing made of camel's hair and with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.