38 Bible Verses about Bread

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John 6:51

I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.

Ezekiel 4:9

And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and make bread for yourself from them; all the days when you are stretched on your side it will be your food.

Matthew 7:9

Or which of you, if his son makes a request for bread, will give him a stone?

1 Corinthians 11:27

If, then, anyone takes the bread or the cup of the Lord in the wrong spirit, he will be responsible for the body and blood of the Lord.

Luke 11:11

And which of you, being a father, will give a stone to his son, who makes request for bread? or for a fish, will give him a snake?

Luke 11:5

And he said to them, Which of you, having a friend, would go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, Friend, let me have three cakes of bread;

Luke 9:16

And he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing over them, and when they had been broken, he gave them to the disciples to give to the people.

John 6:31

Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

Joshua 9:12

This bread which we have with us for our food, we took warm and new from our houses when starting on our journey to you; but now see, it has become dry and broken up.

Ecclesiastes 11:1

Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.

Matthew 15:26

And he made answer and said, It is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.

1 Corinthians 11:23

For it was handed down to me from the Lord, as I gave it to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night when Judas was false to him, took bread,

1 Kings 17:13

And Elijah said to her, Have no fear; go and do as you have said, but first make me a little cake of it and come and give it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.

Deuteronomy 8:3

And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord.

Amos 8:11

See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.

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Bread » Hallowed

Numbers 4:7

And on the table of the holy bread they are to put a blue cloth, and on it all the vessels, the spoons and the basins and the cups; and the holy bread with them;

Exodus 25:30

And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread.

Leviticus 24:5

And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake.

1 Samuel 21:6

So the priest gave him the holy bread: there was no other, only the holy bread which had been taken from before the Lord, so that new bread might be put in its place on the day when it was taken away.

1 Chronicles 9:32

And some of their brothers, sons of the Kohathites, were responsible for the holy bread which was put in order before the Lord, to get it ready every Sabbath.

Bread » General references to

2 Kings 4:42

Now a man came from Baal-shalishah with an offering of first-fruits for the man of God, twenty barley cakes and garden fruit in his bag. And he said, Give these to the people for food.

1 Samuel 16:20

And Jesse took five cakes of bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them to Saul by David.

Genesis 18:5

And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.

Bread » Baking of

1 Samuel 28:24

And the woman had in the house a young cow, made fat for food; and she put it to death straight away; and she took meal and got it mixed and made unleavened bread;

Genesis 18:6

Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

Exodus 16:23

And he said, This is what the Lord has said, Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord: what has to be cooked may be cooked; and what is over, put on one side to be kept till the morning.

Leviticus 2:4

And when you give a meal offering cooked in the oven, let it be of unleavened cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, or thin unleavened cakes covered with oil.

Leviticus 26:26

When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

More verses: 1 Kings 19:6 Isaiah 44:15

Bread » How prepared » Kneaded

Hosea 7:4

They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.

1 Samuel 28:24

And the woman had in the house a young cow, made fat for food; and she put it to death straight away; and she took meal and got it mixed and made unleavened bread;

Genesis 18:6

Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

Jeremiah 7:18

The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.

Exodus 8:3

The Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up into your house and into your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and into your bread-basins.

Bread » Breaking of

Matthew 14:19

And he gave orders for the people to be seated on the grass; and he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing, and made division of the food, and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.

Acts 27:35

And when he had said this and had taken bread, he gave praise to God before them all, and took a meal of the broken bread.

Luke 24:30

And when he was seated with them at table, he took the bread, and said words of blessing and, making division of it, he gave it to them.

Acts 20:11

And when he had gone up, and had taken the broken bread, he went on talking to them for a long time, even till dawn, and then he went away.

Bread » The principal food used by the ancients

Genesis 21:14

And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

Genesis 18:5

And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.

Genesis 27:17

And she gave into the hand of Jacob, her son, the meat and the bread which she had made ready.

Judges 19:5

Now on the fourth day they got up early in the morning and he made ready to go away; but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, Take a little food to keep up your strength, and then go on your way.

Bread » Often given as a present

1 Samuel 25:18

Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.

2 Samuel 16:12

It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.

1 Chronicles 12:40

And those who were near, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came with food on asses and camels and mules and oxen, with meal for food and cakes of figs and masses of grapes, and wine and oil and oxen and sheep in great numbers, for there was joy in Israel.

Bread » Illustrative » (seeking of begging,) of extreme poverty

1 Samuel 2:36

Then it will be that the rest of your family, anyone who has not been cut off, will go down on his knees to him for a bit of silver or a bit of bread, and say, Be pleased to put me into one of the priest's places so that I may have a little food.

Lamentations 1:11

Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.

Bread » Sacrificed

1 Samuel 2:36

Then it will be that the rest of your family, anyone who has not been cut off, will go down on his knees to him for a bit of silver or a bit of bread, and say, Be pleased to put me into one of the priest's places so that I may have a little food.

Leviticus 21:6

Let them be holy to their God and not make the name of their God common; for the fire offerings of the Lord and the bread of their God are offered by them, and they are to be holy.

Leviticus 21:8

And he is to be holy in your eyes, for by him the bread of your God is offered; he is to be holy in your eyes, for I the Lord, who make you holy, am holy.

Leviticus 21:17

Say to Aaron, If a man of your family, in any generation, is damaged in body, let him not come near to make the offering of the bread of his God.

Leviticus 21:21-22

No man of the offspring of Aaron whose body is damaged in any way may come near to give the fire offerings of the Lord: he is damaged, he may not come near to make the offerings. He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy;

Bread » How prepared » Made into loaves

1 Samuel 17:17

And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;

1 Samuel 25:18

Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.

1 Samuel 10:3

Then you are to go on from there, and when you come to the oak-tree of Tabor, you will see three men going up to God to Beth-el, one having with him three young goats and another three cakes of bread and another a skin full of wine:

1 Kings 14:3

And take with you ten cakes of bread and dry cakes and a pot of honey, and go to him: he will give you word of what is to become of the child.

Mark 8:14

And they had taken no thought to get bread; and they had only one cake of bread with them in the boat.

Bread » How prepared » Baked in ovens

Hosea 7:4

They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.

Leviticus 2:4

And when you give a meal offering cooked in the oven, let it be of unleavened cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, or thin unleavened cakes covered with oil.

Leviticus 26:26

When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

Exodus 8:3

The Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up into your house and into your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and into your bread-basins.

Leviticus 7:9

And every meal offering which is cooked in the oven and everything made in a cooking pot or on a flat plate, is for the priest by whom it is offered.

More verses: Leviticus 11:35

Bread » Staff of life

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:

Ezekiel 5:16

When I send on you the evil arrows of disease, causing destruction, which I will send to put an end to you; and, further, I will take away your necessary food.

Ezekiel 4:16

And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:

Bread » Kinds of » Leavened (made with yeast)

Hosea 7:4

They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.

Leviticus 7:13

With his peace-offering let him give cakes of leavened bread, as a praise-offering.

Leviticus 23:17

Take from your houses two cakes of bread, made of a fifth part of an ephah of the best meal, cooked with leaven, to be waved for first-fruits to the Lord.

Amos 4:5

Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.

Matthew 13:33

Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

Bread » Often put for the whole sustenance of man

Genesis 39:6

And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything, but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face.

Bread » Kinds of » Bread of affliction

Isaiah 30:20

And though the Lord will give you the bread of trouble and the water of grief, you will no longer put your teacher on one side, but you will see your teacher:

1 Kings 22:27

And say, It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.

Hosea 9:4

They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.

Bread » Scarceness of, sent as a punishment

Ezekiel 5:16

When I send on you the evil arrows of disease, causing destruction, which I will send to put an end to you; and, further, I will take away your necessary food.

Psalm 105:16

And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.

Isaiah 3:1

For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;

Bread » Was kneaded

Hosea 7:4

They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.

Genesis 18:6

Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

Jeremiah 7:18

The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.

Bread » Illustrative » (when broken,) of the death of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:23-24

For it was handed down to me from the Lord, as I gave it to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night when Judas was false to him, took bread, And when it had been broken with an act of praise, he said, This is my body which is for you: do this in memory of me.

Bread » Kinds of » Unleavened (made without yeast)

1 Samuel 28:24

And the woman had in the house a young cow, made fat for food; and she put it to death straight away; and she took meal and got it mixed and made unleavened bread;

Exodus 29:2

And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal;

Genesis 19:3

But he made his request more strongly, so they went with him into his house; and he got food ready for them, and made unleavened bread, of which they took.

Judges 6:19

Then Gideon went in and made ready a young goat, and with an ephah of meal he made unleavened cakes: he put the meat in a basket and the soup in which it had been cooked he put in a pot, and he took it out to him under the oak-tree and gave it to him there.

Bread » Multitudes miraculously fed by Christ with

Matthew 14:19-21

And he gave orders for the people to be seated on the grass; and he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing, and made division of the food, and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people. And they all took of the food and had enough: and they took up twelve baskets full of broken bits which were not used. And those who had food were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children.

Matthew 15:34-37

And Jesus says to them, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes, and some small fishes. Then he gave an order to the people to be seated on the earth, And he took the seven cakes of bread and the fishes; and having given praise, he gave the broken bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people. read more.
And they all took food, and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits, seven baskets full.

Bread » Made of wheat flour

1 Kings 5:11

And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of grain, as food for his people, and twenty measures of clear oil; this he did every year.

Exodus 29:2

And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal;

1 Kings 4:22

And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;

Psalm 81:16

I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.

Bread » Symbolical » Of the body of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:23-24

For it was handed down to me from the Lord, as I gave it to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night when Judas was false to him, took bread, And when it had been broken with an act of praise, he said, This is my body which is for you: do this in memory of me.

Acts 20:7

And on the first day of the week, when we had come together for the holy meal, Paul gave them a talk, for it was his purpose to go away on the day after; and he went on talking till after the middle of the night.

Bread » Sometimes unleavened

Exodus 12:18

In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month.

1 Corinthians 5:8

Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.

Bread » Broken for use

Matthew 14:19

And he gave orders for the people to be seated on the grass; and he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing, and made division of the food, and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.

Lamentations 4:4

The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

Bread » Illustrative » (partaking of,) of communion of saints

1 Corinthians 10:17

Because we, being a number of persons, are one bread, we are one body: for we all take part in the one bread.

Bread » Usually leavened

Leviticus 23:17

Take from your houses two cakes of bread, made of a fifth part of an ephah of the best meal, cooked with leaven, to be waved for first-fruits to the Lord.

Matthew 13:33

Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

Bread » How prepared » On coals

1 Kings 19:6

And looking up, he saw by his head a cake cooked on the stones and a bottle of water. So he took food and drink and went to sleep again.

Isaiah 44:19

And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

John 21:9

When they got to land, they saw a fire of coals there, with fish cooking on it, and bread.

Bread » Figurative

1 Corinthians 10:17

Because we, being a number of persons, are one bread, we are one body: for we all take part in the one bread.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

Bread » In times of scarcity, sold by weight

Leviticus 26:26

When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

Ezekiel 4:16

And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:

Bread » Was formed into » Cakes

2 Samuel 6:19

And he gave to every man and woman among all the people, among all the masses of Israel, a cake of bread and a measure of wine and a cake of dry grapes. Then all the people went away, every man to his house.

1 Kings 17:13

And Elijah said to her, Have no fear; go and do as you have said, but first make me a little cake of it and come and give it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.

Bread » Was baked » In ovens

Leviticus 26:26

When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

Hosea 7:4-7

They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened. On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride. For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire. read more.
They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.

Bread » Made by women

1 Samuel 8:13

Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers.

Leviticus 26:26

When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

Jeremiah 7:18

The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.

Bread » Sacred, called hallowed bread

1 Samuel 21:6

So the priest gave him the holy bread: there was no other, only the holy bread which had been taken from before the Lord, so that new bread might be put in its place on the day when it was taken away.

1 Samuel 21:4

And the priest, answering David, said, I have no common bread here but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.

Bread » Making of, a trade

Jeremiah 37:21

Then by the order of Zedekiah the king, Jeremiah was put into the place of the armed watchmen, and they gave him every day a cake of bread from the street of the bread-makers, till all the bread in the town was used up. So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen.

Genesis 40:2

And Pharaoh was angry with his two servants, with the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker;

Bread » Publicly sold

Matthew 14:15

And when evening had come, the disciples came to him, saying, This place is waste land, and the time is now past; send the people away so that they may go into the towns and get themselves food.

Matthew 15:33

And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?

Bread » Kept in baskets

Genesis 40:16

Now when the chief bread-maker saw that the first dream had a good sense, he said to Joseph, I had a dream; and in my dream there were three baskets of white bread on my head;

Exodus 29:32

And let Aaron and his sons make a meal of it, with the bread in the basket, at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Bread » Was formed into » Wafers

Exodus 16:31

And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and its taste was like cakes made with honey.

Exodus 29:23

And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord:

Bread » Illustrative » (want of,) of extreme poverty

Proverbs 12:9

He who is of low position and has a servant, is better than one who has a high opinion of himself and is in need of bread.

Isaiah 3:7

Then he will say with an oath, I will not be a helper, for in my house there is no bread or clothing: I will not let you make me a ruler of the people.

Bread » Crumb of, used to wipe the fingers, thrown under the table

Luke 16:21

Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds.

Matthew 15:27

But she said, Yes, Lord: but even the dogs take the bits from under their masters' table.

Bread » Offered with sacrifices

Exodus 29:2

And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal;

Exodus 29:23

And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord:

Bread » Made of » Wheat

Exodus 29:2

And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal;

Psalm 81:16

I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.

Bread » Was baked » On coals of fire

Isaiah 44:19

And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

John 21:9

When they got to land, they saw a fire of coals there, with fish cooking on it, and bread.

Bread » When old, dry and mouldy

Joshua 9:5

And put old stitched-up shoes on their feet, and old clothing on their backs; and all the food they had with them was dry and broken up.

Joshua 9:12

This bread which we have with us for our food, we took warm and new from our houses when starting on our journey to you; but now see, it has become dry and broken up.

Bread » Yielded by the earth

Job 28:5

As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.

Isaiah 55:10

For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;

Bread » Given by God

Ruth 1:6

So she and her daughters-in-law got ready to go back from the country of Moab, for news had come to her in the country of Moab that the Lord, in mercy for his people, had given them food.

Bread » Made of » Barley

Judges 7:13

When Gideon came there, a man was giving his friend an account of his dream, saying, See, I had a dream about a cake of barley bread which, falling into the tents of Midian, came on to the tent, overturning it so that it was stretched out flat on the earth.

Bread » Called the staff of life

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:

Ezekiel 5:16

When I send on you the evil arrows of disease, causing destruction, which I will send to put an end to you; and, further, I will take away your necessary food.

Ezekiel 4:16

And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:

Bread » How prepared » In pans

Leviticus 2:5

And if you give a meal offering cooked on a flat plate, let it be of the best meal, unleavened and mixed with oil.

Leviticus 2:7

And if your offering is of meal cooked in fat over the fire, let it be made of the best meal mixed with oil.

2 Samuel 13:6-9

So Amnon went to bed and made himself seem ill: and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, Please let my sister Tamar come and make me one or two cakes before my eyes, so that I may take food from her hand. Then David sent to the house for Tamar and said, Go now to your brother Amnon's house and get a meal for him. So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was in bed. And she took paste and made cakes before his eyes, cooking them over the fire. read more.
And she took the cooking-pot, and put the cakes before him, but he would not take them. And Amnon said, Let everyone go away from me. So they all went out.

Bread » How prepared » Cakes

1 Kings 17:12

Then she said, By the life of the Lord your God, I have nothing but a little meal in my store, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.

2 Samuel 6:19

And he gave to every man and woman among all the people, among all the masses of Israel, a cake of bread and a measure of wine and a cake of dry grapes. Then all the people went away, every man to his house.

Bread » Traffic in

Jeremiah 37:21

Then by the order of Zedekiah the king, Jeremiah was put into the place of the armed watchmen, and they gave him every day a cake of bread from the street of the bread-makers, till all the bread in the town was used up. So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen.

Mark 6:37

But he said to them in answer, Give them food yourselves. And they said to him, Are we to go and get bread for two hundred pence, and give it to them?

Bread » First fruit of, offered to God

Numbers 15:19-20

Then, when you take for your food the produce of the land, you are to give an offering lifted up before the Lord. Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up.

Bread » Served round after funerals

Ezekiel 24:17-22

Let there be no sound of sorrow; make no weeping for your dead, put on your head-dress and your shoes on your feet, let not your lips be covered, and do not take the food of those in grief. So in the morning I was teaching the people and in the evening death took my wife; and in the morning I did what I had been ordered to do. And the people said to me, Will you not make clear to us the sense of these things; is it for us you do them? read more.
Then I said to them, The word of the Lord came to me, saying, Say to the people of Israel, The Lord has said, See, I will make my holy place unclean, the pride of your strength, the pleasure of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and daughters, who did not come with you here, will be put to the sword. And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief.

Bread » Was formed into » Loaves

1 Samuel 10:3-4

Then you are to go on from there, and when you come to the oak-tree of Tabor, you will see three men going up to God to Beth-el, one having with him three young goats and another three cakes of bread and another a skin full of wine: They will say, Peace be with you, and will give you two cakes of bread, which you are to take from them.

Bread » Illustrative » (eating without scarceness,) of plenty

Deuteronomy 8:9

Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.

Bread » How prepared » Wafers

Exodus 29:23

And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord:

Exodus 16:21

And they took it up morning by morning, every man as he had need: and when the sun was high it was gone.

Bread » By idolaters

Jeremiah 7:18

The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.

Jeremiah 44:19

And the women said, When we were burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes in her image and give her our drink offerings without the knowledge of our husbands?

Bread » Illustrative » (of deceit,) of unlawful gain

Bread » Illustrative » (of idleness,) of sloth

Bread » Plenty of, promised to the obedient

Leviticus 26:5

And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

Bread » Illustrative » (of wickedness,) of oppression

Proverbs 4:17

The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

Bread » Illustrative » (fulness of,) of abundance

Ezekiel 16:49

Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need.

Bread » With water, the food of prisons

1 Kings 22:27

And say, It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.

Bread » Ordinary, called common bread

1 Samuel 21:4

And the priest, answering David, said, I have no common bread here but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.

Bread » Illustrative » (of adversity,) of heavy affliction

Isaiah 30:20

And though the Lord will give you the bread of trouble and the water of grief, you will no longer put your teacher on one side, but you will see your teacher:

Bread » Illustrative » Of Christ

John 6:33-35

The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world. Ah, Lord, they said, give us that bread for ever! And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.

Bread » Was baked » On hearths

Genesis 18:6

Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

Bread » Made of » Manna (in the wilderness)

Numbers 11:8

The people went about taking it up from the earth, crushing it between stones or hammering it to powder, and boiling it in pots, and they made cakes of it: its taste was like the taste of cakes cooked with oil.

Bread » Placed on table of shew bread

Exodus 25:30

And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread.

Bread » Nutritious and strengthening

Bread » Troughs used for kneading

Exodus 12:34

And the people took their bread-paste before it was leavened, putting their basins in their clothing on their backs.

Bread » Corn ground for making

Isaiah 28:28

Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over it without crushing it.

Bread » How prepared » On coals of dung

Ezekiel 4:12

And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.

Ezekiel 4:15

Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's waste in place of man's waste, and you will make your bread ready on it.

Bread » Figurative » Christ

John 6:32-35

Jesus then said to them, Truly I say to you, What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world. Ah, Lord, they said, give us that bread for ever! read more.
And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.

Bread » Made of » Beans, millet, &c

Ezekiel 4:9

And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and make bread for yourself from them; all the days when you are stretched on your side it will be your food.

Bread » Illustrative » (of tears,) of sorrow

Psalm 80:5

You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

Bread » How prepared » Mixed with oil

Exodus 29:2

And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal;

Exodus 29:23

And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord:

Bread » Meal

1 Kings 17:12

Then she said, By the life of the Lord your God, I have nothing but a little meal in my store, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.

Bread » How prepared » Cracknels

1 Kings 14:3

And take with you ten cakes of bread and dry cakes and a pot of honey, and go to him: he will give you word of what is to become of the child.

Bread » How prepared » Honey

Exodus 16:31

And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and its taste was like cakes made with honey.

Bread » How prepared » On hearths

Genesis 18:6

Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

Bread » Made by men

Genesis 40:2

And Pharaoh was angry with his two servants, with the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker;

Bread » Barley

Judges 7:13

When Gideon came there, a man was giving his friend an account of his dream, saying, See, I had a dream about a cake of barley bread which, falling into the tents of Midian, came on to the tent, overturning it so that it was stretched out flat on the earth.

Bread » Manna

Numbers 11:8

The people went about taking it up from the earth, crushing it between stones or hammering it to powder, and boiling it in pots, and they made cakes of it: its taste was like the taste of cakes cooked with oil.

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1 Samuel 17:17

And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;

Genesis 18:5

And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.

Food » List of articles » Bread

1 Samuel 17:17

And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;

Genesis 18:6

Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

Exodus 13:6

For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord.

John 6:7

Philip made answer, Bread to the value of two hundred pence would not be enough even to give everyone a little.

Food » Articles of » Bread

1 Samuel 17:17

And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;

Genesis 18:5

And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.

Symbols and similitudes » Bread

Mark 14:22

And while they were taking food, he took bread, and after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to them, and said, Take it: this is my body.

Victuals » List of articles » Bread

1 Samuel 17:17

And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;

Genesis 18:6

Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

Exodus 13:6

For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord.

John 6:7

Philip made answer, Bread to the value of two hundred pence would not be enough even to give everyone a little.

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Baking Bread

Exodus 12:39

And they made unleavened cakes from the paste which they had taken out of Egypt; it was not leavened, for they had been sent out of Egypt so quickly, that they had no time to make any food ready.

Bread, Figurative Of

Isaiah 30:20

And though the Lord will give you the bread of trouble and the water of grief, you will no longer put your teacher on one side, but you will see your teacher:

Bread, Kinds Of

Exodus 12:39

And they made unleavened cakes from the paste which they had taken out of Egypt; it was not leavened, for they had been sent out of Egypt so quickly, that they had no time to make any food ready.

Consecrated Bread

Hebrews 9:2

For the first Tent was made ready, having in it the vessels for the lights and the table and the ordering of the bread; and this is named the holy place.

Feast Of Unleavened Bread

Exodus 12:15-20

For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel.

Unleavened Bread

Exodus 12:39

And they made unleavened cakes from the paste which they had taken out of Egypt; it was not leavened, for they had been sent out of Egypt so quickly, that they had no time to make any food ready.

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