38 Bible Verses about Bread
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Jesus replied: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not hunger. The one who puts active faith in me will never thirst.
I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. If any man eats of this bread he will live forever. Yes and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.
In reply Jesus answered: It is written; man shall not live on bread alone, but on all (everything) (every word) (every utterance) (every declaration) that proceeds from the mouth of Jehovah. (Deuteronomy 8:3)
Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the three hundred and ninety days you lie on your side.
As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed, and broke it; and he gave to the disciples. Then he said: Take, eat; this is (represents) (means) (exemplifies) my body.
Who among you, who would give his son a stone when he asks him for bread?

Whoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of [sinning against] (falsely representing) the body and blood of the Lord.
What father would give his son a stone when he asked for a loaf? What father would give a serpent when his son asked for a fish?
He gave thanks. Then he took the bread, broke it and gave it to them, saying: This represents my body that is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
He also said: Which of you have a friend you would approach at midnight and say lend me three loaves.
I have been young, and now I am old, but I have never seen a righteous person abandoned or his descendants begging for food.
He took the five loaves and the two fishes. Looking up to heaven, he blessed them and broke the bread. Then he gave them to the disciples to pass out to the crowd.
Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness. It is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'
Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart for God now accepts your works.
We took hot fresh bread for our provision out of our houses on the day we came to you. Now it is dry, and it is moldy:
Give us this day our daily bread. (Matthew 6:34) (1 Timothy 6:8) (Proverbs 30:8) (Psalm 37:25)
Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
He said: It is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.
The one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness.
For I received from the Lord that which I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread.
You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.
Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with food necessary for me.
Do not love sleep or you will come to poverty. Open your eyes and be satisfied with bread.
Elijah said to her: Have no fear. Go and do as you said, but first make me a little cake of it and come and give it to me. Then make something for yourself and your son.
They continued daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house. They ate their food with gladness and singleness of heart.
And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take and eat. This represents (is) my body, which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
He humbled you (allowed you to suffer) with hunger and then fed you with manna. Neither you nor your fathers had seen this before. He did this to teach you that a person cannot live on bread alone but must live on all (everything) (every word) that proceeds from the mouth of Jehovah.
Behold, the day is coming, said the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land. Not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Jehovah.
Let a man examine himself before he eats of that bread, and drinks of that cup.
From Thematic Bible
Bread » Hallowed
They will spread a violet cloth over the table of the presence and put on it the plates, dishes, bowls, and pitchers for the wine offerings. The bread that is always in Jehovah's presence will also be on it.
The table should be placed in front of the Covenant Box. There is always to be the sacred bread offered to me for the table.
Take flour and bake twelve rings of bread. Each ring will contain four quarts of flour.
The priest gave him holy bread. For he only had the bread of the presence that had been taken from Jehovah's presence and replaced with warm bread that day.
Some of their Kohathite brothers were in charge of preparing for every Sabbath the bread set out on the table.
Bread » General references to
A man came from Baal Shalishah. He brought Elisha twenty loaves of bread made from the first barley harvested that year and some freshly cut heads of grain. Elisha told his servant to feed the group of prophets with this.
And wine which makes man's heart glad. That he may make his face shine with oil, and food, which sustains man's heart.
Jesse loaded a donkey with bread and a goatskin full of wine. He told David to take the donkey and a young goat to Saul.
King Melchizedek of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.
I will bring a bite to eat to refresh you. Stay a while before you continue your journey. They responded: Very well, do as you have said.
Bread » Baking of
The woman quickly butchered a calf she had fattened. Then she took some flour and prepared it. She baked some bread without yeast.
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said: Quick! Make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.
Moses said: Jehovah has commanded that tomorrow is a holy day of rest, dedicated to God. Bake today what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Whatever is left should be put aside and kept for tomorrow.
If your grain offering has been baked in an oven, it must be rings of unleavened bread made of flour mixed with olive oil or wafers of unleavened bread brushed with oil.
I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry.
Bread » How prepared » Kneaded
They all commit adultery. They are like a heated oven, an oven so hot that a baker does not have to fan its flames when he makes bread.
The woman quickly butchered a calf she had fattened. Then she took some flour and prepared it. She baked some bread without yeast.
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said: Quick! Make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire. The women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite me.
The Nile will swarm with frogs. They will come up and go into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed. They will go into the houses of your servants and on your people, and into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.
Bread » Breaking of
He commanded the crowd to sit down on the grass. Then he prayed. He gave the five loaves and two fishes to the disciples to distribute to the crowd.
After he said this he took some bread, gave thanks to God in the presence of all. He broke it and began to eat.
When he had sat down with them to eat he took the bread and blessed; and breaking it he gave to them.
They continued devoting themselves to doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
He went up and they broke bread and ate. He talked with them a long time until morning. Then he left.
Bread » The principal food used by the ancients
Early the next morning Abraham took bread and a container of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder. He also gave her the boy and sent her on her way. So she left and wandered around in the desert near Beer-sheba.
I will bring a bite to eat to refresh you. Stay a while before you continue your journey. They responded: Very well, do as you have said.
She gave her son Jacob the good-tasting meal and the bread she had prepared.
The morning of the fourth day they woke up early and prepared to go. But the woman's father said to the Levite: Eat first. You will feel better. You can go later.
Bread » Often given as a present
So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two full wineskins, five butchered sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, one hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred fig cakes and loaded them on donkeys.
Perhaps Jehovah will acknowledge my misery and give me some blessings to take away this curse.
People from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali brought food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen. Vast supplies of flour, fig cakes, raisins, wine; olive oil, cattle, and sheep were brought to the celebration. There was great joy throughout the land of Israel
Bread » Illustrative » (seeking of begging,) of extreme poverty
I have been young, and now I am old, but I have never seen a righteous person abandoned or his descendants begging for food.
Your descendants who survive will have to go to that priest and ask him for money and food, and beg to be allowed to help the priests, in order to have something to eat.'
Her people are sighing and looking for bread. They have given their desired things for something to eat to give them life. See, O Jehovah, and take note. She has become a thing of shame.
Bread » Sacrificed
Your descendants who survive will have to go to that priest and ask him for money and food, and beg to be allowed to help the priests, in order to have something to eat.'
Be God's holy men. Do not dishonor the name of your God. Be holy because you bring sacrifices by fire to Jehovah. It is the food (bread) of your God.
Be holy because you offer the food of your God. Be holy because I, Jehovah, am holy. I set you apart as holy.
Tell Aaron: 'If any of your descendants, now or in future generations, has a physical defect, he must never bring food to offer to God.
If a descendant of the priest Aaron has a physical defect, he must never bring sacrifices by fire to Jehovah. He has a defect. He must never bring food to offer to God. He may eat the food of his God, what is holy and what is very holy.
Bread » How prepared » Made into loaves
Jesse told his son David: Take this half-bushel of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread to your brothers. Take them to your brothers in the camp right away.
So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two full wineskins, five butchered sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, one hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred fig cakes and loaded them on donkeys.
You will go from there until you find the oak tree of Tabor. You will see three men going up to God to Bethel. One will have three young goats and another three cakes of bread and another a skin full of wine:
Take him ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey. Ask him what is going to happen to our son. He will tell you.
They forgot to take bread and they only had one loaf with them in the boat.
Bread » How prepared » Baked in ovens
They all commit adultery. They are like a heated oven, an oven so hot that a baker does not have to fan its flames when he makes bread.
If your grain offering has been baked in an oven, it must be rings of unleavened bread made of flour mixed with olive oil or wafers of unleavened bread brushed with oil.
I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry.
The Nile will swarm with frogs. They will come up and go into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed. They will go into the houses of your servants and on your people, and into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.
Every grain offering, whether baked in an oven or prepared in a skillet or a frying pan, belongs to the priest who offers it.
Bread » Staff of life
Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful to me. I will stretch out my hand (use my power) against it, cut off its food supply, send a famine to it, and destroy its people and animals.
When I shoot my destructive arrows of famine at you, I will shoot to kill you. I will bring more and more famine into your land. I will cut off your food supply.
And he added: Mortal man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread for Jerusalem. The people there will be distressed and anxious as they measure out the food they eat and the water they drink.
Bread » Kinds of » Leavened (made with yeast)
They all commit adultery. They are like a heated oven, an oven so hot that a baker does not have to fan its flames when he makes bread.
In addition to these rings of bread, you must bring leavened bread (with yeast) along with your fellowship offering of thanksgiving.
Bring two loaves of bread from your homes to present to Jehovah. Bake them with four quarts of flour. They are the first harvested grain for Jehovah.
Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened. Proclaim freewill-offerings and make them known. This pleases you, O you children of Israel, said the Lord Jehovah.
He offered another illustration: The kingdom of heaven is similar to leaven. A woman hid leaven in three measures of meal until it was all leavened.
Bread » Often put for the whole sustenance of man
You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.
Potiphar turned over everything he had to the care of Joseph. He did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Joseph was well built and good-looking.
Give us this day our daily bread. (Matthew 6:34) (1 Timothy 6:8) (Proverbs 30:8) (Psalm 37:25)
Bread » Kinds of » Bread of affliction
Jehovah may give you troubles and hardships. But your Teacher (Grand Instructor) will no longer be hidden from you. You will see your Teacher with your own eyes.
It is vain to work hard for the food you eat by getting up early and going to bed late. Jehovah gives food to those he loves while they sleep.
Tell them: '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.'
They will not pour wine offerings to Jehovah. Their food will only satisfy their hunger. All who eat it will be defiled. It will not be brought as an offering to Jehovah's Temple.
Bread » Scarceness of, sent as a punishment
When I shoot my destructive arrows of famine at you, I will shoot to kill you. I will bring more and more famine into your land. I will cut off your food supply.
Jehovah of Hosts, the Almighty (Ruler) (Sovereign) is going to take all support and supply of food and water from Jerusalem and Judah.
Bread » Was kneaded
They all commit adultery. They are like a heated oven, an oven so hot that a baker does not have to fan its flames when he makes bread.
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said: Quick! Make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire. The women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite me.
Bread » Illustrative » (when broken,) of the death of Christ
As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed, and broke it; and he gave to the disciples. Then he said: Take, eat; this is (represents) (means) (exemplifies) my body.
For I received from the Lord that which I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread. And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take and eat. This represents (is) my body, which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
Bread » Kinds of » Unleavened (made without yeast)
The woman quickly butchered a calf she had fattened. Then she took some flour and prepared it. She baked some bread without yeast.
Use the best wheat flour to make some unleavened bread. Bake some with olive oil, some without it, and some in the form of thin cakes brushed with oil.
Lot insisted, so at last they went home with him. He set a great feast before them, complete with fresh unleavened (unfermented) bread.
So Gideon went into his house and cooked a young goat and used a bushel of flour to make bread without any yeast. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, brought them to Jehovah's angel under the oak tree, and gave them to him.
Bread » Multitudes miraculously fed by Christ with
He commanded the crowd to sit down on the grass. Then he prayed. He gave the five loaves and two fishes to the disciples to distribute to the crowd. And they all had plenty to eat. In fact they had twelve baskets full of food left over. About five thousand men, plus women and children ate.
Jesus asked: How many loaves do you have? They said: Seven, and a few small fish. He told the people to sit down on the ground. He took the seven loaves and the fish and offered a prayer of thanksgiving. Then he broke them and gave them to the disciples. The disciples gave them to the people. read more.
They all ate and were satisfied. When they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, there were seven large baskets full.
Bread » Made of wheat flour
Solomon provided Hiram with one hundred thousand bushels of wheat and one hundred and ten thousand gallons of pure olive oil every year to feed his men.
Use the best wheat flour to make some unleavened bread. Bake some with olive oil, some without it, and some in the form of thin cakes brushed with oil.
The supplies Solomon needed each day were one hundred and fifty bushels of fine flour and three hundred bushels of meal.
I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.
Bread » Symbolical » Of the body of Christ
As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed, and broke it; and he gave to the disciples. Then he said: Take, eat; this is (represents) (means) (exemplifies) my body.
For I received from the Lord that which I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread. And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take and eat. This represents (is) my body, which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul spoke to them. Intending to depart the next morning he prolonged his speech until midnight.
Bread » Sometimes unleavened
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Bread » Broken for use
He commanded the crowd to sit down on the grass. Then he prayed. He gave the five loaves and two fishes to the disciples to distribute to the crowd.
The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink. The young children cry out for bread, and no man gives it to them.
Bread » Illustrative » (partaking of,) of communion of saints
They continued daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house. They ate their food with gladness and singleness of heart.
For we being many are one-bread and one-body. We are all partakers of that one bread.
Bread » Usually leavened
Bring two loaves of bread from your homes to present to Jehovah. Bake them with four quarts of flour. They are the first harvested grain for Jehovah.
He offered another illustration: The kingdom of heaven is similar to leaven. A woman hid leaven in three measures of meal until it was all leavened.
Bread » How prepared » On coals
Looking up, he saw near his head a cake cooked on coals and a bottle of water. So he ate food and drink water and went to sleep again.
No one stops to think. No one has enough knowledge or understanding to say: I burned half of the wood in the fire. I also baked bread over its coals. I roasted meat and ate it. Now I am making the rest of the wood into a disgusting thing and bowing to a block of wood.
When they got to land, they saw a fire of coals and fish laid on it, and bread.
Bread » Figurative
For we being many are one-bread and one-body. We are all partakers of that one bread.
Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.
The one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness.
Bread » In times of scarcity, sold by weight
I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry.
And he added: Mortal man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread for Jerusalem. The people there will be distressed and anxious as they measure out the food they eat and the water they drink.
Bread » Was formed into » Cakes
He also distributed to all the people, to the whole crowd of Israelites, men and women, one loaf of bread, one date cake, and one raisin cake. Then all the people went home.
Elijah said to her: Have no fear. Go and do as you said, but first make me a little cake of it and come and give it to me. Then make something for yourself and your son.
Bread » Was baked » In ovens
I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry.
They all commit adultery. They are like a heated oven, an oven so hot that a baker does not have to fan its flames when he makes bread. On the day of the king's celebration, the officials become drunk from the heat of wine, and the king joins mockers. They become hot inside like an oven while they lie in ambush. All night long their anger smolders, but in the morning it burns like a raging fire. read more.
They are all as hot as an oven. They consume their rulers like a fire. All their kings die in battle, and none of them calls to me.
Bread » Made by women
He will take your daughters from you and force them to make perfumes, cook, and bake.
I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry.
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire. The women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite me.
Bread » Sacred, called hallowed bread
The priest gave him holy bread. For he only had the bread of the presence that had been taken from Jehovah's presence and replaced with warm bread that day.
The high priest answered David: I do not have any ordinary bread here. But there is holy bread for the young men if they have not had sexual intercourse today.
Bread » Making of, a trade
King Zedekiah gave the command to have Jeremiah put in the courtyard of the prison. He gave him a loaf of bread every day from the bakers' street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the prison.
Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
Bread » Publicly sold
Evening came and the disciples approached Jesus and said: This place is desolate. Send the people away so they may go to the villages and buy themselves food.
The disciples replied: Where would we get so many loaves in this desolate place to satisfy such a large crowd?
Bread » Kept in baskets
When the chief baker saw that he had interpreted favorably, he said to Joseph: I also saw in my dream three baskets of white bread on my head.
Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket, at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
Bread » Was formed into » Wafers
The house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white in color. It tasted like wafers made with honey.
From the basket of bread which has been offered to me, take one loaf of each kind: one loaf made with olive oil and one made without it and one thin cake.
Bread » Illustrative » (want of,) of extreme poverty
He with a servant who is lightly esteemed is better off than he who has no food and yet is honored.
Then the relative will cry out: I am not a healer! I do not have any food or a coat in my home. Do not make me a leader of the people.
Bread » Crumb of, used to wipe the fingers, thrown under the table
He hoped he could eat the bits of food that fell from the rich man's table. Then the dogs would come and lick his sores.
She said: Yes, Lord; but even the dogs take the scraps from under their masters' table.
Bread » Offered with sacrifices
Use the best wheat flour to make some unleavened bread. Bake some with olive oil, some without it, and some in the form of thin cakes brushed with oil.
From the basket of bread which has been offered to me, take one loaf of each kind: one loaf made with olive oil and one made without it and one thin cake.
Bread » Made of » Wheat
Use the best wheat flour to make some unleavened bread. Bake some with olive oil, some without it, and some in the form of thin cakes brushed with oil.
I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.
Bread » Was baked » On coals of fire
No one stops to think. No one has enough knowledge or understanding to say: I burned half of the wood in the fire. I also baked bread over its coals. I roasted meat and ate it. Now I am making the rest of the wood into a disgusting thing and bowing to a block of wood.
When they got to land, they saw a fire of coals and fish laid on it, and bread.
Bread » When old, dry and mouldy
They had worn out and patched shoes on their feet, they wore old garments; and all the bread of their provision was dry and moldy.
We took hot fresh bread for our provision out of our houses on the day we came to you. Now it is dry, and it is moldy:
Bread » Yielded by the earth
Above the ground food grows. Beneath it the food decays as if it were burned by fire.
As the rain and the snow come down from the sky, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
Bread » Given by God
Give us this day our daily bread. (Matthew 6:34) (1 Timothy 6:8) (Proverbs 30:8) (Psalm 37:25)
Some time later Naomi heard that Jehovah blessed his people by giving them good crops. So she got ready to leave Moab with her daughters-in-law.
Bread » Made of » Barley
There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish. What are these among so many?
When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling a friend about a dream. He was saying: I dreamed that a loaf of barley bread rolled into our camp and hit a tent. The tent collapsed and lay flat on the ground.
Bread » Called the staff of life
Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful to me. I will stretch out my hand (use my power) against it, cut off its food supply, send a famine to it, and destroy its people and animals.
When I shoot my destructive arrows of famine at you, I will shoot to kill you. I will bring more and more famine into your land. I will cut off your food supply.
And he added: Mortal man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread for Jerusalem. The people there will be distressed and anxious as they measure out the food they eat and the water they drink.
Bread » How prepared » In pans
If your grain offering is prepared in a frying pan, it, too, will be unleavened bread made of flour mixed with oil.
When your grain offering is prepared in a skillet, it will be made of flour with oil.
So Amnon went to bed and pretended that he was sick. King David went to see him. Amnon said: Please have Tamar come and make a few cakes here where I can see her. Then she can serve them to me. David sent word to Tamar at the palace: Go to Amnon's house and fix him some food. She went there and found him in bed. She prepared dough and made some cakes there where he could see her. Then she baked the cakes. read more.
Tamar emptied them out of the pan for him to eat. But he refused to eat. He said: Send everyone away. So they all left.
Bread » How prepared » Cakes
Then she said: By the life of Jehovah your God, I have nothing but a little meal, 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.
He also distributed to all the people, to the whole crowd of Israelites, men and women, one loaf of bread, one date cake, and one raisin cake. Then all the people went home.
Bread » Traffic in
King Zedekiah gave the command to have Jeremiah put in the courtyard of the prison. He gave him a loaf of bread every day from the bakers' street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the prison.
He replied: You give them food to eat. They asked: Should we buy two hundred shillings' worth of bread to feed them?
Bread » First fruit of, offered to God
When any food produced there is eaten, some of it is to be set aside as a special contribution to Jehovah. When you bake bread, the first loaf of the first bread made from the new grain is to be presented as a special contribution to Jehovah. This is to be presented in the same way as the special contribution you make from the grain you thresh.
Bread » Served round after funerals
Groan silently; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban and put your shoes on your feet. Do not cover your mustache and do not eat the bread of men. So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded. The people said to me: Will you not tell us what these things that you are doing mean for us? read more.
Then I said to them: The word of Jehovah came to me, and He said: Speak to the house of Israel. Tell them Jehovah says: 'I am about to profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes and your delight. Your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword. You will do as I have done. You will not cover your mustache and you will not eat the bread of men.
Bread » Was formed into » Loaves
You will go from there until you find the oak tree of Tabor. You will see three men going up to God to Bethel. One will have three young goats and another three cakes of bread and another a skin full of wine: They will say: 'Peace be with you.' They will give you two cakes of bread that you should take from them.
Bread » Illustrative » (eating without scarceness,) of plenty
The land will have enough food for you, and you will have everything you need. The land has rocks with iron ore. You will be able to mine copper ore in the mountains.
Bread » How prepared » Wafers
From the basket of bread which has been offered to me, take one loaf of each kind: one loaf made with olive oil and one made without it and one thin cake.
Every morning each one gathered as much as he needed. When the sun grew hot, what was left on the ground melted.
Bread » By idolaters
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire. The women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite me.
The women added: 'When we baked cakes shaped like the Queen of Heaven, offered sacrifices to her, and poured out wine offerings to her, our husbands approved of what we were doing.'
Bread » Illustrative » (of deceit,) of unlawful gain
Bread taken by deceit tastes sweet to a man. Afterwards his mouth will be filled with gravel.
Bread » Illustrative » (of idleness,) of sloth
She watches over her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Bread » Plenty of, promised to the obedient
Your crops will be so plentiful that you will still be harvesting grain when it is time to pick grapes. You will still be picking grapes when it is time to plant grain. You will have all you want to eat and you will live in safety in your land.
Bread » Illustrative » (of wickedness,) of oppression
Bread » Illustrative » (fulness of,) of abundance
This was the guilt of your sister Sodom. She and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.
Bread » With water, the food of prisons
Tell them: '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
The high priest answered David: I do not have any ordinary bread here. But there is holy bread for the young men if they have not had sexual intercourse today.
Bread » Illustrative » (of adversity,) of heavy affliction
Jehovah may give you troubles and hardships. But your Teacher (Grand Instructor) will no longer be hidden from you. You will see your Teacher with your own eyes.
Bread » Illustrative » Of Christ
For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven. It gives life to the world. They responded: Lord, always give us this bread. Jesus replied: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not hunger. The one who puts active faith in me will never thirst.
Bread » Was baked » On hearths
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said: Quick! Make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.
Bread » Made of » Manna (in the wilderness)
The people would gather it and then grind it in a hand mill or crush it in a mortar. They would cook it in a pot or make round loaves of bread out of it. It tasted like rich sweet pastry made with oil.
Bread » Placed on table of shew bread
The table should be placed in front of the Covenant Box. There is always to be the sacred bread offered to me for the table.
Bread » Nutritious and strengthening
And wine which makes man's heart glad. That he may make his face shine with oil, and food, which sustains man's heart.
Bread » Troughs used for kneading
The people picked up their bread dough before it had risen. They carried it on their shoulders in bowls and wrapped up in their clothes.
Bread » Corn ground for making
Bread flour must be ground. Therefore he does not thresh it forever, break it with his cartwheel, or crush it with his horsemen.
Bread » How prepared » On coals of dung
You are to build a fire out of dried human excrement, bake bread on the fire, and eat it where everyone can see you.
So God said: Very well. I will let you use cow dung instead. You can bake your bread on that.
Bread » Figurative » Christ
Jesus responded: I speak the truth! It was not Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven. My Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven. It gives life to the world. They responded: Lord, always give us this bread. read more.
Jesus replied: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not hunger. The one who puts active faith in me will never thirst.
Bread » Made of » Beans, millet, &c
Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the three hundred and ninety days you lie on your side.
Bread » Illustrative » (of tears,) of sorrow
You made them eat tears as food. You often made them drink their own tears.
Bread » How prepared » Mixed with oil
Use the best wheat flour to make some unleavened bread. Bake some with olive oil, some without it, and some in the form of thin cakes brushed with oil.
From the basket of bread which has been offered to me, take one loaf of each kind: one loaf made with olive oil and one made without it and one thin cake.
Bread » Meal
Then she said: By the life of Jehovah your God, I have nothing but a little meal, 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
Take him ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey. Ask him what is going to happen to our son. He will tell you.
Bread » How prepared » Honey
The house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white in color. It tasted like wafers made with honey.
Bread » How prepared » On hearths
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said: Quick! Make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.
Bread » Made by men
Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
Bread » Barley
When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling a friend about a dream. He was saying: I dreamed that a loaf of barley bread rolled into our camp and hit a tent. The tent collapsed and lay flat on the ground.
Bread » Manna
The people would gather it and then grind it in a hand mill or crush it in a mortar. They would cook it in a pot or make round loaves of bread out of it. It tasted like rich sweet pastry made with oil.
the Diet of the jews » Articles used for » Bread
Jesse told his son David: Take this half-bushel of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread to your brothers. Take them to your brothers in the camp right away.
I will bring a bite to eat to refresh you. Stay a while before you continue your journey. They responded: Very well, do as you have said.
Food » List of articles » Bread
Jesse told his son David: Take this half-bushel of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread to your brothers. Take them to your brothers in the camp right away.
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said: Quick! Make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.
You must eat unleavened bread seven days. The seventh day will be a feast to Jehovah.
Philip answered: Two hundred shillings' worth of bread is not sufficient for everyone to take a little.
Food » Articles of » Bread
Jesse told his son David: Take this half-bushel of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread to your brothers. Take them to your brothers in the camp right away.
I will bring a bite to eat to refresh you. Stay a while before you continue your journey. They responded: Very well, do as you have said.
Symbols and similitudes » Bread
As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed, and broke it; and he gave to the disciples. Then he said: Take, eat; this is (represents) (means) (exemplifies) my body.
While they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to them, and said: Take it, this means (represents) my body.
He gave thanks. Then he took the bread, broke it and gave it to them, saying: This represents my body that is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
Victuals » List of articles » Bread
Jesse told his son David: Take this half-bushel of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread to your brothers. Take them to your brothers in the camp right away.
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said: Quick! Make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.
You must eat unleavened bread seven days. The seventh day will be a feast to Jehovah.
Philip answered: Two hundred shillings' worth of bread is not sufficient for everyone to take a little.
Topics on Bread
Baking Bread
Exodus 12:39With the dough they had brought from Egypt, they baked round, flat bread. The dough had not risen because they had been thrown out of Egypt and had no time to prepare food for the trip.
Bread, As Food
Matthew 6:11Give us this day our daily bread. (Matthew 6:34) (1 Timothy 6:8) (Proverbs 30:8) (Psalm 37:25)
Bread, Figurative Of
Isaiah 30:20Jehovah may give you troubles and hardships. But your Teacher (Grand Instructor) will no longer be hidden from you. You will see your Teacher with your own eyes.
Bread, Kinds Of
Exodus 12:39With the dough they had brought from Egypt, they baked round, flat bread. The dough had not risen because they had been thrown out of Egypt and had no time to prepare food for the trip.
Breaking Of Bread
Matthew 26:26As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed, and broke it; and he gave to the disciples. Then he said: Take, eat; this is (represents) (means) (exemplifies) my body.
Consecrated Bread
Hebrews 9:2A tabernacle was set up. The first room was called the Holy Place. It contained the lamp stand and table and the consecrated bread.
Feast Of Unleavened Bread
Exodus 12:15-20You will eat unleavened bread for seven days. The first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day will be cut off from Israel.
Unleavened Bread
Exodus 12:39With the dough they had brought from Egypt, they baked round, flat bread. The dough had not risen because they had been thrown out of Egypt and had no time to prepare food for the trip.
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