13 Bible Verses about Eating Before God
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A household may be too small to eat a whole animal. That household and the one next-door can share one animal. Choose your animal based on the number of people and what each person can eat.
That night the animals are to be roasted and eaten, together with bitter herbs (greens) and unleavened bread made without yeast.
You and your households should eat there before Jehovah your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings that Jehovah your God has blessed.
You and your household shall eat it every year before Jehovah your God in the place Jehovah chooses.
When any food produced there is eaten, some of it is to be set aside as a special contribution to Jehovah.
You and your sons and daughters, male and female slaves, and the Levites who live in your cities must eat these in the presence of Jehovah your God at the place he will choose. There in the presence of Jehovah your God enjoy everything for which you have worked.
and sacrifice peace offerings and eat there, and rejoice before Jehovah your God.
He offered a sacrifice on the mountain. He invited his relatives to eat the meal with him. They ate with him and spent the night on the mountain.
Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses' father-in-law before God.
Even though these leaders of Israel saw God, he did not punish them. So they ate and drank.
That day they were very happy as they ate and drank in the presence of Jehovah. For a second time they proclaimed Solomon king. In the name of Jehovah they anointed him as their ruler and Zadok as priest.
He said to them: Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready. This day is holy to our Lord. Let there be no grief in your hearts. The joy of Jehovah is your strong place.
Only the prince may sit there and eat food in the presence of Jehovah. He will enter through the entrance hall of the gateway and leave the same way.
