43 Bible Verses about cooking

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Ezekiel 4:12

And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement."

Ezekiel 11:3

They say, 'The time is not near to build houses; the city is a cooking pot and we are the meat in it.'

Genesis 27:31

He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau said to him, "My father, get up and eat some of your son's wild game. Then you can bless me."

1 Kings 17:12

She said, "As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I'm going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation."

John 21:9

When they got out on the beach, they saw a charcoal fire ready with a fish placed on it, and bread.

Ezekiel 46:24

Then he said to me, "These are the houses for boiling, where the ministers of the temple boil the sacrifices of the people."

Leviticus 26:26

When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

2 Kings 6:29

So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day, 'Hand over your son and we'll eat him.' But she hid her son!"

Genesis 25:29

Now Jacob cooked some stew, and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished.

Deuteronomy 16:7

You must cook and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses; you may return the next morning to your tents.

Isaiah 44:15

A man uses it to make a fire; he takes some of it and warms himself. Yes, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Then he makes a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.

Micah 3:3

You devour my people's flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot -- like meat in a kettle.

Exodus 16:23

He said to them, "This is what the Lord has said: 'Tomorrow is a time of cessation from work, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Whatever you want to bake, bake today; whatever you want to boil, boil today; whatever is left put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.'"

1 Kings 19:6

He looked and right there by his head was a cake baking on hot coals and a jug of water. He ate and drank and then slept some more.

Ezekiel 4:15

So he said to me, "All right then, I will substitute cow's manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it."

Exodus 12:8

They will eat the meat the same night; they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

Exodus 35:3

You must not kindle a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day."

Exodus 12:9

Do not eat it raw or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, its legs, and its entrails.

Jeremiah 1:13

The Lord again asked me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a pot of boiling water; it is tipped toward us from the north."

Leviticus 11:35

Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean to you.

Luke 10:40

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

Ezekiel 24:4

add the pieces of meat to it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.

1 Kings 17:13

Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do as you planned. But first make a small cake for me and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son.

Zechariah 14:20

On that day the bells of the horses will bear the inscription "Holy to the Lord." The cooking pots in the Lord's temple will be as holy as the bowls in front of the altar.

Lamentations 4:10

(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.

Leviticus 2:7

If your offering is a grain offering made in a pan, it must be made of choice wheat flour deep fried in olive oil.

Ezekiel 11:11

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

2 Kings 4:40

The stew was poured out for the men to eat. When they ate some of the stew, they cried out, "Death is in the pot, O prophet!" They could not eat it.

Numbers 11:8

And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil.

1 Kings 19:5

He stretched out and fell asleep under the shrub. All of a sudden an angelic messenger touched him and said, "Get up and eat."

1 Chronicles 9:31

Mattithiah, a Levite, the firstborn son of Shallum the Korahite, was in charge of baking the bread for offerings.

1 Samuel 8:13

He will take your daughters to be ointment makers, cooks, and bakers.

Zechariah 14:21

Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah will become holy in the sight of the Lord who rules over all, so that all who offer sacrifices may come and use some of them to boil their sacrifices in them. On that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord who rules over all.

1 Kings 17:16

The jar of flour was never empty and the jug of oil never ran out, just as the Lord had promised through Elijah.

Leviticus 6:21

It must be made with olive oil on a griddle and you must bring it well soaked, so you must present a grain offering of broken pieces as a soothing aroma to the Lord.

Leviticus 7:9

Every grain offering which is baked in the oven or made in the pan or on the griddle belongs to the priest who presented it.

John 21:12

"Come, have breakfast," Jesus said. But none of the disciples dared to ask him, "Who are you?" because they knew it was the Lord.

Exodus 12:16

On the first day there will be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there will be a holy convocation for you. You must do no work of any kind on them, only what every person will eat -- that alone may be prepared for you.

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Cooking » In the temple

Ezekiel 46:19-24

Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests which faced north. There I saw a place at the extreme western end. He said to me, "This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out to the outer court to transmit holiness to the people." Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me past the four corners of the court, and I noticed that in every corner of the court there was a court. read more.
In the four corners of the court were small courts, 70 feet in length and 52? feet in width; the four were all the same size. There was a row of masonry around each of the four courts, and places for boiling offerings were made under the rows all around. Then he said to me, "These are the houses for boiling, where the ministers of the temple boil the sacrifices of the people."

Cooking » Spice used in

Ezekiel 24:10

Pile up the bones, kindle the fire; cook the meat well, mix in the spices, let the bones be charred.

Cooking » Instructions » Goats

Deuteronomy 14:21

You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

Cooking » Ephraim, a cake unturned

Hosea 7:8

Ephraim has mixed itself like flour among the nations; Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side.

Symbols and similitudes » Cooking

Ezekiel 24:3-5

Recite a proverb to this rebellious house and say to them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: "'Set on the pot, set it on, pour water in it too; add the pieces of meat to it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones. Take the choice bone of the flock, heap up bones under it; boil rapidly, and boil its bones in it.

Jeremiah 1:13

The Lord again asked me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a pot of boiling water; it is tipped toward us from the north."

Ezekiel 4:9-15

"As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side -- 390 days -- you will eat it. The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times. And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times. read more.
And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement." And the Lord said, "This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them." And I said, "Ah, sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth." So he said to me, "All right then, I will substitute cow's manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it."

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Cooking, Methods

Genesis 19:3

But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.

Cooking, Types Of Food

Ezekiel 24:10

Pile up the bones, kindle the fire; cook the meat well, mix in the spices, let the bones be charred.

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