'Eats' in the Bible
You must eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast from your houses. Whoever eats what is leavened from the first day through the seventh day must be cut off from Israel.
Yeast must not be found in your houses for seven days. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreign resident or native of the land, must be cut off from the community of Israel.
If any of the meat of his fellowship sacrifice is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presents it; it is repulsive. The person who eats any of it will be responsible for his sin.
But the one who eats meat from the Lord’s fellowship sacrifice while he is unclean, that person must be cut off from his people.
If someone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable creature, and eats meat from the Lord’s fellowship sacrifice, that person must be cut off from his people.”
If anyone eats animal fat from a fire offering presented to the Lord, the person who eats it must be cut off from his people.
Whoever eats any blood, that person must be cut off from his people.”
Anyone who eats some of its carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening. Anyone who carries its carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.
Whoever lies down in the house is to wash his clothes, and whoever eats in it is to wash his clothes.
“Anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who live among them who eats any blood, I will turn against that person who eats blood and cut him off from his people.
Since the life of every creature is its blood, I have told the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.
“Every person, whether the native or the foreigner, who eats an animal that died a natural death or was mauled by wild beasts is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening; then he will be clean.
Anyone who eats it will bear his punishment, for he has profaned what is holy to the Lord. That person must be cut off from his people.
If anyone eats a holy offering in error, he must add a fifth to its value and give the holy offering to the priest.
So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us like an ox eats up the green plants in the field.”Since Balak son of Zippor was Moab’s king at that time,
and the men of Israel were worn out that day, for Saul had placed the troops under an oath: “The man who eats food before evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies is cursed.” So none of the troops tasted any food.
Then, one of the troops said, “Your father made the troops solemnly swear, ‘The man who eats food today is cursed,’ and the troops are exhausted.”
I’m now 80 years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of male and female singers? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
Look at Behemoth,which I made along with you.He eats grass like an ox.
A righteous man eats until he is satisfied,but the stomach of the wicked is empty. >
This is the way of an adulteress:she eats and wipes her mouthand says, “I’ve done nothing wrong.”
It is also the gift of God whenever anyone eats, drinks, and enjoys all his efforts.
The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich permits him no sleep.
What is more, he eats in darkness all his days, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.
They carve meat on the right,but they are still hungry;they have eaten on the left,but they are still not satisfied.Each one eats the flesh of his own arm.
He burns half of it in a fire,and he roasts meat on that half.He eats the roast and is satisfied.He warms himself and says, “Ah!I am warm, I see the blaze.”
They hatch viper’s eggsand weave spider’s webs.Whoever eats their eggs will die;crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
Rather, each will die for his own wrongdoing. Anyone who eats sour grapes—his own teeth will be set on edge.
though the father has done none of them. Indeed, when the son eats at the mountain shrines and defiles his neighbor’s wife,
and starts to beat his fellow slaves, and eats and drinks with drunkards,
And the Pharisees and scribes were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them!”
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”
Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,
The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood lives in Me, and I in him.
This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”
I’m not speaking about all of you; I know those I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: The one who eats My bread has raised his heel against Me.
One person believes he may eat anything, but one who is weak eats only vegetables.
One who eats must not look down on one who does not eat, and one who does not eat must not criticize one who does, because God has accepted him.
Whoever observes the day, observes it for the honor of the Lord. Whoever eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; and whoever does not eat, it is for the Lord that he does not eat it, yet he thanks God.
Do not tear down God’s work because of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to cause stumbling by what he eats.
But whoever doubts stands condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from a conviction, and everything that is not from a conviction is sin.
Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy way will be guilty of sin against the body and blood of the Lord.
For whoever eats and drinks without recognizing the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself.