'Eat' in the Bible

nor did we eat any one's bread without paying for it, but we laboured and toiled, working hard night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you.

For even when we were with you, we laid down this rule for you: "If a man does not choose to work, neither shall he eat."

To persons of that sort our injunction--and our command by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ--is that they are to work quietly and eat their own honestly-earned bread.