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The
following excerpts are from the bible, and
all pertain to foods. Some are dos some are don'ts all are
interesting
if nothing else. And the coincidence with modern know-how is
intriguing.
Some are wise, some are common sense and others may be silly.
Many
are based on superstitious beliefs others out of practicality and still
others have been found to be sound advice.
Bear
these things in mind as you read on.
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| "Come
home with me and eat
bread," I Kings
13:15 |
"We remember the fish,
which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons and the
leeks, and the onions, and
the
garlic." Numbers 11:5 |
"And the children of Israel
did eat manna 40 years," Exodus
16:35
***NOTE-Many
scholars believe manna was a spice that is known today as coriander but
no one knows for certain. |
"...There is nothing at
all, besides this manna, before our eyes.
And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour of bdellium.
And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or
beat
it in a mortar, and baked it in pans and made cakes of it; and the
taste
was like fresh oil," Numbers 11: 6-8
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"My son eat thou honey,
because it is good; and the honeycomb, which
is sweet to thy taste: so shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto
thy
soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy
expectation
shall not be cut off." Proverbs
24:13-14 |
"He that is of cheerful
heart hath a
continual feast." Proverbs
15:15 |
"Let them give us pulse to
eat, and water to drink." Daniel
1:12-16 |
"And God said, `Behold I
have given you every herb-bearing seed, which
is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the
fruit
of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." Genesis
1:29 |
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"And when the woman saw that
the tree was good for food, and that it
was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,
she
took of the fruit there of, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband
with her; and he did it." Genesis
3:6
***NOTE--It
is likely that the forbidden fruit which the above passage speaks of
was
not the apple as the soil could not sustain the tree but more likely
fig,
date or apricot.
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"And Jacob sod (boiled) pottage: and Esau
said to Jacob, Feed me I pray thee with that same red pottage; for I am
faint: therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob said, Sell
me
this day thy birthright. And Esau said, `Behold, I am at the
point
to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob
said swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his
birthright
unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils;
and
he did eat and drink, and rose up and went his way. Thus Esau
despised
his birthright."
Genesis
25:29-34 |
"And Solomon's provisions
for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures
of meal. Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen
out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, be sides harts, and roebucks
and fallow deer, and fatted fowl." I Kings
4:22-23 |
"...and he would fain have
filled his belly with the husks that the
swine did eat..." Luke 15:16
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"...and bring hither the
fatted calf, and kill it; and let us
eat, and be merry." Luke 15:23
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"Then came the day of
unleavened bread, when the Passover lamb must
be killed. And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us
the Passover, that we may eat." Luke
22:7-8 |
"But flesh with the life
thereof, ye shall not eat" Genesis
9:4
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"It
shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all
your dwellings that ye eat neither fat not blood" Leviticus
3:17
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"You shall eat
no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep or of goat."
Leviticus
7:23
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"He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that
sacrificeth
a lamb as if he cut off a dog's neck"
Isaiah
66:3 |
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"Every moving
thing that liveth shall be meat for you;
even as the green
herb have I given you all things."
Genesis
9:3
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"And the Lord spake unto
Moses and to Aaron, saying unto
them,
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which
ye
shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. Whatsoever
parteth the hoof and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among beasts
that shall ye eat. Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them
that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel,
because
he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof, he is unclean unto
you. And the coney (badger), because he cheweth the cud, but
divideth not
the
hoof, he is unclean to you. And the hare, because he cheweth
the
cud, but divideth not the hoof, he is unclean to you. And the
swine,
though he divide the hoof and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the
cud; he is unclean to you. Of flesh shall ye not eat and their
carcass shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you."
Leviticus
11:1-8 |
"These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters:
whatsoever hath fins
and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye
eat. And all that hath not fins and scales in the seas, and in
the rivers of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing
which
is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you. They
shall
be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but
ye
shall have their carcasses in abomination. Whatsoever hath no
fins
nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you."
Leviticus 11:9-12 |
"And these are they which ye shall hold in abomination
among the fowls;
they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle and the
ossifrage
and the osprey. And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
every
raven after his kind; and the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckoo,
and the hawk after his kind, and the little owl, and the cormorant, and
the great owl, and the swan, and the pelican and the geir-eagle, and
the
stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing and the bat. All
fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto
you."
Leviticus 11:13-21 |
"And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of
beasts that
go on all fours, those are unclean to you."
Leviticus
11:27 |
"And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth
shall be an abomination;
it shall not be eaten. Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and
whatsoever
goeth upon all fours, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping
things
that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an
abomination."
Leviticus 11:41-42 |
"This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of
every living
creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth
upon the earth: To maketh a difference between the unclean and the
clean,
and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be
eaten."
Leviticus 11:46-47 |
"These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that
creep upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after
his kind. And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard,
and
the snail, and the mole. These are unclean to you among all
that
creep; whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean
until
the even."
Leviticus 11:29-31 |
"A land of wheat and barley, and vines, and fig trees and pomegranates;
a land of olive oil and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread
without
scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it."
Dueteronomy
8:8-9 |
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"Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's
milk."
Deuteronomy
14:21
***NOTE-This
passage is generally taken to mean, "Do not eat meat with milk."
Which we now know is VERY smart advice as it takes powerful enzymes to
digest meats which milk nutrilizes.
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"Thou shalt keep the feast
of unleavened bread." Exodus
23:15 |
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