Diet of the Jews, The

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Genesis 18:7 OT

  Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

• Genesis 18:8 OT

  He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

• Genesis 27:4 OT

  Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”

• Exodus 16:3 OT

  and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole…

• Numbers 11:5 OT

  We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

• Exodus 16:4-12 OT

  Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. It shall come to pass on the sixth…

• Ruth 2:14 OT

  At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and left some of it.

• Proverbs 15:17 OT

  Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

• Proverbs 23:1-3 OT

  When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite. Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

• Lamentations 4:5 OT

  Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

• Amos 6:4 OT

  Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall;

• Amos 6:5 OT

  who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

• Luke 16:19 NT

  “Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

• Genesis 49:12 OT

  His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.

• Proverbs 27:27 OT

  There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.

• Deuteronomy 32:14 OT

  butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.

• 2 Samuel 17:29 OT

  honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

• 1 Samuel 17:18 OT

  and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news.”

• Job 10:10 OT

  Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

• Genesis 18:5 OT

  I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.” They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”

• 1 Samuel 17:17 OT

  Jesse said to David his son, “Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers;

• 2 Samuel 6:19 OT

  He gave to all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed, each to his own house.

• Proverbs 9:2 OT

  She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. She has also set her table.

• Matthew 7:10 NT

  Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?