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maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth Inan's heart. These wait all upon thee, that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.

P3. cvil, 9. For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

Ps. cxxxii, 15. I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.

Ps. cxxxvi, 25. Who giveth food to all flesh; for his mercy endureth

for ever.

Ps. cxlv, 15, 16. The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

Ps. cxlvii, 14. He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.

Jer. xxxi, 12. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd; and their soul shall be as a watered garden: and they hall not sorrow any more at all.

Hosea xi, 4. I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

Acts xiv, 17. Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

BUT IN CONNECTION WITH MEANS.

Gen. vi, 21. And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

Exod. xvi, 16. This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating; an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.

Neh. v, 17. Moreover, there were at my table au hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, besides those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about

us.

2 Kings XXV, 30. And his allowance was a continual allow ance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.

Prov. xii, 11. He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

Prov. xx, 13. Love not sleep lest thou come to poverty: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Prov. xxxi, 27. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and

eateth not the bread of idleness.

Jer. 1, 34. And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion, until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

Dan. 1, 5. And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.

Matth. xiv, 15, 10. And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves victuals. But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.

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Num. xi, 4, 18-20. And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; (for ye have wept in the ears of the flesh to eat? for it was well with LORD, saying, Who shall give us us in Egypt:) therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days: But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsone unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

1 Kings iv, 22. And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty Job xx, 23. When he is about to measures of fine flour, and three-fill his belly, God shall cast the score measures of meal. Ofury of his wrath upon him, and

shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

Ps. lxxviii, 29-31. So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire: They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

Pa. evi, 14, 15. But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and And tempted God in the desert. he gave them their request; but

sent leanness into their soul.

Prov. xiii, 25. The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: But the belly of the wicked shall

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Rom. xiv, 6. eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

1 Cor. x, 30, 31. For if I by grace spoken of for that which I give be a partaker, why am I evil

thanks? Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

ture of God is good, and nothing 1 Tim. iv, 4, 5. For every creato be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God, and prayer.

VEGETABLE DIET.

Gen. 1, 29. And God said, Behold, I have given you every hert bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

Dan. 1, 12, 16. Prove thy serVants, I beseech thee, ten days, and let them give us pulse to eat; and water to drink. Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gavo them pulse.

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Gen. xli, 51. And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

Gen. xlvii, 12, 15. And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread.

Exod. xvi, 4, 8. Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no. And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.

Exod. xxix, 32. And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the

in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver, and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.

1 Sam. xxviii, 22. Now therefore, unto the voice of thine handmaid, I pray thee, hearken thou also and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.

1 Sam. xxx, 11. And they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water.

Neh. ix, 15. And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their

thirst.

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Ps. cv, 16. Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.

the king commanded that they Jer. xxxvii, 21. Then Zedekiah should commit Jeremiah into the should give him daily a piece of court of the prison, and that they until all the bread in the city were bread out of the bakers' street, spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

Ezek. iv, 16. Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in

ram, and the bread that is in the Jerusalem: and they shall eat
basket, by the door of the taber-bread by weight, and with care...
nacle of the congregation.
Erod. xl, 23. And he set the
bread in order upon it before the
LORD; as the LORD had command-
ed Moses.

Lev. xxvi, 26. And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satis

fied.

Joshua ix, 5. And old shoes and cloute: upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.

Judges viii, 6. And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?

Judges xix, 5. And it came to pass, on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart; and the damsel's father said unto his sonIn-law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.

1 Sam. II, 36. And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left

Luke xv, 17. And when he came hired servants of my father's have to himself, he said, How many bread enough, and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

Gen. xxxix, 6. And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. . . . .

Gen. xliii, 25, 31. And they made came at noon: for they heard that ready the present against Joseph he washed his face, and went out, they should eat bread there. And and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.

Exod. ii. 20. And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.

Exod. xviii, 12. And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burntoffering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.

Lev. viii, 31. unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and there eat it with the bread that is I commanded, saying, Aaron and in the basket of consecrations, as his sons shall eat it.

And Moses said

that, when ye eat of the bread of Num. xv, 19. Then it shall be, heave-offering unto the LORD. the land, ye shall offer up an

2 81m. ix, 7. And David said surely shew thee kindness for unto him, Fear not: for I will Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of bread at my table continually.

2 Kings iv, 8. And it fell on a where was a great woman; and day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither

to eat bread.

2 Kings xxv, 29. And changed his prison-garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.

John vi, 5-7. When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat? (And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.) Philip answered him. Two hun-hungry, give him bread to eat; Prov. xxv, 21. If thine enemy be dred pennyworth of bread is not and if he be thirsty, give him sufficient for them, that every one them may take a little. water to drink.

John xxi, 13. Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.

1 Cor. x, 17. For we, being many, are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

HENCE, TO EAT BREAD, IS
A GENERAL TERM FOR

TAKING FOOD.

Gen iii, 19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground.

Eccles. ix, 7. Go thy way, eat wine with a merry heart; for God thy bread with joy, and drink thy now accepteth thy works.

Matth. xv, 2. Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Mark iii, 20. And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

Mark vi, 36. Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

Luke xiv, 1. And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath-day, that they watched him.

aries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

2 Sam. xvii, 19. And the woman took and spread a covering over ground corn thereon. . . . . . the well's mouth, and spread

2 Thess. iii, 8, 12. Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour 1 Kings xvii, 12, 14, 16. And she and travail night and day, that we said, As the LORD thy God liveth, might not be chargeable to any I have not a cake, but au handful of you. Now them that are such of meal in a barrel, and a little we command and exhort by our oil in a cruse: and, behold. I am Lord Jesus Christ, that with quiet-gathering two sticks, that I may ness they work, and eat their own go in and dress it for me and my bread.

PRODUCE OF THE FIELD, SOMETIMES PREPARED IN A VERY SIMPLE FORM. Lev. xxiii, 14. And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the self-same day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, in all your dwellings. Ruth ii, 14. . . . . . . And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.

1 Sam. xvii, 17. And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren.

1 Sam. xxv, 18. Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, . and five measures of parched corn. . . . . 2 Sam. xvii, 28. . . Earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse.

2 Kings iv, 42. And there came a man from Baal-shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.

Matth. xii, 1. At that time Jesus went on the sabbath-day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungered, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.

SOMETIMES GROUND INTO MEAL, AND PREPARED BY FEMALES OR SLAVES.

Judges xvi, 21. But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.

1 Sam. vill, 13. And he will take your daughters to be confection

son, that we may eat it, and die. For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD Sendeth rain upon the earth. And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.

2 Kings iv, 41. But he said, Then bring meal: and he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat: and there was no harm in the pot.

1 Chron. xii, 40. Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naph tali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal.

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unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.

Exod. xvi, 23. And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To-morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: day, and seethe that ye will seethe; bake that which ye will bake toand that which remaineth over lay up for you, to be kept until the morning.

fine flour, and bake twelve cakes Lev. xxiv, 5. And thou shalt take thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.

Lev. xxvi, 26. . . . Ten women

shall bake your bread in one

oven.....

went about, and gathered it, and Num. xi, 8. And the people ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.

Num. xv, 20. Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough, for an heave-offering: as we do the heave-offering of the thrashing-floor, so shall ye heave it.

Judges vii, 13. And when GideProv. xxxi, 15. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth man that told a dream unto his on was come, behold, there was a meat to her household, and a por-fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamtion to her maidens.

Eccles. xii, 4. And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low.

and grind meal. Isa, xlvii, 2. Take the millstones,

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Lam. v, 13. They took the young under the wood. men to grind, and the children fell

Hosea viii, 7. . . . . . It hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal.

Matth. xxiv, 41. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the left. one shall be taken, and the other

AND THEN BAKED. Gen. xviii, 6. And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Saralı, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

Exod. viii, 3. And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up, and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs.

Exod. xii, 39. And they baked

ed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.

Judges viii, 5. And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me......

1 Sam. x, 4. And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.

1 Sam. xxi, 3. Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.

even

2 Sam. vi, 19. And he dealt all among the people, among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.

2 Sam. xiii, 6. 8. So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand. So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; (and

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he was laid down;) and she took four, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.

1 Kings xvil, 13. And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.

1 Kings xix, 6. And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head: and he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.

1 Chron. xvi, 3. And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.

1 Chron. xxiii, 29. Both for the shew-bread, and for the fine flour, for meat-offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size.

Jer. xxxvii, 21. Then Zedekiah

the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the baker's street, until all the bread in the city were spent.

Ezek. iv, 12. And thou shalt eat it as barley-cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

Ps. xxi, 9. Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger, the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

Hosea vii, 4, 6-8. They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after' he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in walt: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges: Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people: Ephraim is a cake not turned.

Matt. xiil. 33. Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

Matt. xvi, 6, 12. Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed, and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread,

but of the doctrine of the Phari- | OTHER ELEMENTS OF
sees and of the Sadducees.
DIET: SUCH AS MILK,
BUTTER, CHEESE, HONEY,
ETC.

Luke xii, 28. If then God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

1 Cor. v, 6-8. Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacri

ficed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Gal. v, 9. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

(See under Architecture,
FURNITURE.)

BREAD

SOMETIMES

UNLEAVENED.

Gen. xix, 3. And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house: and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

Exod. xii, 17, 18. And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this self-same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.

Num. vi, 15. And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat-offering, and their drink-offerings.

Deut. xvi, 8. Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God; thou shalt do no work therein.

1 Sam. xxviii, 24. The woman took flour and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof

2 Kings xxiii, 9. Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

Mark xiv, 12. And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?

(See under Agriculture, and under Animals, - BEE, FLOCK, HERD.)

FOOD IN EGYPT.

Num. xi, 5. We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions and the garlick.

BEANS, POTTAGE.

sod pottage: and Esau came from Gen. xxv, 29-34. And Jacob the field, and he was faint. And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red potAnd tage; for I am faint

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 lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way.

2 Sam. xvii, 28. Bronght beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse.

2 Kings iv, 38. And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.

Ezek. iv, 9. Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and

make thee bread thereof.

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Haggai ii, 12. If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

FRUIT OF THE CAROB TREE.

Luke xv, 16. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

FRUITS AND HERBS. 1 Sam. xxv, 18. Then Abigail took.... an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

1 Sam. xxx, 12. And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and

two clusters of raisins: and when he bad eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.

2 Sam. xvi, 1, 2. And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer-fruits, and a bottle of wine. And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer-fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may

drink.

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Num, xi, 6-9. But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, besides this manna, before our eyes. And the manna was as coriander-seed, and the colour

thereof as 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 of it was as the taste of fresh oil. And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

ANIMAL FOOD. (See under Animals, page 31.)

DELICACIES.

Gen. xxvii, 4, 6, 7, 14, 17, 25. And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die. And Rebecca spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless

to me, and I will eat of my son's | be slain in the sanctuary of the
venison, that my soul may bless LORD?
thee. And he brought it near to
him, and he did eat: and he
brought him wine, and he drank.

Gen. xlix, 20. Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

Job xxxvi, 16. Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

CANNIBALISM.

Lev. xxvi, 27-29. And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

Deut. xxviii, 53-57. And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, where

with thine enemies shall distress

thee: So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his his bosom, and toward the rembrother, and toward the wife of nant of his children which he shall leave: So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat; because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. The tender and delicate woman aniong you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

them to eat the flesh of their sons, Jer. xix, 9. And I will cause and they shall eat every one the and the flesh of their daughters; flesh of his friend, in the siege and

Ezek. V. 10. Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

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Isa. ix, 19-21.

wrath of the LORD of hosts is the Through the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother. And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall cat every man the flesh of his own arm: nassel, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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Isa. xlix, 26. And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

DRINK. THIRST.

Exod. xvii, 1-3. And all the con

gregation of the children of Israel

thee before the LORD before my straitness wherewith their enemies Journeyed from the wilderness of

death. And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved. And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. And he said, Bring it near

and they that seek their lives,

shall straiten them.

Lam. ii, 20. Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the woman eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet

ing to the commandment of the Sin, after their journeys, accordLORD, and pitched in Rephidim. and there was no water for the people to drink. Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto

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