Then ¹  he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven he gave thanks ²  and broke them. He gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

Pharaoh was enraged with his two officials, ¹  the cupbearer and the baker,

but the chief baker he impaled, just as Joseph had predicted. ¹ 

He will take your daughters to be ointment makers, cooks, and bakers.

She said, “As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.” ¹ 

But the former governors who preceded me had burdened the people and had taken food and wine from them, in addition to ¹  forty shekels of silver. Their associates were also domineering over the people. But I did not behave in this way, due to my fear of God.

He will not look on the streams, ¹  the rivers, which are the torrents ²  of honey and butter. ³ 

It is by these that he judges ¹  the nations and supplies food in abundance.

In all hard work ¹  there is profit, but merely talking about it ²  only brings ³  poverty. ⁴ 

Do not crave that ruler’s ¹  delicacies, for ²  that food is deceptive. ³ 

Your ancestors ¹  ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that. ¹ 

They set a place for him, a separate place for his brothers, ¹  and another for the Egyptians who were eating with him. (The Egyptians are not able to eat with Hebrews, for the Egyptians think it is disgusting ²  to do so.) ³ 

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.

But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away ¹  because of the famine.

“You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with yeast; the sacrifice from the feast of Passover must not remain until the following morning. ¹ 

He must present one of each kind of grain offering ¹  as a contribution offering ²  to the Lord; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offering.

By the ninth day of the fourth month ¹  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ²  had no food.

Jehoiachin ¹  took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.

Remove falsehood and lies ¹  far from me; do not give me poverty or riches, feed me with my allotted portion ²  of bread, ³