He then handed out to each Israelite man and woman a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.

Gideon went and prepared a young goat, ¹  along with unleavened bread made from an ephah of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought the food ²  to him under the oak tree and presented it to him.

Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The corpses you have dumped ¹  in the midst of the city ²  are the meat, and this city ³  is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it. ⁴ 

Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, ¹  pray to ²  your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess ³  the land?

Moses said, “You will know this ¹  when the Lord gives you ²  meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the Lord has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we? ³  Your murmurings are not against us, ⁴  but against the Lord.”

No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves: ‘I burned half of it in the fire – yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?’ ¹ 

that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols ¹  and from blood and from what has been strangled ²  and from sexual immorality. ³  If you keep yourselves from doing these things, ⁴  you will do well. Farewell. ⁵ 

But ¹  you must not eat meat ²  with its life (that is, ³  its blood) in it. ⁴ 

Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that was in the basket at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

“‘You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. ¹  You must not practice either divination or soothsaying. ² 

Samuel said to the cook, “Give me the portion of meat that I gave to you – the one I asked you to keep with you.”

so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare. ¹ 

You handed us ¹  over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations.

Man ate the food of the mighty ones. ¹  He sent them more than enough to eat. ² 

There must not be a scrap of yeast within your land ¹  for seven days, nor can any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until the next morning. ² 

but the flesh and the hide he completely burned up ¹  outside the camp. ² 

On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you ¹  in all your villages. ²  Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full. ¹ 

They willfully challenged God ¹  by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

The lions roar for prey, seeking their food from God. ¹