Dict: easton - Food

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Food @ Originally the Creator granted the use of the vegetable world for food to man kjv@Genesis:1:29), with the exception mentioned (2:17). The use of animal food was probably not unknown to the antediluvians. There is, however, a distinct law on the subject given to Noah after the Deluge kjv@Genesis:9:2-5). Various articles of food used in the patriarchal age are mentioned in kjv@Genesis:18:6-8 kjv@Genesis:25:34 kjv@Genesis:27:3 -4; 43:11. Regarding the food of the Israelites in Egypt, see kjv@Exodus:16:3; kjv@Numbers:11:5. In the wilderness their ordinary food was miraculously supplied in the manna. They had also quails kjv@Exodus:16:11-13; kjv@Numbers:11:31). In the law of Moses there are special regulations as to the animals to be used for food kjv@Leviticus:11; Deuteronomy:14:3-21). The Jews were also forbidden to use as food anything that had been consecrated to idols kjv@Exodus:34:15), or animals that had died of disease or had been torn by wild beasts kjv@Exodus:22:31; kjv@Leviticus:22:8). (
See also for other restrictions kjv@Exodus:23:19 kjv@Exodus:29:13-22; kjv@Leviticus:3:4-9 kjv@Leviticus:9:18-19 kjv@Leviticus:22:8 ; kjv@Deuteronomy:14:21.) But beyond these restrictions they had a large grant from God kjv@Deuteronomy:14:26 kjv@Deuteronomy:32:13-14). Food was prepared for use in various ways. The cereals were sometimes eaten without any preparation kjv@Leviticus:23:14; kjv@Deuteronomy:23:25; kjv@2Kings:4:42). Vegetables were cooked by boiling kjv@Genesis:25:30 kjv@Genesis:25:34 kjv@2Kings:4:38-39), and thus also other articles of food were prepared for use kjv@Genesis:27:4; kjv@Proverbs:23:3; kjv@Ezekiel:24:10; kjv@Luke:24:42; kjv@John:21:9). Food was also prepared by roasting kjv@Exodus:12:8; kjv@Leviticus:2:14). (
See COOK.)