BREAD THE STAFF OF LIFE. I 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.

Gee xviil, 5. And I will fetch a noel of bread, and comfort ye bearts, after that ye shall

Gen. xli. 54. And the seven ars of dearth began to come, Poling as Joseph had said: and e dearth was in all lands; but all the land of Egypt there was Mad. Gestivi, 12, 15. And Joseph shed his father, and his par, and all his father's old with bread, according handles. And when money led in the land of Egypt, and in and of Canaan, all the Egypanto Joseph, and said, We as bread.. di, 4, 8. Then said the to Moses, Behold, I will bread from heaven for you; be people shall go out and her a certain rate every day, il may prove them, whether v walk in my law, or no. Moses said, This shall be, the Loo shall give you in ng desh to eat, and in the bread to the full; for that le beareth your murmur* ye murmur against and what are we? your murwag ay not against us, but

THE the LORD.

mir, 32. And Aaron and shall eat the flesh of the

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......

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

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

Ezek. iv, 16. Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I the bread that is in the Jerusalem: and they shall eat will break the staff of bread in by the door of the taber-bread by weight, and with care... of the congregation.

11, 23. And he set the Luke xv, 17. And when he came order upon it before the to himself, he said, How many the LORD had command-hired servants of my father's have bread enough, and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

Li, 26. And when I have the staff of your bread, ten shall bake your bread in and they shall deliver bread again by weight: jesball eat, and not be satis

dratx, 5. And old shoes and upon their feet, and old es upon them; and all the of their provision was dry dy.

vill, 6. And the princes h said, Are the hands of Ad Zalmunna now in thine dat we should give bread Line army?

xix, 5. And it came to a the fourth day, when e early in the morning, rese up to depart: and the

father said unto his son*Comfort thine heart with red of bread, and afterward way.

iii, 36. And it shall come that every one that is left

John vi, 5-7. When Jesus then lifted

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 ready the present against Joseph came at noon; for they heard that 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. And Moses said 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 in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.

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

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

2 Kings iv, 8. And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and

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 all the days of his life. eat bread continually before him

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

2 Thess. iii, 8, 12. Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quiet

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

1 Kings xvil, 12, 14, 16. And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but au handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may

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 themselve any victual.

Exod. xvi, 23. And he said unt them, This is that which the Lo hath said, To-morrow is the res bake that which ye will bake of the holy sabbath unto the Lor day, and seethe that ye will sect

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 sald 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, 12. 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

And

corn in the husk thereof. 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. viii, 13. And he will take your daughters to be confection

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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 Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal. . . . . .

lay up for you, to be kept unt the morning.

fine flour, and bake twelve cak Lev. xxiv, 5. And thou shalt tak thereof; two tenth deals shall b in one cake.

Lev. xxvi, 26. ... Ten wome shall bake your bread in on

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

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

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

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

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

meal......

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

AND THEN BAKED. Gen. xviii, 6. And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarahi, 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 barley bread tumbled into t host of Midian, and came unt tent, and smote it that it fell, a overturned it, that the tent a along.

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

1 Sam. x, 4. And they will ute thee, and give thee t loaves of bread; which thou st receive of their hands.

1 Sam. xxi, 3. Now there&t what is under thine hand? giv five loaves of bread in mine La or what there is present.

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

2 Sam. xiii, 6, 8. So Ambon down, and made himself sick a when the king was come to him, Amnon said unto the king pray thee, let Tamar my come and make me a cond cakes in my sight, that I me at her hand. So Tamar wei her brother Amnon's house; (

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

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

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

1ron. xxili, 29. Both for the bw-bread, and for the fine flour, eat-offering, and for the unareaed cakes, and for that which

ted in the pan, and for that Watch is fried, and for all manner sure and size.

Jr.xxxvii, 21. Then Zedekiah king commanded that they cd commit Jeremiah into the of the prison, and that they ve him daily a piece of led out of the baker's street, the bread in the city were

, 12. And thou shalt eat abrey-cakes, and thou shalt with dung that cometh out fa, in their sight.

Ani, 9. Thou shalt make them Sary oven in the time of thine the LORD shall swallow pin his wrath, and the fire devour them.

vil, 4, 6-8. They are all rers, as an oven heated by baker, cho ceaseth from raister he hath kneaded the until it be leavened. For have made ready their heart an oven, whiles they lie in . their baker sleepeth all the get in the morning it burneth as Sing fire. They are all hot as in, and have devoured their Ephraim, he hath himself among the people: traim is a cake not turned. di, xili, 23. Another parable *he unto them; The kingdom waven is like unto leaven, a woman took and hid in measures of meal, till the le was leavened. Hatt. xvl, 6, 12. Then Jesus said them, Take heed, and beware leaven of the Pharisees and the Badducees. Then underd they how that he bade them beware of the leaven of bread,

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 sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven,

and wickedness; but with the unneither with the leaven of malice leavened 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.

The

1 Sam. xxviii, 24. 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?

DIET: SUCH AS MILK, BUTTER, CHEESE, HONEY, ETC.

(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 pottage; for I am faint.... And 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. Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse. . . . .

again to Gilgal: and there was a 2 Kings iv, 38. And Elisha came dearth in the land; and the sons fore him: and he said unto his of the prophets were sitting beservant, 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.

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

FRUIT OF THE CAROB TREF.

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.

Iran, xi, 17-19. And David , and said, Oh that one give me drink of the water the well of Beth-lehem, that is gate! And the three brake gh the host of the Philisand drew water out of the Beth-lehem, that was by mate and took it, and brought farid: but David would not

Pa. xlif, 2. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

Prov. xxv, 25. As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

Isa. xxix, 8. It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against

mount Zion.

Isa. xli, 17. When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

Isa. xlix, 10. They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

Isa. lv, 1. Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money: come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money, and without price.

, but poured it out to the And said, my God forbid it that should do this thing: Iink the blood of these that have put their lives in for with the jeopardy of res they brought it: therewould not drink it. These ags did these three mightiest. 4. xxxii, 11. Doth not Gab persuade you to give yourselves to die by famine by thirst, saying, The LORD Isa. lxv, 13. Therefore thus saith ed shall deliver us out of the the Lord GOD, Behold, my sernl of the king of Assyria? vants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall A 15. And gavest them drink, but ye shall be thirsty: befrom heaven for their hun-hold, my servants shall rejoice, hd broughtest forth water but ye shall be ashamed. out of the rock for their

ix, 21. They gave me also my meat; and in my thirst rave me vinegar to drink. vil, 5. Hungry and thirsty

vel fainted in them.

v. 13. Therefore my people

e into captivity, because hace no knowledge; and their trable men are famished, and multitude dried up with

-4 xix, 29. After this, Jesus wag that all things were now plished, that the scripture be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. 1 for. iv, 11. Even unto this ent hour we both hanger, and and are naked, and are ed, and have no certain welling-place.

Jer. i, 25. Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst.

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Matth. xxv, 35. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye

took me in.

John iv, 13-15. Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst

again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

that great day of the feast, Jesus John vii, 37. In the last day, stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

Rom. xii, 20. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

Rev. vii, 16. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

Rev. xxi. 6. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is

athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

DRINK OF VARIOUS KINDS USUALLY TAKEN OR PRESENTED IN A CUP. Gen. xl. 11. And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup

into Pharaoh's hand.

had nothing, save one little ewe2 Sam. xil, 3. But the poor man lamb, which he had bought, and nourished up; and it grew up together with him, and with his children: it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.

1 Kings x, 5. And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cup-bearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.

Neh. i, 11. O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name; and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this