Quotes about Sustenance
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
- Genesis 9:3
Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
- Genesis 21:19
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,
- Genesis 28:20
For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
- Genesis 45:6
And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’
- Genesis 45:11
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.
- Exodus 16:4
When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
- Exodus 16:15
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
- Exodus 16:35
You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
- Leviticus 26:10
The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.
- Numbers 11:8
Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
- Numbers 11:13
You will eat it not for one or two days, nor for five or ten or twenty days,
- Numbers 11:19