- Genesis 3:19:
“By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
- Genesis 14:18:
“Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High,”
- Exodus 16:4:
“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.’”
- Exodus 16:15:
“When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, ‘What is it?’ For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, ‘It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat.’”
- Exodus 29:23:
“Take one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is before the Lord.”
- Leviticus 2:4:
“When you bring a grain offering baked in an oven, it is to consist of the finest flour: either thick loaves made without yeast and with olive oil mixed in or thin loaves made without yeast and brushed with olive oil.”
- Leviticus 23:17:
“From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the Lord.”
- Numbers 6:15:
“and a basket of bread made without yeast—thick loaves made of the finest flour and without yeast, kneaded with olive oil, along with thin loaves made without yeast and brushed with olive oil.”
- Deuteronomy 8:3:
“He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”
- Deuteronomy 16:3:
“Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.”
- Judges 19:5:
“On the fourth day, they got up early and he prepared to leave, but the woman’s father said to his son-in-law, ‘Refresh yourself with something to eat; then you can go.’”
- Ruth 2:14:
“At mealtime Boaz said to her, ‘Come over here. Have some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar.’ When she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her some roasted grain. She ate all she wanted and had some left over.”
- 1 Samuel 17:17:
“Now Jesse said to his son David, ‘Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.’”
- 1 Kings 17:6:
“The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.”
- Nehemiah 5:14:
“Moreover, from the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, until his thirty-second year—twelve years—neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.”
- Psalm 78:24:
“He rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.”
- Psalm 105:40:
“They asked, and he brought them quail; he fed them well with the bread of heaven.”
- Proverbs 4:17:
“They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.”
- Proverbs 20:17:
“Food gained by fraud tastes sweet, but one ends up with a mouth full of gravel.”
- Isaiah 30:20:
“Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.”
- Isaiah 55:2:
“Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.”
- Ezekiel 4:12:
“Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel.”
- Matthew 4:4:
“Jesus answered, ‘It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
- Matthew 6:11:
“Give us today our daily bread.”
- Matthew 15:2:
“and asked, ‘Where is that born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.’”
- Mark 6:8:
“These were his instructions: ‘Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts.’”
- Luke 4:4:
“Jesus answered, ‘It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’”
- Luke 11:3:
“Give us each day our daily bread.”
- Luke 24:30:
“When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them.”
- John 6:35:
“Then Jesus declared, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.’”