Bible Verses About Bread

Sigh silently, don't observe mourning for the dead, bind your turban on your head, put your sandals on your feet, don't cover your upper lip, and don't eat the food people prepare for mourners."

I spoke to the people in the morning, and that evening my wife died. So I did the following morning as I had been ordered.

The people asked me, "Won't you tell us what these actions of yours mean for us?"

I answered them, "The word of ADONAI came to me, telling me

to speak to the house of Isra'el and say that this is what Adonai ELOHIM says: 'I am about to profane my sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the delight of your eyes and your heart's desire. Your sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die by the sword.

But you are to do as I have done - not cover your upper lips, not eat the food people prepare for mourners,

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker, who doesn't stoke the fire from kneading time till the dough has risen.

"On their king's special day the leaders inflame him with wine, and he joins hands with scorners,

who ready themselves like an oven while they wait for their chance. Their baker sleeps through the night; then in the morning it bursts into flame.

They are all as hot as an oven, and they devour their judges. All their kings have fallen; not one of them calls out to me.

After instructing the crowds to sit down on the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fish and, looking up toward heaven, made a b'rakhah. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the talmidim, who gave them to the crowds.

They all ate as much as they wanted, and they took up twelve baskets full of the pieces left over.

Those eating numbered about five thousand men, plus women and children.

Yeshua asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven, and a few fish."

After telling the crowd to sit down on the ground,

he took the seven loaves and the fish, made a b'rakhah, broke the loaves and gave them to the talmidim, who gave them to the people.

Every one ate his fill, and they took seven large baskets full of the leftover pieces.

for God’s bread is the one who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.”

They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread from now on.”

Yeshua answered, “I am the bread which is life! Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever trusts in me will never be thirsty.

For what I received from the Lord is just what I passed on to you — that the Lord Yeshua, on the night he was betrayed, took bread;

and after he had made the b’rakhah he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this as a memorial to me”;