Dictionary of Bible Themes Dictionary of Bible Themes » 5000 Humanity » 5200 Human civilisation » 5222 baking Cooking in an oven or over an open fire. Bread baked in this way was the staple diet of the population in biblical times. Bricks were also sometimes produced by baking. Baking bread In ovens Leviticus 26:26 See also Exodus 8:3; Leviticus 7:9; Leviticus 11:35 Over open fires 1 Kings 19:6 See also Isaiah 44:14-19; Ezekiel 4:9-15; John 21:9 Unleavened bread Exodus 12:39 Bread was usually baked with yeast, but where there was insufficient time for kneading and proving, the raising agent was omitted. See also Genesis 19:1-3; Leviticus 6:14-17; 1 Samuel 28:24 Baking of offerings Leviticus 2:4-10 See also Leviticus 6:14-18; Leviticus 7:9-10; Leviticus 23:15-18; Leviticus 24:5-6; 2 Kings 4:42 Baking of manna Baking of clay Daniel 2:32-33 See also Genesis 11:3; Daniel 2:41-43 Bakers At home Genesis 18:6 See also Leviticus 26:26 Women baked at home or in communal ovens; 2 Samuel 13:6-8 At royal courts 1 Samuel 8:13 See also Genesis 40:1-22; Genesis 41:10 In the temple 1 Chronicles 9:31 See also 1 Chronicles 23:28-29; Ezekiel 46:20 As tradesmen in towns Jeremiah 37:21 See also Hosea 7:4 See also
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