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Dictionary of Bible Themes

Scripture contains much evidence of methods of cooking and types of food cooked in biblical times. Cooking was an essential part of sacrificial worship, as well as being a domestic necessity.

1 Samuel 8:10-13

Cooks

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1 Samuel 9:23-24
1 Samuel 2:13-14

Cooking utensils

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Leviticus 2:7; 6:28; 7:9; 11:35
Numbers 11:8
Ezekiel 11:3
Zechariah 14:20-21
Genesis 19:3

Cooking methods

Exodus 16:23

Baking

Leviticus 26:26
1 Samuel 28:24
Ezekiel 46:20
Exodus 16:23

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Boiling

Numbers 6:19
1 Samuel 2:13
1 Samuel 2:15

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Roasting

Exodus 12:8-9
Deuteronomy 16:5-7
Proverbs 12:27
Isaiah 44:16,19
Ezekiel 24:10

Food cooked

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Meat

Genesis 27:3-19
Exodus 29:31
Leviticus 8:31
1 Kings 17:6
Micah 3:3
Exodus 23:19; 34:26
Deuteronomy 14:21

Injunctions against cooking a goat in its mother's milk:

1 Samuel 17:17

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Grain

Joshua 5:11
Ruth 2:14
1 Samuel 25:18
2 Samuel 17:27-28
1 Kings 17:10-16
Genesis 25:29

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Stew

2 Kings 4:38-41
Lamentations 4:10

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Human flesh

2 Kings 6:26-29
Leviticus 2:7

Cooked offerings

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Leviticus 2:14; 7:9; 8:31
2 Chronicles 35:13
Ezekiel 46:20,24

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4293 water
4321 copper
4404 food
4456 grain
4468 horticulture
4480 milk
5223 banner
5436 pain
7340 clean and unclean
7402 offerings
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