Dictionary of Bible Themes: 5268 cooking

5268 cooking

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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.

Cooks

1 Samuel 8:10-13 See also 1 Samuel 9:23-24

Cooking utensils

1 Samuel 2:13-14 See also Leviticus 2:7; Leviticus 6:28; Leviticus 7:9; Leviticus 11:35; Numbers 11:8; Ezekiel 11:3; Zechariah 14:20-21

Cooking methods

Baking

Genesis 19:3; Exodus 16:23; Leviticus 26:26; 1 Samuel 28:24; Ezekiel 46:20

Boiling

Exodus 16:23 See also Numbers 6:19; 1 Samuel 2:13

Roasting

1 Samuel 2:15 See also Exodus 12:8-9; Deuteronomy 16:5-7; Proverbs 12:27; Isaiah 44:16,19

Food cooked

Meat

Ezekiel 24:10 See also Genesis 27:3-19; Exodus 29:31; Leviticus 8:31; 1 Kings 17:6; Micah 3:3

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

Exodus 23:19; Exodus 34:26; Deuteronomy 14:21

Grain

1 Samuel 17:17 See also Joshua 5:11; Ruth 2:14; 1 Samuel 25:18; 2 Samuel 17:27-28; 1 Kings 17:10-16

Stew

Genesis 25:29 See also 2 Kings 4:38-41

Human flesh

Lamentations 4:10 See also 2 Kings 6:26-29

Cooked offerings

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