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19Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.

29And God said: “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant upon the earth, and all the trees that have in themselves the ability to sow their own kind, to be food for you,

3And everything that moves and lives will be food for you. Just as with the edible plants, I have delivered them all to you,

35Then Jesus said to them: “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

20Do not be willing to be in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in the carousings of those who gather to feed on flesh. 21For those who waste time drinking, and who surrender themselves to symbols, will be consumed. And those who sleep will be clothed in rags.

9And you shall take for yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and vetch. And you shall set them in one vessel, and you shall make for yourself bread by the number of days that you will sleep upon your side: three hundred and ninety days shall you shall eat from it.

4And in response he said, “It has been written: ‘Not by bread alone shall man live, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”

23Say to the sons of Israel: The fat of a sheep, and of an ox, and of a goat you shall not eat. 24The fat of a carcass that has died on its own, or of an animal that has been seized by a wild beast, you shall have for various uses.

11And Daniel said to Malasar, whom the leader of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 12“I beg you to test us, your servants, for ten days, and let roots be given to us to eat and water to drink, 13and then observe our faces, and the faces of the children who eat the king’s food, and then deal with your servants according to what you see.” 14When he had heard these words, he tested them for ten days. 15But, after ten days, their faces appeared better and fatter than all the children who had eaten from the king’s food. 16Thereafter, Malasar took away their portions and their wine for drinking, and he gave them roots.

1And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: 2Say to the sons of Israel: These are the animals that you ought to eat out of all the living things of the earth. 3All that has a divided hoof, and that chews over again, among the cattle, you shall eat. 4But whatever certainly chews over again, but has a hoof that is not divided, such as the camel and others, these you shall not eat, and you shall consider them to be among what is unclean. 5The rock rabbit which chews over again, and whose hoof is not divided, is unclean, 6and so also is the hare, for it too chews over again, yet its hoof is not divided,

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6And the Lord of hosts will cause all the peoples on this mountain to feast on fatness, to feast on wine, a fatness full of marrow, a purified wine.

3He afflicted you with need, and he gave you Manna as your food, which neither you nor your fathers knew, so as to reveal to you that it is not by bread alone that man lives, but by every word that goes forth from the mouth of God.