vegetables
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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,
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,
3And everything that moves and lives will be food for you. Just as with the edible plants, I have delivered them all to you,
2For one person believes that he may eat all things, but if another is weak, let him eat plants.
16Thereafter, Malasar took away their portions and their wine for drinking, and he gave them roots.
5We remember the fish that we ate freely in Egypt; we call to mind the cucumbers, and melons, and leeks, and onions, and garlic.
17It is better to be called to vegetables with charity, than to a fatted calf with hatred.
8Yet food does not commend us to God. For if we eat, we will not have more, and if we do not eat, we will not have less.
31Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever else you may do, do everything for the glory of God.
39And one went out into the field, so that he might collect wild herbs. And he found something like a wild vine, and he gathered from it bitter fruits of the field, and he filled his cloak. And returning, he cut these up for the pot of soup. But he did not know what it was.
25Whatever is sold in the market, you may eat, without asking questions for the sake of conscience. 26“The earth and all its fullness belong to the Lord.”
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.
11For as the earth brings forth its seedlings and the garden produces its seeds, so will the Lord God bring forth justice and praise in the sight of all the nations.
12And above the torrent, on its banks on both sides, every kind of fruit tree will rise up. Their foliage will not fall away, and their fruit will not fail. Every single month they will bring forth first-fruits. For its waters will go forth from the sanctuary. And its fruits will be for food, and its leaves will be for medicine.”
3prohibiting marriage, abstaining from foods, which God has created to be accepted with thanksgiving by the faithful and by those who have understood the truth. 4For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected which is received with thanksgiving;