Cooking is indeed a divine act that nourishes both the body and soul. When done with love and kindness, it becomes a selfless act of giving, bringing people together and creating meaningful connections. The act of cooking for others can be a powerful way to show care, compassion, and hospitality. It’s a universal language that transcends cultures and borders, evoking feelings of warmth, comfort, and belonging. The Bible says a lot of things about cooking. Here are some Bible verses about cooking.
Ezekiel 4:12
You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung.”
Ezekiel 11:3
who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This city is the pot and we are the flesh.’
Genesis 27:31
Then he also made savory food, and brought it to his father; and he said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son’s game, that you may bless me.”
1 Kings 17:12
But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering a few sticks that I may go in and prepare for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.”
John 21:9
So when they got out on the land, they *saw a charcoal fire already laid and fish placed on it, and bread.
Ezekiel 46:24
Then he said to me, “These are the boiling places where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people.”
Leviticus 26:26
When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied.
2 Kings 6:29
So we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”
Genesis 25:29
When Jacob had cooked stew, Esau came in from the field and he was famished;
Deuteronomy 16:7
You shall cook and eat it in the place which the Lord your God chooses. In the morning you are to return to your tents.
Isaiah 44:15
Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and falls down before it.
Micah 3:3
Who eat the flesh of my people,
Strip off their skin from them,
Break their bones
And chop them up as for the pot
And as meat in a kettle.”
Exodus 16:23
then he said to them, “This is what the Lord meant: Tomorrow is a sabbath observance, a holy sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning.”
1 Kings 19:6
Then he looked and behold, there was at his head a bread cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.
Ezekiel 4:15
Then He said to me, “See, I will give you cow’s dung in place of human dung over which you will prepare your bread.”
Exodus 12:8
They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Exodus 35:3
You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath day.”
Exodus 12:9
Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails.
Jeremiah 1:13
The word of the Lord came to me a second time saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a boiling pot, facing away from the north.”
Leviticus 11:35
Everything, moreover, on which part of their carcass may fall becomes unclean; an oven or a stove shall be smashed; they are unclean and shall continue as unclean to you.
Luke 10:40
But Martha was distracted with all her preparations; and she came up to Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone? Then tell her to help me.”
Proverbs 31:15
She rises also while it is still night
And gives food to her household
And portions to her maidens.
Ezekiel 24:4
Put in it the pieces,
Every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder;
Fill it with choice bones.
1 Kings 17:13
Then Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go, do as you have said, but make me a little bread cake from it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son.
Zechariah 14:20
In that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO THE LORD.” And the cooking pots in the Lord’s house will be like the bowls before the altar.
Lamentations 4:10
The hands of compassionate women
Boiled their own children;
They became food for them
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Leviticus 2:7
Now if your offering is a grain offering made in a pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
Ezekiel 11:11
This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be flesh in the midst of it, but I will judge you to the border of Israel.
2 Kings 4:40
So they poured it out for the men to eat. And as they were eating of the stew, they cried out and said, “O man of God, there is death in the pot.” And they were unable to eat.
Luke 24:42
They gave Him a piece of a broiled fish;
Numbers 11:8
The people would go about and gather it and grind it between two millstones or beat it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make cakes with it; and its taste was as the taste of cakes baked with oil.
1 Kings 19:5
He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, “Arise, eat.”
1 Chronicles 9:31
Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the responsibility over the things which were baked in pans.
1 Samuel 8:13
He will also take your daughters for perfumers and cooks and bakers.
Zechariah 14:21
Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of hosts; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts in that day.
1 Kings 17:16
The bowl of flour was not exhausted nor did the jar of oil become empty, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke through Elijah.
Leviticus 6:21
It shall be prepared with oil on a griddle. When it is well stirred, you shall bring it. You shall present the grain offering in baked pieces as a soothing aroma to the Lord.
Leviticus 7:9
Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in the oven and everything prepared in a pan or on a griddle shall belong to the priest who presents it.
John 21:12
Jesus *said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” None of the disciples ventured to question Him, “Who are You?” knowing that it was the Lord.
Exodus 12:16
On the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you.
Ezekiel 46:19-24
Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which faced north; and behold, there was a place at the extreme rear toward the west. He said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering and where they shall bake the grain offering, in order that they may not bring them out into the outer court to transmit holiness to the people.” Then he brought me out into the outer court and led me across to the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a small court.