5268 cooking

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

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

Cooking utensils

1Sa 2:13-14 See also Lev 2:7; Lev 6:28; Lev 7:9; Lev 11:35; Nu 11:8; Eze 11:3; Zec 14:20-21

Cooking methods

Baking Ge 19:3; Ex 16:23; Lev 26:26; 1Sa 28:24; Eze 46:20

Boiling Ex 16:23 See also Nu 6:19; 1Sa 2:13

Roasting 1Sa 2:15 See also Ex 12:8-9; Dt 16:5-7; Pr 12:27; Isa 44:16,19

Food cooked

Meat Eze 24:10 See also Ge 27:3-19; Ex 29:31; Lev 8:31; 1Ki 17:6; Mic 3:3 Injunctions against cooking a goat in its mother’s milk: Ex 23:19; Ex 34:26; Dt 14:21

Grain 1Sa 17:17 See also Jos 5:11; Ru 2:14; 1Sa 25:18; 2Sa 17:27-28; 1Ki 17:10-16

Stew Ge 25:29 See also 2Ki 4:38-41

Human flesh La 4:10 See also 2Ki 6:26-29

Cooked offerings

Lev 2:7 See also Lev 2:14; Lev 7:9; Lev 8:31; 2Ch 35:13; Eze 46:20,24

See also