Deuteronomy 2:6

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You may purchase food to eat and water to drink from them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 20:19 : 19 Then the Israelites said to him,“We will go along the highway, and if we or our cattle drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We will only pass through on our feet, without doing anything else.”
  • Deut 2:28-29 : 28 Sell me food for cash so that I can eat and sell me water to drink. Just allow me to go through on foot, 29 just as the descendants of Esau who live at Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land the LORD our God is giving us.”
  • Matt 7:12 : 12 In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets.
  • Rom 12:17 : 17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil; consider what is good before all people.
  • 2 Thess 3:7-8 : 7 For you know yourselves how you must imitate us, because we did not behave without discipline among you, 8 and we did not eat anyone’s food without paying. Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked night and day in order not to burden any of you.

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    27“Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the roadway. I will not turn aside to the right or the left.

    28Sell me food for cash so that I can eat and sell me water to drink. Just allow me to go through on foot,

    29just as the descendants of Esau who live at Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land the LORD our God is giving us.”

  • Deut 14:25-26
    2 verses
    74%

    25you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, and travel to the place the LORD your God chooses for himself.

    26Then you may spend the money however you wish for cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and enjoy it.

  • Ezra 7:17
    73%

    17With this money you should be sure to purchase bulls, rams, and lambs, along with the appropriate meal offerings and libations. You should bring them to the altar of the temple of your God which is in Jerusalem.

  • Isa 55:1-2
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    1The Lord Gives an Invitation“Hey, all who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come! Buy and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

    2Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food!

  • Deut 8:9
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    9a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.

  • Zech 7:6
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    6And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?’”

  • Deut 2:7
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    7All along the way I, the LORD your God, have blessed your every effort. I have been attentive to your travels through this great wilderness. These forty years I have been with you; you have lacked for nothing.’”

  • Ezek 4:10-11
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    71%

    10The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times.

    11And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times.

  • Num 20:19
    71%

    19Then the Israelites said to him,“We will go along the highway, and if we or our cattle drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We will only pass through on our feet, without doing anything else.”

  • Deut 2:4-5
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    4Instruct these people as follows:‘You are about to cross the border of your relatives the descendants of Esau, who inhabit Seir. They will be afraid of you, so watch yourselves carefully.

    5Do not be hostile toward them, because I am not giving you any of their land, not even a footprint, for I have given Mount Seir as an inheritance for Esau.

  • Deut 29:6
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    6You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer– all so that you might know that I am the LORD your God!

  • Deut 12:16
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    16However, you must not eat blood– pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Amos 8:6
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    6We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!”

  • Lam 5:4
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    4We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.

  • Job 22:7
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    7You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.

  • Neh 9:15
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    15You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

  • Exod 17:6
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    6I will be standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in plain view of the elders of Israel.

  • Deut 8:7
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  • Deut 12:24
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    24You must not eat it! You must pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Lev 25:6-7
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    6You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat– you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,

    7your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land– all its produce will be for you to eat.

  • Deut 14:21
    69%

    21You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  • Josh 24:13
    69%

    13I gave you a land in which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’

  • Exod 12:44
    69%

    44But everyone’s servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may eat it.

  • Lev 25:14-15
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    14If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.

    15You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left.

  • Deut 6:11
    69%

    11houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant– and you eat your fill,

  • 1 Kgs 13:22
    69%

    22You went back. You ate food. And you drank water in the place of which he had said to you,“Eat no food. Drink no water.” Therefore your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’”

  • Deut 12:20
    68%

    20The Sanctity of Blood When the LORD your God extends your borders as he said he would do and you say,“I want to eat meat just as I please,” you may do so as you wish.

  • Ps 44:12
    68%

    12You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them.

  • Deut 12:7
    68%

    7Both you and your families must feast there before the LORD your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.

  • Deut 8:3
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  • Num 20:17
    68%

    17Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well. We will go by the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or the left until we have passed through your region.’”

  • Deut 8:16
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    16fed you in the wilderness with manna(which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.

  • Deut 32:14
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    14butter from the herd and milk from the flock, along with the fat of lambs, rams and goats of Bashan, along with the best of the kernels of wheat; and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.

  • 2 Kgs 3:17
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    17for this is what the LORD has said,‘You will not feel any wind or see any rain, but this valley will be full of water and you and your cattle and animals will drink.’

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    2When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them,“Return, buy us a little more food.”

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    5So Israel’s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.

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    9and that you may enjoy long life in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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