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Bread appears in hospitality meals and wilderness provision; in Exodus 16 Yahweh rains bread from heaven as Israel's daily manna ration. At Aaron's investiture a loaf, an oiled cake, and a wafer from the basket of unleavened bread are placed on the priests' palms and waved before Yahweh.

Scripture references

Genesis 14:18
Melchizedek king of Salem brought bread and wine...
Genesis 18:5
Let me fetch a little bread and you can refresh yourselves...
Genesis 19:3
He prepared a meal for them, baking unleavened bread...
Genesis 25:34
Then Jacob gave him some bread and lentil stew;
Genesis 27:17
She then handed the special dish and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.
Genesis 31:46
They had a meal there, on the cairn, and
Genesis 40:17
In the top tray there were all kinds of pastries for Pharaoh, such as a baker might make, and the birds were eating them off the tray on my head.'
Genesis 45:23
And to his father he sent ten donkeys laden with the best that Egypt offered, and ten she-donkeys laden with grain, bread and food for his father's journey.
Exodus 16:4
Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Look, I shall rain down bread for you from the heavens. Each day the people must go out and collect their ration for the day; I propose to test them in this way to see whether they will follow my law or not.
Exodus 16:15
As soon as the Israelites saw this, they said to one another, 'What is that ?' not knowing what it was. 'That', Moses told them, 'is the food which Yahweh has given you to eat.
Exodus 16:32
Moses then said, 'These are Yahweh's orders: Fill a homer with it and preserve it for your descendants, so that they can see the bread on which I fed you in the desert when I brought you out of Egypt.'
Exodus 29:23
and a loaf of bread, a cake of bread made with oil, and a wafer, from the basket of unleavened bread before Yahweh,