I will provide pasture<n id="1" /> for your livestock and you will eat your fill.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">It will produce thorns and thistles for you,p> <p class="poetry">but you will eat the grain<n id="1" /> of the field.p>

Also you must offer fellowship offerings and eat them there, rejoicing before the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

You will eat your fill and then praise the <sc>Lordsc> your God because of the good land he has given you.p>

You must cook<n id="1" /> and eat it in the place the <sc>Lordsc> your God chooses; you may return the next morning to your tents.

When you enter the vineyard of your neighbor you may eat as many grapes as you please,<n id="1" /> but you must not take away any in a container.<n id="2" />

Be careful<n id="1" /> not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when<n id="2" /> they prostitute themselves<n id="3" /> to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you,<n id="4" /> you will eat from his sacrifice;

You will then eat your own offspring,<n id="1" /> the flesh of the sons and daughters the <sc>Lordsc> your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege<n id="2" /> by which your enemies will constrict you.

houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant &#8211; and you eat your fill,

<t /><p class="bodytext">You must destroy<n id="1" /> all the people whom the <sc>Lordsc> your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship<n id="2" /> their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

<t /><p class="bodytext">On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the <sc>Lordsc> your God blesses you<n id="1" /> in all your villages.<n id="2" /> Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

If the place he<n id="1" /> chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he<n id="2" /> has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages<n id="3" /> just as you wish.

In the presence of the <sc>Lordsc> your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine,<n id="1" /> your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the <sc>Lordsc> your God always.

Then 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 <sc>Lordsc> your God and enjoy it.

However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city &#8211; all its plunder &#8211; you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the <sc>Lordsc> your God has given you.

<p class="bodytext">Later during the mealtime Boaz said to her, &#8220;Come here and have<n id="1" /> some food! Dip your bread<n id="2" /> in the vinegar!&#8221; So she sat down beside the harvesters. Then he handed<n id="3" /> her some roasted grain. She ate until she was full and saved the rest.<n id="4" />