⁶ He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.

³⁰ But if I give praise to God for the food which I take, let no man say evil of me for that reason.

³¹ So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

³ Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

⁴ Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:

⁵ For it is made holy by the word of God and by prayer.

³⁶ And he took the seven cakes of bread and the fishes; and having given praise, he gave the broken bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.

¹⁹ And he gave orders for the people to be seated on the grass; and he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing, and made division of the food, and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.

¹⁰ You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.

⁵ Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?

⁶ And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?

⁵ Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?

²⁵ And Moses said, Make your meal today of what you have, for this day is a Sabbath to the Lord: today you will not get any in the fields.

⁴² It is a watch-night before the Lord who took them out of the land of Egypt: this same night is a watch-night to the Lord for all the children of Israel, through all their generations.

¹⁴ And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever.

²⁸ Then they said to him, How may we do the works of God?