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These words tell a tale; both mean food in general. The Italians and Asiatics eat little animal food, and with them the wordbread stands for food; so also with the poor, whose chief diet it is; but the English consume meat very plentifully, and this word, which simply means food, almost exclusively implies animal food. In the banquet given to Joseph's brethren, the viceroy commanded the servants “to set on bread” (Genesis xliii. 3l). In Psalm civ. 27 it is said “of fishes, creeping things, and crocodiles, that God giveth them their meat in due season.”
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