Cheese

Cheese traveled better than fresh milk and packed easily, which made it a practical gift for soldiers in the field — exactly what Jesse sent with David to check on his brothers at the front line. Job later reached for the image of curdling milk into cheese to describe how carefully God had formed him before birth.

• “And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.”

  1 Samuel 17:18

• “Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?”

  Job 10:10

The careful, deliberate shaping of a life in the womb — ‘hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?’ (Job 10:10).

• Milk

  48 verses

• Butter (curds)

  10 verses

• Eggs

  7 verses

• Black cumin (KJV 'fitches')

  3 verses