What does the Bible say about oven?

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The Bible presents ovens as ordinary household tools that also become vivid images of provision, corruption, judgment, and God’s refining holiness. In Exodus 8:3, frogs invade even Israel’s ovens, displaying the reach of God’s plague against Egypt. Leviticus 2:4 and 7:9 regulate grain offerings baked in an oven, teaching that daily labor and food belong to the Lord. Leviticus 11:35 shows the concern for ceremonial cleanness in domestic life, while Leviticus 26:26 warns that covenant rebellion can bring scarcity even where bread is baked. The prophets liken sinful passions to a heated oven in Hosea 7:4-7, and Psalm 21:9 and Malachi 4:1 portray God’s final judgment as consuming fire against the unrepentant.

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