Giving thanks to God before eating

5.19.1 Therefore the first food which one may come to should be received with thanks. The first morsel which he would take he should take with the words, "In the name of God, who gave me breath." The breath is nourished.

5.19.2 The breath being nourished, the eye is nourished. The eye being nourished, he is able to see the sun, the sign of God. Thus he is satisfied with offspring, with cattle, with food, with the glow of health, and with eminence in sacred knowledge.