Madhu Kanda. Adhyaya 1, Brahmana 4. In the beginning, the Self: I am Brahman
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Each mantra is given four ways: the Sanskrit in its Devanagari script, the same sounds in Roman letters, an English translation set in our own voice, and then the line once more in plain words, for a first and unhurried reading.
Not every passage is opened to the same depth. A few central mantras carry the full cross-school commentary, where the schools are set side by side. The rest are kept here whole and faithful, set in their place but not expounded, so the book stays entire and nothing is dropped for being thought minor.
Where the schools read a line differently, the difference is kept open. None is crowned and none is corrected. Each is met on its own terms, and where they contradict, the contradiction is left standing for you to sit with.
Food and the eater of food
Then he rubbed thus, and from his mouth, as from a womb, and from his hands he produced fire. Therefore both of these are hairless within, for the womb is hairless within. So when they say, "Sacrifice to this god, sacrifice to that god," each god is but his manifestation, for he indeed is all the gods. Now whatever is moist he created from his seed, and that is Soma. This whole world is just this much: food and the eater of food. Soma is food, and fire is the eater of food. This is the higher creation of Brahma, in that he created the gods, who are better than he, and in that, being mortal, he created the immortals. Therefore it is the higher creation. He who knows this comes to be in this higher creation of his.
He rubbed his hands, and from his mouth (as from a womb) and from his hands he brought forth fire; this is why the inside of the mouth and of the palms is hairless, like the inside of the womb. So when people say "sacrifice to this god or that god," each deity is just a projection of him, since he alone is all the gods. From his seed he produced everything moist, which is Soma. The whole universe comes down to just two things: food and the eater of food; Soma is the food, fire is the eater. This is Brahma's higher creation (atisrsti): being mortal himself, he created the gods who surpass him, the immortals. Whoever knows this comes to share in that higher creation.