Numbers 16:13

Amplified Bible

¹³Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land [of plenty] ^[a]flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness, but you would also lord it over us?

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Footnotes

Numbers 16:13 This phrase referred to the abundant fertility of the land. Milk (typically that of goats and sheep) was associated with abundance; “honey” referred mainly to syrups made from dates or grapes and was the epitome of sweetness. Bees’ honey was very rare and was considered the choicest of foods.

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