Numbers 16:11-13

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¹¹Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against the Lord; but as for Aaron, who is he that you murmur against him?”

¹²Then Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; but they said [defiantly], “We will not come up. 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.