Exodus 3:17

New American Bible - revised edition

so I have decided to lead you up out of your affliction in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Cross References

Genesis 46:4

I will go down to Egypt with you and I will also bring you back here, after Joseph has closed your eyes.

Genesis 50:24

Joseph said to his brothers: “I am about to die. God will surely take care of you and lead you up from this land to the land that he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”

Genesis 50:25

Then, putting the sons of Israel under oath, he continued, “When God thus takes care of you, you must bring my bones up from this place.”

1 Chronicles 1:15

the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

Psalm 102:21

To attend to the groaning of the prisoners, to release those doomed to die.”

Exodus 13:5

Therefore, when the Lord, your God, has brought you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perrizites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you will perform the following service in this month.

Exodus 32:34

Now, go and lead the people where I have told you. See, my angel will go before you. When it is time for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.

Exodus 33:3

to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I myself will not go up in your company, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise I might consume you on the way.

Exodus 6:6

Therefore, say to the Israelites: I am the Lord. I will free you from the burdens of the Egyptians and will deliver you from their slavery. I will redeem you by my outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.

Jeremiah 11:5

Thus I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, the one you have today. “Amen, Lord,” I answered.

Jeremiah 32:22

And you gave them this land, as you had sworn to their ancestors to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Ezekiel 20:6

That day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to the land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, a jewel among all lands.

Leviticus 20:24

But to you I have said: You shall take possession of their land. I am giving it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I, the Lord, am your God, who have set you apart from other peoples.

Numbers 13:27

They told Moses: “We came to the land to which you sent us. It does indeed flow with milk and honey, and here is its fruit.

Deuteronomy 26:9

and brought us to this place, and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 6:3

Hear then, Israel, and be careful to observe them, that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly; for the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you a land flowing with milk and honey. The Great Commandment.

Joshua 24:11

Once you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho, the citizens of Jericho fought against you, but I delivered them also into your power.

Joshua 5:6

Now the Israelites wandered forty years in the wilderness, until all the warriors among the people that came forth from Egypt died off because they had not listened to the voice of the Lord. For the Lord swore that he would not let them see the land he had sworn to their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Joshua 9:1

When the news reached all the kings west of the Jordan, in the mountain regions and in the Shephelah, and all along the coast of the Great Sea as far as the Lebanon: Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites,