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milk

Milk appears in patriarchal hospitality; Israel must not boil a kid in its mother's milk, a command restated in the Sinai covenant. After the calf Yahweh still sends Israel toward a country flowing with milk and honey.

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First mention

Genesis 18:8

Tags

3

Genesis 18, 49Exodus 3, 13, 23, 33-34Provision

Scripture references

  • Genesis 18:8

    Then fetching curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared, he put these before them and they ate while he remained standing near them under the tree.

  • Genesis 49:12

    His eyes are darkened with wine and his teeth are white with milk.

  • Exodus 3:8

    And I have come down to rescue them from the clutches of the Egyptians and bring them up out of that country, to a country rich and broad, to a country flowing with milk and honey, to the home of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.

  • Exodus 13:5

    and when Yahweh has brought you into the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, flowing with milk and honey, which he swore to your ancestors that he would give you, then you must observe this rite in the same month.

  • Exodus 23:19

    'You will bring the best of the first-fruits of your soil to the house of Yahweh your God. 'You will not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

  • Exodus 33:3

    Move on towards a country flowing with milk and honey, but I myself shall not be going with you or I might annihilate you on the way, for you are an obstinate people.'

  • Exodus 34:26

    'You will bring the best of the first-fruits of your soil to the house of Yahweh your God. 'You will not boil a kid in its mother's milk.'