Numbers 16:13 meaning and explanation

Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?

Numbers 16:13, Berean Standard Bible

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These are the words of Dathan and Abiram, Reubenites who refused Moses' summons to appear before him. Their complaint drips with bitter irony: they call Egypt, the land of slavery, a land flowing with milk and honey, the very phrase God used to describe Canaan.

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