Numbers 16:14 meaning and explanation

Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”

Numbers 16:14, Berean Standard Bible

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These are the words of Dathan and Abiram, Reubenites who joined Korah's rebellion against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. Summoned by Moses, they refuse to come and instead accuse him of failing to bring them into a land flowing with milk and honey, a phrase elsewhere used of Canaan.

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