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Moses and Joshua in the Tabernacle, James Tissot

Exodus 3:8

James Tissot, Moses and Joshua in the Tabernacle, c. 1896–1902 · Jewish Museum, New York · Public domainJames Tissot, Moses and Joshua in the Tabernacle, c. 1896–1902, Jewish Museum, New York

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Exodus 3:8 (WEB)

I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Catechism · 2

Sin

  • §1867Article 8 · SinRead at vatican.va

    “The catechetical tradition also recalls that there are "sins that cry to heaven": the blood of Abel, The sin of the Sodomites, The cry of the people oppressed in Egypt,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Ex 3:7-10.

In the Old Testament

  • §2575Article 1 · In the Old TestamentRead at vatican.va

    “From the midst of the burning bush he calls Moses.” — Catechism footnote: Ex 3:1-10.

Fathers and councils · 9

Origen

  • “…introduces God as promising to those who lived according to His law the holy land, which is “a good land and a large, a land flowing with milk and honey;” which promise is not to be understood to refer, as some suppose, to that part of the earth which we call Judea; for it, however good it may be, still forms…” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 8.

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Irenaeus of Lyons

Tertullian

  • “…the second people (which is composed of us nations, lingering deserted in the world aforetime) into the land of promise, “flowing with milk and honey” (that is, into the possession of eternal life, than which nought is sweeter); and this had to come about, not through Moses (that is, not through the Law’s…” — editor's note: See Ex. iii. 8, and the references there.

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  • “…of Egyptian servitude “by the mighty hand and sublime arm” of God, they were seen to be its lord, destined to the “land flowing with milk and honey;” but forthwith, stumbled at the surrounding spectacle of an incopious desert sighing after the lost enjoyments of Egyptian satiety, they murmured against Moses…” — editor's note: See Ex. iii. 8.

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  • “…down new wine,” but not as if one might expect “must” from the stones, or its decoction from the rocks; and also hear of “a land flowing with milk and honey,” but not as if you were to suppose that you would ever gather Samian cakes from the ground; nor does God, forsooth, offer His services as a water-bailiff or a…” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 8, 17; Deut. xxvi. 9, 15.

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Augustine of Hippo

Clement of Alexandria

Cross-references · 22

Parallel passages

  • Exodus 3:8 and Deuteronomy 20:17 share the same wording (12 words).

  • Exodus 3:8 and Joshua 9:1 share the same wording (12 words).

  • Exodus 3:8 and Joshua 12:8 share the same wording (11 words).

  • Exodus 3:8 and Joshua 24:11 share the same wording (14 words).

  • Exodus 3:8 and Nehemiah 9:8 share the same wording (10 words).

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  • Acts 7:34 takes up the words of Exodus 3:8 (7 words in common).

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