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What the Bible Says About Milk

Overview

The Bible addresses milk across 40 verses, drawn from both the Old and New Testaments. These passages cluster most in Exodus, Deuteronomy and Isaiah. Closely related themes include Sheep, Ox, the, Wine and Agriculture or Husbandry.

Key Bible verses about milk

Old Testament

Exodus

Exodus 3:8

And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Exodus 3:17

And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

Exodus 13:5

And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

Exodus 23:19

The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Exodus 33:3

Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 14:21

Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Deuteronomy 26:9

And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 26:15

Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 32:14

Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

New Testament

In the Bible dictionary

Studying milk for yourself

  • Begin with Genesis 18:8, then read the passages below in canonical order.
  • Compare how Exodus, Deuteronomy and Isaiah each treat the theme.
  • Widen the study to related themes: Sheep, Ox, the, Wine and Agriculture or Husbandry.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Bible say about milk?

The Bible addresses milk across 40 verses, drawn from both the Old and New Testaments. These passages cluster most in Exodus, Deuteronomy and Isaiah. Closely related themes include Sheep, Ox, the, Wine and Agriculture or Husbandry.

How many Bible verses are about milk?

The Bible references milk in 40 verses (King James Version).

Where does the Bible first mention milk?

In canonical order, the first of these passages is Genesis 18:8: “And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.”

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