8 And I am proceeding to go down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians+ and to bring them up out of that land to a land good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey,+ to the locality of the Caʹnaan·ites and the Hitʹtites and the Amʹor·ites and the Perʹiz·zites and the Hiʹvites and the Jebʹu·sites.+

24 Hence I said to YOU:+ “YOU, for YOUR part, will take possession of their ground, and I, for my part, shall give it to YOU to take possession of it, a land flowing with milk and honey.+ Jehovah YOUR God I am, who have divided YOU off from the peoples.”+

27 And they went on to report to him and say: “We entered into the land to which you sent us out, and it is indeed flowing with milk and honey,+ and this is its fruitage.+

4 But this very John had his clothing of camel’s hair+ and a leather girdle*+ around his loins; his food too was insect locusts+ and wild honey.+