Leviticus 20:24

But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an inheritance—a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — God speaks to Israel through Moses during the wilderness period, immediately after prohibiting Canaanite statutes and before detailing clean and unclean animals. This declaration establishes the theological basis for the nation's impending territorial inheritance.

The words — תִּֽירְשׁ֣וּ (ti.re.Shu) means you will take possession of, and אַדְמָתָ/ם ('ad.ma.Ta/m) translates to their ground. These terms frame the inheritance as a granted allotment rather than a human conquest.

The thread — The promise of a divinely granted land appears in Exodus 3:8 and Exodus 3:17, where God pledges to bring Israel to a good and spacious territory. Deuteronomy 14:2 reinforces the reason for this allotment by identifying Israel as a holy people chosen as the LORD's prized possession.

Why it lands — The text demands that readers accept their identity as set apart and rely on God's provision instead of adopting surrounding cultural practices. It requires immediate obedience to separation commands grounded in the certainty of divine fulfillment.

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The Hebrew words

King James Version

But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people.

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 14:2 for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
Exodus 3:8 I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Exodus 3:17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
Exodus 6:8 And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!’”
Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
Exodus 33:16 For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
Leviticus 20:26 You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.
1 Kings 8:53 For You, O Lord GOD, have set them apart from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Your servant Moses when You brought our fathers out of Egypt.”
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Exodus 13:5 And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.