28 Bible Verses about Milk

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Deuteronomy 32:13-14

He enabled him to travel over the high terrain of the land, and he ate of the produce of the fields. He provided honey for him from the cliffs, and olive oil from the hardest of rocks, butter from the herd and milk from the flock, along with the fat of lambs, rams and goats of Bashan, along with the best of the kernels of wheat; and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.

Genesis 18:8

Abraham then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food before them. They ate while he was standing near them under a tree.

Judges 4:19

He said to her, "Give me a little water to drink, because I'm thirsty." She opened a goatskin container of milk and gave him some milk to drink. Then she covered him up again.

2 Samuel 17:29

honey, curds, flocks, and cheese. For they said, "The people are no doubt hungry, tired, and thirsty there in the desert."

Proverbs 27:27

And there will be enough goat's milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your servant girls.

Ezekiel 25:4

So take note, I am about to make you slaves of the tribes of the east. They will make camps among you and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

1 Corinthians 9:7

Who ever serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not consume its milk?

Deuteronomy 6:3

Pay attention, Israel, and be careful to do this so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in number -- as the Lord, God of your ancestors, said to you, you will have a land flowing with milk and honey.

Exodus 3:8

I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Leviticus 20:24

So I have said to you: You yourselves will possess their land and I myself will give it to you for a possession, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God who has set you apart from the other peoples.

Numbers 13:27

They told Moses, "We went to the land where you sent us. It is indeed flowing with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

Isaiah 7:22

From the abundance of milk they produce, he will have sour milk for his meals. Indeed, everyone left in the heart of the land will eat sour milk and honey.

Isaiah 60:16

You will drink the milk of nations; you will nurse at the breasts of kings. Then you will recognize that I, the Lord, am your deliverer, your protector, the powerful ruler of Jacob.

Ezekiel 20:6

On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

Joel 3:18

On that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the dry stream beds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple of the Lord, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees.

Exodus 23:19

The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the Lord your God. "You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

Exodus 34:26

"The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the Lord your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."

Deuteronomy 14:21

You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

Hebrews 5:12-13

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food. For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.

Proverbs 30:33

For as the churning of milk produces butter and as punching the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.

Genesis 49:12

His eyes will be dark from wine, and his teeth white from milk.

Job 10:10

Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

Lamentations 4:7

(Zayin) Her consecrated ones were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies more ruddy than corals, their hair like lapis lazuli.

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Bottles » Used for holding » Milk

Judges 4:19

He said to her, "Give me a little water to drink, because I'm thirsty." She opened a goatskin container of milk and gave him some milk to drink. Then she covered him up again.

Calves » Fed on » Milk

1 Samuel 6:10

So the men did as instructed. They took two cows that had calves and harnessed them to a cart; they also removed their calves to their stalls.

the Diet of the jews » Articles used for » Milk

Proverbs 27:27

And there will be enough goat's milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your servant girls.

Genesis 49:12

His eyes will be dark from wine, and his teeth white from milk.

Food » Articles of » Milk

Proverbs 27:27

And there will be enough goat's milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your servant girls.

Genesis 49:12

His eyes will be dark from wine, and his teeth white from milk.

Milk » Figuratite

Exodus 3:8

I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Exodus 3:17

and I have promised that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'

Jeremiah 11:5

Then I will keep the promise I swore on oath to your ancestors to give them a land flowing with milk and honey." That is the very land that you still live in today.'" And I responded, "Amen! Let it be so, Lord!"

Milk » Used for food

1 Corinthians 9:7

Who ever serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not consume its milk?

Judges 4:19

He said to her, "Give me a little water to drink, because I'm thirsty." She opened a goatskin container of milk and gave him some milk to drink. Then she covered him up again.

Song of Songs 5:1

The Lover to His Beloved: I have entered my garden, O my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my balsam spice. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk! The Poet to the Couple: Eat, friends, and drink! Drink freely, O lovers!

Genesis 18:8

Abraham then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food before them. They ate while he was standing near them under a tree.

Ezekiel 25:4

So take note, I am about to make you slaves of the tribes of the east. They will make camps among you and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

Milk » Illustrative of » First principles of God's word

Hebrews 5:12

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

Milk » Different kinds mentioned » Of cows

1 Samuel 6:7

So now go and make a new cart. Get two cows that have calves and that have never had a yoke placed on them. Harness the cows to the cart and take their calves from them back to their stalls.

Deuteronomy 32:14

butter from the herd and milk from the flock, along with the fat of lambs, rams and goats of Bashan, along with the best of the kernels of wheat; and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.

Milk » Flocks and herds fed for supply of

Proverbs 27:27

And there will be enough goat's milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your servant girls.

Milk » Used as food by the jews

Genesis 18:8

Abraham then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food before them. They ate while he was standing near them under a tree.

Judges 5:25

He asked for water, and she gave him milk; in a bowl fit for a king, she served him curds.

Milk » Canaan abounded with

Exodus 3:8

I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Exodus 3:17

and I have promised that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'

Milk » Illustrative of » Blessings of the gospel

Joel 3:18

On that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the dry stream beds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple of the Lord, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees.

Milk » Of sheep

Deuteronomy 32:14

butter from the herd and milk from the flock, along with the fat of lambs, rams and goats of Bashan, along with the best of the kernels of wheat; and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.

Isaiah 7:21-22

At that time a man will keep alive a young cow from the herd and a couple of goats. From the abundance of milk they produce, he will have sour milk for his meals. Indeed, everyone left in the heart of the land will eat sour milk and honey.

Milk » Illustrative of » Godly and edifying discourses

Song of Songs 4:11

Your lips drip sweetness like the honeycomb, my bride, honey and milk are under your tongue. The fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

Milk » Of cows

1 Samuel 6:7

So now go and make a new cart. Get two cows that have calves and that have never had a yoke placed on them. Harness the cows to the cart and take their calves from them back to their stalls.

Deuteronomy 32:14

butter from the herd and milk from the flock, along with the fat of lambs, rams and goats of Bashan, along with the best of the kernels of wheat; and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.

1 Samuel 6:10

So the men did as instructed. They took two cows that had calves and harnessed them to a cart; they also removed their calves to their stalls.

Milk » Illustrative of » Doctrines of the gospel

Song of Songs 5:1

The Lover to His Beloved: I have entered my garden, O my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my balsam spice. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk! The Poet to the Couple: Eat, friends, and drink! Drink freely, O lovers!

Milk » Kid (a baby goat) not to be seethed (boiled) in its own mother's

Deuteronomy 14:21

You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

Exodus 23:19

The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the Lord your God. "You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

Milk » Different kinds mentioned » Of sheep

Deuteronomy 32:14

butter from the herd and milk from the flock, along with the fat of lambs, rams and goats of Bashan, along with the best of the kernels of wheat; and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.

Milk » Different kinds mentioned » Of sea-monsters

Lamentations 4:3

(Gimel) Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are cruel, like ostriches in the desert.

Milk » An animal secretion, of a white color

Lamentations 4:7

(Zayin) Her consecrated ones were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies more ruddy than corals, their hair like lapis lazuli.

Milk » Different kinds mentioned » Of goats

Proverbs 27:27

And there will be enough goat's milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your servant girls.

Milk » Made into » Butter

Proverbs 30:33

For as the churning of milk produces butter and as punching the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.

Milk » Different kinds mentioned » Of camels

Genesis 32:15

thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

Milk » Illustrative of » Temporal blessings

Genesis 49:12

His eyes will be dark from wine, and his teeth white from milk.

Milk » Illustrative of » Wealth of the gentiles

Isaiah 60:16

You will drink the milk of nations; you will nurse at the breasts of kings. Then you will recognize that I, the Lord, am your deliverer, your protector, the powerful ruler of Jacob.

Milk » Young animals not to be seethed in that of the mother

Exodus 23:19

The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the Lord your God. "You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

Milk » Kept by the jews in bottles

Judges 4:19

He said to her, "Give me a little water to drink, because I'm thirsty." She opened a goatskin container of milk and gave him some milk to drink. Then she covered him up again.

Milk » Made into » Cheese

Job 10:10

Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

Milk » Churned

Proverbs 30:33

For as the churning of milk produces butter and as punching the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.

Milk » Of camels

Genesis 32:15

thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

Milk » Of goats

Proverbs 27:27

And there will be enough goat's milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your servant girls.

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Milk And Honey

Exodus 3:8

I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

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