SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:8
Y he descendido para librarlos de mano de los egipcios; yo los sacaré de aquella tierra a una tierra buena y ancha, a tierra que fluye leche y miel, a los lugares del cananeo, del heteo, del amorreo, del ferezeo, del heveo, y del jebuseo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Exodus 3:8
Verse 8. And I am come down to deliver them] This is the very purpose for which I am now come down upon this mountain, and for which I manifest myself to thee. Large-land] Canaan, when compared with the small tract of Goshen, in which they were now situated, and where, we learn, from chap. i. 7, they were straitened for room, might be well called a large land. See a fine description of this land Deut. viii. 7.
A land flowing with milk and honey] Excellent for pasturage, because abounding in the most wholesome herbage and flowers; and from the latter an abundance of wild honey was collected by the bees. Though cultivation is now almost entirely neglected in this land, because of the badness of the government and the scantiness of the inhabitants, yet it is still good for pasturage, and yields an abundance of honey. The terms used in the text to express the fertility of this land, are commonly used by ancient authors on similar subjects. It is a metaphor taken from a breast producing copious streams of milk. Homer calls Argos ouqar arourhv, the breast of the country, as affording streams of milk and honey, Il. ix., ver. 141. So Virgil: Prima tulit tellus, eadem vos ubere laeto Accipiet.AEn., lib. iii., ver. 95.
"The land that first produced you shall receive you again into its joyous bosom." The poets feign that Bacchus, the fable of whom they have taken from the history of Moses, produced rivers of milk and honey, of water and wine: - Æpei de galakti pedon, Æpei dÆ oinw, pei de melissan nektari.EURIP. Bacch., epod., ver. 8.
"The land flows with milk; it flows also with wine; it flows also with the nectar of bees, (honey.)" This seems to be a mere poetical copy from the Pentateuch, where the sameness of the metaphor and the correspondence of the descriptions are obvious.Place of the Canaanites, &c.] See Gen. xv. 18, &c.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-10 - God notices the afflictions of Israel. Their sorrows; even the secre sorrows of God's people are known to him. Their cry; God hears the cries of his afflicted people. The oppression they endured; the highes and greatest of their oppressors are not above him. God promises speed deliverance by methods out of the common ways of providence. Those who God, by his grace, delivers out of a spiritual Egypt, he will bring to a heavenly Canaan. (Ex 3:11-15)
Original Hebrew
וארד 3381 להצילו 5337 מיד 3027 מצרים 4713 ולהעלתו 5927 מן 4480 הארץ 776 ההוא 1931 אל 413 ארץ 776 טובה 2896 ורחבה 7342 אל 413 ארץ 776 זבת 2100 חלב 2461 ודבשׁ 1706 אל 413 מקום 4725 הכנעני 3669 והחתי 2850 והאמרי 567 והפרזי 6522 והחוי 2340 והיבוסי׃ 2983
