Num 16:13-14 | TNotes | STEP | 16:13 land flowing with milk and honey: This sarcastic allusion to the spies’ earlier description of Canaan (13:27 ) is a deliberate distortion of life in Egypt (see study note on 11:4-15).

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‏ Numbers 16:13-14

16:13 ^a land flowing with milk and honey: This sarcastic allusion to the spies’ earlier description of Canaan (13:27 ^b) is a deliberate distortion of life in Egypt (see study note on 11:4-15).
16:14 ^c The Israelites were heading away from their new homeland precisely because they had rebelled against Moses, who had done all he could to take them to that land (chs 13–14 ^d).

• Are you trying to fool these men? They were accusing Moses and Aaron of trying to mislead the Israelites (to “pull the wool over their eyes”).