What does the Bible say about milk?

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• 1 Peter 2:2

  as newborn babes, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,

• 1 Corinthians 3:2

  I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

• Hebrews 5:12

  For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

• Hebrews 5:13

  For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

• Proverbs 27:27

  There will be plenty of goats' milk for your food, For your family's food, And for the nourishment of your servant girls.

• Genesis 18:8

  He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

• Jeremiah 11:5

  that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said, Amen, Yahweh.

• 1 Corinthians 9:7

  What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

• Judges 4:19

  He said to her, Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.

• Proverbs 30:33

  For as the churning of milk brings forth butter, And the wringing of the nose brings forth blood; So the forcing of wrath brings forth strife."

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