“Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?”
Isn't it enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? And now you also want to lord it over us?' — the Reubenites' accusation inverts the Exodus narrative: Egypt becomes 'a land flowing with milk and honey' (the promised land's description), while the wilderness becomes a place of death. Their complaint focuses on Moses' leadership style ('lord it over us'), not priesthood.
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