Milk and Honey - Dan Bellm

[Lawrence Robinson]

Milk and Honey

O dear God: the land You have promised us
already has people living in it. Why
didn't we hear that before the exodus?
So this is the choice, to live as slaves or die
as slaves to war? Now think: some other place
You haven't got? We sent out men to spy
for us, a sorry lot who claim a race
of giants lives up there—no doubt a lie,
more likely long-lost relatives. Hebron's
a town as old as Esau, walled with stones
they'll gladly throw at us, blood brothers or not.
Couldn't we come in peace, share what we've got
including You, settle down and call
it off? But No, You answer: You must dispossess them all.

Shelach-lecha, Numbers 12:1-15:41


	- Dan Bellm
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