Leviticus 20:24 (DRB)

Passage

But to you I say: Possess their land which I will give you for an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from other people.

Nearby Context

Leviticus 20:22 Keep my laws and my judgments, and do them: lest the land into which you are to enter to dwell therein, vomit you also out.

Leviticus 20:23 Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out before you. For they have done all these things: and therefore I abhorred them.

Leviticus 20:24 But to you I say: Possess their land which I will give you for an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from other people.

Leviticus 20:25 Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean. Defile not your souls with beasts, or birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn you to be unclean:

Leviticus 20:26 You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy: and I have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "possess", "land", "give", "inheritance", "flowing", "milk", and "honey". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "possess" and "land", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 23's "Walk not after the laws of the..." into verse 25's "Therefore do you also separate the clean...", so "possess" and "land" belong inside that flow. In Leviticus context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "possess" and "land" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.