From Jewish
mythology, also important to most variants of
Judaism,
Christianity and
Islam. Specifically from the
book of Joshua,
chapter 5 verse 6, of the
King James version of the Bible, a
translation attributed to
William Tyndale referring to the
promised land.
The full quote is:
"For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war , which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not shew them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey."