Promised Land

The Promised Land (, translit.: ha'aretz hamuvtakhat; , translit.: ard al-mi'ad; also known as "The Land of Milk and Honey") is Middle Eastern land that Abrahamic religions claim their God promised and subsequently gave to Abraham and several more times to his descendants. It evokes the concepts of a homeland for the Jewish people and salvation and liberation in modern contexts. Abrahamic narrative The concept of the Promised Land originates from a religious narrative written in the Hebrew religious text the Torah. The Abrahamic God is claimed to have promised land to Abraham (the legendary patriarch of the Israelite tribes) in several verses of Genesis (the first book of the Torah), which a modern English Bible translates to: The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you." – The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring [or seed] I will give this land." – On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates – the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites." – -This verse is said to describe what are known as "borders of the Land" (Gevulot Ha-aretz). These allegedly divine promises given to Abraham happened prior to the birth of his son Isaac and were given to all his offspring signified through the rite of circumcision.