I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the region of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

זבת חלב ודבש, a land with much livestock and abundant food of good quality and of nourishing properties (honey). These terms are used in this sense in Proverbs 24,13 אכול בני דבש כי טוב ונפת מתוק. “My son, eat honey for it is good, and the honeycomb for it is sweet on your palate.”

Rabbi Ovadiah Sforno was a 16th-century Italian rabbi and physician. This text is his commentary on Exodus 3:8:2.

(20) When I bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey that I promised on oath to their ancestors, and they eat their fill and grow fat and turn to other gods and serve them, spurning Me and breaking My covenant,

(16) If you find honey, eat only what you need, Lest, surfeiting yourself, you throw it up.

[The Torah is] more desirable than gold, than much fine gold; sweeter than honey

Concerning that which the verse says, "Your ointments have a good fragrance", the Rabbis said that the Torah is compared with five things: Water, wine, honey, milk and oil...Where do we see it compared to honey and milk? "Honey and milk under your tongue" [i.e. this alludes to Torah].