diff --git a/website/content/docs/configure.mdx b/website/content/docs/configure.mdx
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--- a/website/content/docs/configure.mdx
+++ b/website/content/docs/configure.mdx
@@ -80,8 +80,9 @@ each can be found below:
   [Packer's home directory](#packer-s-home-directory) for more.
 
 - `PACKER_GITHUB_API_TOKEN` - When using Packer init on HCL2 templates, Packer
-  queries the public API from GitHub which limits the amount of queries on can
-  set the `PACKER_GITHUB_API_TOKEN` with a GitHub Token to make it higher.
+  queries the public API from GitHub which has rate-limits on its APIs.
+  You can set the `PACKER_GITHUB_API_TOKEN` environment variable
+  with a GitHub Token to make it higher.
 
 - `PACKER_LOG` - Setting this to any value other than "" (empty string) or
   "0" will enable the logger. See the [debugging