⁸ Therefore I have come down^[a] to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them up from that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.^(A)

²⁷ They told Moses: “We came to the land to which you sent us. It does indeed flow with milk and honey, and here is its fruit.

Cautions About Prosperity. ^7 (A)For the Lord, your God, is bringing you into a good country, a land with streams of water, with springs and fountains welling up in the hills and valleys, ⁸ a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, of olive trees and of honey, ⁹ a land where you will always have bread and where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones contain iron and in whose hills you can mine copper.

¹⁰ The land you are to enter and possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you would sow your seed and then water it by hand,^[a] as in a vegetable garden. ^11 (A)No, the land into which you are crossing to take possession is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in rain from the heavens, ¹² a land which the Lord, your God, looks after; the eyes of the Lord, your God, are upon it continually through the year, from beginning to end.