Deuteronomy 11:9-11
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
9 and that you may have long life on the land which the Lord swore to your ancestors he would give to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. 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,
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- 11:10 By hand: lit., “by foot,” probably referring to a kind of mechanism for irrigation from the Nile.
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