⁸ “And you must keep all of the commandments^[a] that I am commanding you today,^[b] so that you may have strength and you may go and you may take possession of that land to which you are crossing^[c] to take possession of it, ⁹ so that you may live long^[d] on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors,^[e] to give it to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁰ For the fact is that the land that you are about to go into^[f] to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come out of,^[g] where you sow your seed and you give water by your foot, as in a vegetable garden.^{[h] 11} But the land that you are about to cross into to take possession of it is a land of hills and valleys, and by the rain of the heaven it drinks water, ¹² a land that Yahweh your God is caring for it; continually the eyes of Yahweh your God are on it, from the beginning of the year up to the end of the year.