Possessing a Fertile Land

⁸ “Keep all the commands that I’m giving^[a] you today, so you can be strong enough to enter and possess the land that you are crossing over to inherit ⁹ and so you’ll live long in the land that the Lord your God promised by an oath to give your ancestors and their descendants—a land flowing with milk and honey, ¹⁰ since the land that you are about to enter to inherit isn’t like the land of Egypt that you just left, where you plant a seed and irrigate it with your feet like a vegetable garden. ¹¹ Instead, the land that you are crossing over to inherit is a land of hills and valleys that drinks water supplied by rain from heaven, ¹² a land about which the Lord your God is always concerned, because the eyes of the Lord are continuously on it throughout the entire year.”^[b]