“You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today, (A)so that you may be strong and go in and take possession of the land into which you are about to cross to possess it; and (B)so that you may prolong your days on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their [a]descendants, (C)a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 For the land, into which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you used to sow your seed and water it [b]by your foot like a vegetable garden.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 11:9 Lit seed
  2. Deuteronomy 11:10 I.e., use of foot to facilitate irrigation

Observe therefore all the commands(A) I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,(B) and so that you may live long(C) in the land the Lord swore(D) to your ancestors to give to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.(E) 10 The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt,(F) from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden.

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