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25 Then, taking along some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, “The land the Lord, our God, is giving us is good.”

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25 Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported,(A) “It is a good land(B) that the Lord our God is giving us.”(C)

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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.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:10 By hand: lit., “by foot,” probably referring to a kind of mechanism for irrigation from the Nile.

10 The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt,(A) from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden. 11 But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys(B) that drinks rain from heaven.(C) 12 It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes(D) of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.

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13 (A)He had them mount the summits of the land,[a]
    fed them the produce of its fields;
He suckled them with honey from the crags
    and olive oil from the flinty rock;
14 Butter from cows and milk from sheep,
    with the best of lambs;
Bashan[b] bulls and goats,
    with the cream of finest wheat;
    and the foaming blood of grapes you drank.

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Footnotes

  1. 32:13 The land: Canaan.
  2. 32:14 Bashan: a fertile grazing land east of the Jordan, famous for its sleek, strong cattle. Cf. Ps 22:13; Ez 39:18; Am 4:1.

13 He made him ride on the heights(A) of the land
    and fed him with the fruit of the fields.
He nourished him with honey from the rock,(B)
    and with oil(C) from the flinty crag,
14 with curds and milk from herd and flock
    and with fattened lambs and goats,
with choice rams of Bashan(D)
    and the finest kernels of wheat.(E)
You drank the foaming blood of the grape.(F)

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28 Israel abides securely,
    Jacob dwells apart,
In a land of grain and wine,
    where the heavens drip with dew.(A)

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28 So Israel will live in safety;(A)
    Jacob will dwell[a] secure
in a land of grain and new wine,
    where the heavens drop dew.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 33:28 Septuagint; Hebrew Jacob’s spring is