Deuteronomy 11:10

New American Bible - revised edition

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, as in a vegetable garden.

Cross References

Isaiah 19:10

The spinners shall be crushed, all the hired laborers shall be despondent.

Isaiah 37:25

I myself dug wells and drank foreign water; Drying up all the rivers of Egypt beneath the soles of my feet.’

Jeremiah 2:7

I brought you into the garden land to eat its fine fruits, But you entered and defiled my land, you turned my heritage into an abomination.

Zechariah 14:18

And if the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, upon them will fall the plague, with which the Lord strikes the nations that do not go up to celebrate the feast of Booths.

Deuteronomy 11:11

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,

Deuteronomy 11:9

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.

Deuteronomy 8:7

For the Lord, your God, is bringing you into a good country, a land with streams of water, with springs and fountains welling up in the hills and valleys,