Holy Scripture

Deuteronomy 11:10

A church father on this verse
“Now Sacred Scripture is generous in that God conveys His influence to it, producing the most abundant multiplications. Hence, in Deuteronomy: "The land which you are to enter and occupy is not like the land of Egypt," which is irrigated, but "a land... that drinks in rain from the heavens." For it is not like the othe…”
Bonaventure, 13th c. — Collations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 14

Source: Septuagint

Original

10For the land into which thou goest to inherit it, is not as the land of Egypt, whence ye came out, whensoever they sow the seed, and water it with their feet, as a garden of herbs:

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8And ye shall keep all his commandments, as many as I command thee today, that ye may live, and be multiplied, and that ye may go in and inherit the land, into which ye go across Jordan to inherit it:

9that ye may live long upon the land, which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them, and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

— Deuteronomy 11:10 —

11but the land into which thou goest to inherit it, is a land of mountains and plains; it shall drink water of the rain of heaven.

12A land which the Lord thy God surveys continually, the eyes of the Lord thy God are upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

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