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that the Lord promised your ancestors and their descendants. It's rich with milk and honey, and you will live there and enjoy it for a long time. 10 It's better land than you had in Egypt, where you had to struggle just to water your crops.[a] 11 But the hills and valleys in the promised land are watered by rain from heaven,[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 11.10 where … crops: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 11.10,11 to water your crops … rain from heaven: Egypt was flat and had very little rain. All water for crops had to come from the Nile River.

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