⁸ “You shall therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may ^(A)be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess, ⁹ and ^(B)that you may live long in the land ^(C)that the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, ^(D)a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁰ For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it,^[a] like a garden of vegetables.