Deuteronomy 11:10
Good News Translation
The land that you are about to occupy is not like the land of Egypt, where you lived before. There, when you planted grain, you had to work hard to irrigate the fields;

New Revised Standard Version
For the land that you are about to enter to occupy is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sow your seed and irrigate by foot like a vegetable garden.

Contemporary English Version
It's better land than you had in Egypt, where you had to struggle just to water your crops.

New American Bible
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the land, which thou goest to possess, is not like the land of Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when the seed is sown, waters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens.

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For the land, which thou goest to possess, is not like the land of Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when the seed is sown, waters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens.

wateredst it with thy foot.

Zechariah 14:18 And if the family of Egypt go not up nor come: neither shall it be upon them, but there shall be destruction wherewith the Lord will strike all nations that will not go up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

Context
God's Great Blessings
9And may live in it a long time: which the Lord promised by oath to your fathers, and to their seed, a land which floweth with milk and honey. 10For the land, which thou goest to possess, is not like the land of Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when the seed is sown, waters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens.11But it is a land of hills and plains, expecting rain from heaven.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:9
And may live in it a long time: which the Lord promised by oath to your fathers, and to their seed, a land which floweth with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 11:11
But it is a land of hills and plains, expecting rain from heaven.

Isaiah 37:25
I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.

Jeremiah 2:7
And I brought you into the land of Carmel, to eat the fruit thereof, and the best things thereof: and when ye entered in, you defiled my land and made my inheritance an abomination.

Deuteronomy 11:9
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