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Palestine included everything required to make a perfect commonwealth, an earthly paradise. It had —

1. God's special husbandry. God cared for it.

(1)  A free land.

(2)  A productive land.

(3)  A beautiful land.

(4)  A holy land.

2. The perennial watchfulness of God.

(1)  The land, with all its interests, was precious to Him.

(2)  The produce of the land was assured.

(3)  No wrong-doer could be uncondemned.

(4)  The right had His approbation.

(Homiletic Monthly.)

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KJV: For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:

WEB: For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, that you came out from, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;