Deuteronomy 8:7

Good News Translation

The Lord your God is bringing you into a fertile land—a land that has rivers and springs, and underground streams gushing out into the valleys and hills;

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;

King James Version
For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;

Lexham English Bible
For Yahweh your God is bringing you to a good land with streams of water, springs and underground water, welling up in the valleys and in the hills,

English Standard Version
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills,

New Century Version
The Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with rivers and pools of water, with springs that flow in the valleys and hills,

New English Translation
For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,

Amplified Bible
"For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;

New American Standard Bible
"For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of streams of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in valleys and hills;

Geneva Bible (1587)
For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land in the which are riuers of water and fountaines, and depthes that spring out of valleis and mountaines:

Legacy Standard Bible
For Yahweh your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;

Contemporary English Version
The Lord your God is bringing you into a good land with streams that flow from springs in the valleys and hills.

Complete Jewish Bible
For Adonai your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams, springs and water welling up from the depths in valleys and on hillsides.

Darby Translation
For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of water-brooks, of springs, and of deep waters, that gush forth in the valleys and hills;

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with rivers and pools of water. Water flows out of the ground in the valleys and hills.

George Lamsa Translation
For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and mountains;

Christian Standard Bible®
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills;

Literal Translation
For Jehovah your God brings you into a good land, a land of streams of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the LORDE thy God bryngeth the in to a good londe: A londe where in are ryuers of water, fountaynes and sprynges, which flowe by the hilles and valleys:

American Standard Version
For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;

Bible in Basic English
For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the Lorde thy God bryngeth thee into a good lande, a lande in the whiche are riuers of water, and fountaines and deapthes that spring out of valleys and hylles:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills;

King James Version (1611)
For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a lande of brookes of water, of fountaines, and depths that spring out of valleys and hilles,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good and extensive land, where there are torrents of waters, and fountains of deep places issuing through the plains and through the mountains:

English Revised Version
For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills;

Berean Standard Bible
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thi Lord God schal lede thee in to a good lond, in to the lond of ryueris, and of `stondynge watris, and of wellis, in whos feeldis and mounteyns the depthis of floodis breken out;

Young's Literal Translation
`For Jehovah thy God is bringing thee in unto a good land, a land of brooks of waters, of fountains, and of depths coming out in valley and in mountain:

Update Bible Version
For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;

Webster's Bible Translation
For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;

World English Bible
For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;

New King James Version
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills;

New Living Translation
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land of flowing streams and pools of water, with fountains and springs that gush out in the valleys and hills.

New Life Bible
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of rivers and wells of water, flowing into valleys from hills.

New Revised Standard
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, Yahweh thy God, is bringing thee into a good land; a land of ravines of water, of fountains and depths, coming forth in valley, and in mountain:

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good land, of brooks and of waters, and of fountains: in the plains of which and the hills deep rivers break out:

Revised Standard Version
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;

Contextual Overview

¹ "Obey faithfully all the laws that I have given you today, so that you may live, increase in number, and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ² Remember how the Lord your God led you on this long journey through the desert these past forty years, sending hardships to test you, so that he might know what you intended to do and whether you would obey his commands. ³ He made you go hungry, and then he gave you manna to eat, food that you and your ancestors had never eaten before. He did this to teach you that you must not depend on bread alone to sustain you, but on everything that the Lord says. ⁴ During these forty years your clothes have not worn out, nor have your feet swollen up. ⁵ Remember that the Lord your God corrects and punishes you just as parents discipline their children. ⁶ So then, do as the Lord has commanded you: live according to his laws and obey him. ⁷ The Lord your God is bringing you into a fertile land—a land that has rivers and springs, and underground streams gushing out into the valleys and hills; ⁸ a land that produces wheat and barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and honey. ⁹ There you will never go hungry or ever be in need. Its rocks have iron in them, and from its hills you can mine copper.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 6:10, Deuteronomy 6:11, Deuteronomy 11:10-12, Exodus 3:8, Nehemiah 9:24, Nehemiah 9:25, Psalms 65:9-13, Ezekiel 20:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:28 - plenty Numbers 14:7 - an exceeding good land Deuteronomy 11:11 - General Deuteronomy 31:20 - when Deuteronomy 33:28 - the fountain Joshua 24:13 - cities Judges 18:10 - where there 2 Kings 18:32 - like your own Nehemiah 9:35 - fat land Psalms 104:10 - He sendeth Psalms 106:24 - the pleasant land Psalms 147:14 - filleth Ecclesiastes 6:2 - so Isaiah 32:12 - pleasant fields Isaiah 36:17 - a land of corn Jeremiah 2:7 - brought Lamentations 1:7 - all her Ezekiel 17:5 - planted it in a fruitful field Ezekiel 19:10 - she was Malachi 3:12 - a delightsome

Cross-References

1 Kings 17:4
The brook will supply you with water to drink, and I have commanded ravens to bring you food there."

1 Kings 17:6
He drank water from the brook, and ravens brought him bread and meat every morning and every evening.

Job 38:41
Who is it that feeds the ravens when they wander about hungry, when their young cry to me for food?

Psalms 147:9
He gives animals their food and feeds the young ravens when they call.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land,.... The land of Canaan, abounding with good things after enumerated, a land flowing with milk and honey, having in it plenty of everything both for convenience and delight; which is another reason why they were under obligations to serve the Lord, to walk in his ways and keep his commandments:

a land of brooks of water; rivers and torrents, such as Jordan, Jabbok, Kishon, Kidron, Cherith, and others:

of fountains; as Siloam, Gihon, Etam, the baths of Tiberias, and others:

and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; deep waters, caverns, wells, and lakes, which had their rise from such places, of which there were many. With this agrees the account of it by our countrymen, Mr. Sandys g, as it was in the beginning of the last century; that it was adorned with beautiful mountains and luxurious valleys, the rocks producing excellent waters, and no part empty of delight or profit.

g Travels, l. 3. p. 110.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See Exodus 3:8 note, and the contrast expressed in Deuteronomy 11:10-11, between Palestine and Egypt.

The physical characteristics and advantages of a country like Palestine must have been quite strange to Israel at the time Moses was speaking: compare Deuteronomy 3:25 note. To have praised the fertility and excellence of the promised land at an earlier period would have increased the murmurings and impatience of the people at being detained in the wilderness: whereas now it encouraged them to encounter with more cheerfulness the opposition that they would meet from the inhabitants of Canaan.

Deuteronomy 8:8

Vines - The abundance of wine in Syria and Palestine is dwelt upon in the Egyptian records of the campaigns of Thotmosis III. Only a little wine is produced in Egypt itself. The production of wine has in later times gradually ceased in Palestine (circa 1880’s).

Deuteronomy 8:9

For brass read copper (Genesis 4:22 note); and compare the description of mining operations in Job 28:1-11. Mining does not seem to have been extensively carried on by the Jews, though it certainly was by the Canaanite peoples displaced by them. Traces of iron and copper works have been discovered by modern travelers in Lebanon and many parts of the country; e. g., the district of Argob (see Deuteronomy 3:4 notes) contains iron-stone in abundance.