Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 8:7-9 
Context8:7 For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, 1 springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills, 8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey, 8:9 a land where you may eat food 2 in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron 3 and from whose hills you can mine copper.
1 tn Or “wadis.”
2 tn The Hebrew term may refer to “food” in a more general sense (cf. NASB, NCV, NLT) or “bread” in particular (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV).
3 sn A land whose stones are iron. Since iron deposits are few and far between in Palestine, the reference here is probably to iron ore found in mines as opposed to the meteorite iron more commonly known in that area.
