Twelve things awaited the twelve tribes when they finally reached the Promised Land: Brooks, fountains, wheat, barley, vines, figs, pomegranates, olive oil, honey, bread, iron, and copper. This is literally true, but surely there were more good things than these in the Lnad. Why did Moses list these specific twelve items in Deuteronomy 8:7-9? Interestingly, they are arranged chiastically by type and function, and they also contain allegorical truths about life in God's Kingdom.

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12 Sources of Life in the Promised Land - American Torah

In Deuteronomy 8:7-9 God lists twelve things that the Hebrews would find when they finally arrived in the Promised Land. 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 v