Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 11:10

10 For the land whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye come out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and water [illegible: 1+ letters] it with thy foot as a garden of herbs:

(i. e) With great pains and labour of thy feet, partly by going up and down to fetch water and disperse it, and partly by digging furrows with thy foot, and using engines for distributing the water which engines they thrust with their feet. For though the River Nilus did once in a year overflow the grounds and made them fruitful, yet oft times it failed or s[illegible: 1+ letters]anted them, and then they were put to great pains about their ground; and when it did overflow sufficiently and left its Mud upon the earth, yet that Mud was in a little time hardned, and needed another watering and much digging and labour both of the hand and feet, especially in places something higher or more remote from that river. Which inconvenience Canaan was free from.