Moses called it “a good land, a land of torrent valleys of water, springs and watery deeps issuing forth in the valley plain and in the mountainous region, a land of wheat and barley and vines and figs and pomegranates, a land of oil olives and honey, a land in which you will not eat bread with scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land the stones of which are iron and out of the mountains of which you will mine copper. ” — Deuteronomy 8: 7 - 9.
Mooses nimetas seda „heaks maaks, veeojade, allikate ja sügavate vete maaks, mis voolavad orgudes ja mägedes, nisu, odra, viinapuude, viigipuude, granaatõunapuude, õlipuude ja mee maaks, maaks, kus sa ei söö leiba kehvuses, kus sul midagi ei puudu, maaks, mille kivid on raud ja mille mägedest sa saad raiuda vaske ”.