Deuteronomy 8

5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
7 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;
8 a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
9 a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

That's straightforward. It's from the speech of Moses to Israelites when he was already old and was probably expecting that he would depart soon.

God tries to secure good life for His people. And secure and good life shall be theirs if they obey the commandments, it as if God does everything that is in His power, excluding beating an ace with some other card, i.e. going against His own rules. In Eden, people had one commandment, merely to stay away from ... [something]. Don't touch! and thou shall be happy. Here, they have ten, plus loads of corollaries. The number of laws has severly increased. Man has grown muscles of discernment and now man has to exercise them. Moses knows they will fail to heed the necessary. He knows that later they are going self-justify themselves... ("we didn't know..."). Yet he doesn't give a damn, having used his life to edify and teach them the right way, the way that God wants to teach them. The hidden meaning is that by additional writings God/Moses wants to increase their knowledge, i.e. their consciousness of their actions and of their nature, taking temporary byway of learning about nature of one's actions through their consequences, at least for those who are more unwilling to heed commandments - which needn't necessarily be a bad thing, judging from God's huge perspective, does it. It can be expected that the reader of the unique edifying book, in any case naive reader, will think to himself: "What is the essence of the commandment(s)? Can I grasp it and practice it, to avoid more painful - and often less effective - ways of learning...?" Not to mention that those ways are often more slow? How can I go the fast & easy way? Not "easy" as in "superficial" but easy as in supereffective. - Effective in the sense of bringing results, fruits, "figs". Seeing that commandments have the power to save man from quite wicked experiences and grant fullnes from which one cannot but praise God they must be something truly extraordinary. Indeed, if one lets this thought sink deeply, one can see that they cannot be something like verbal, literal commandments to be obeyed, in ordinary sense of the word. The catch is again in the being. Moses knows their being is not sufficient. If man does not change the future won't change either. 'Commands' are given but one must have being to heed and 'obey' them.
Soon, Moses dies. The figs remain, though... and we shall take a look at them as they are filtered from the text for us, by absolutely gorgeous engines and their ridiculously powerful performance ancients didn't have, that we may just have taken for granted a little too soon, maybe. For 'em techies among you, boys and girls like that genuine hacker-in-the-making, always hiding as far as possible behind you, trying to act boredom, what was she, P. ... name begining with P, Priscilla? no; well, never mind; (I have it in the Address Book, I'm sure I do) think SELECT statement, globbing, regular expressions, fuzzy logic, complete the list yourself. Priscilla could tell us more than I can, of course, (who's laughing? well she JUST MIGHT you know), but she has to pay the bill, I guess. I fancy that won't exactly help, concerning distinct beginning symptoms of postmodern despair... I digress. Yes, I'm driving at the flip side of our marvellous technology, you see, because ancients had to rely on something else, not having the 'goodies' we have... perhaps some power they developed in themselves.

Few words concerning good land:

1. There is water, running water, still water, brooks and fountains (we would probably add lakes; the salty sea doesn't count here). Animal and man must drink; lack of water would be real curse.
2. There are good things to eat:
• wheat, barley
• vines
• fig trees, pomegranates
• olives, honey

On second thought, vine is not food proper, but the ancients thought it was just as essential. Anyway, for many people, still today, wine replaces food, and father and mother and brother and sister also. Kids.