Commentaire sur Le Deutéronome 26:9

אל המקום הזה [AND HE HATH BROUGHT US] UNTO THIS PLACE — This refers to the Temple where the worshipper was standing when he made this declaration.

ויתן לנו את הארץ הזאת, after we had left Egypt as free men we did not have any part of the land to settle in, and He gave us this land which is a superior land flowing with milk and honey.

As indicated by the plain connotation. And therefore perforce “this place” refers to the Beis Hamikdosh. But if the explanation of “He gave us this land” is not according to its simple meaning, we could then explain that “to this place” means the Land of Israel.

V. 9. אל המקום הזה ,ויבאנו וגו׳, zu dieser von ihm erwählten Stätte seines Gesetzesheiligtums (vergl. Schmot 15, 17) und für dasselbe, für die Verwirklichung des hier ruhenden Gesetzes, ׳ויתן לנו וגו gab er uns das gesegnete Land, das sich um das Gesetzesheiligtum wie um seinen Mittelpunkt schließt, und dessen Besitz uns endlich die nie besessene Heimat gab. ויביאנו אל המקום הזה זה בית המקדש ויביאנו אל המקום הזה ויתן לנו בשכר ביאתנו אל המקום הזה נתן לנו את הארץ הזאת (ספרי)

ארץ זבת חלב ודבש, “a land flowing with milk and honey.” Just as the land flowing with milk and honey refers to only five of the seven Canaanite tribes where it is first mentioned in Exodus 13,5 so here too Moses refers to the areas of these five tribes. This is also the source of the statement of Rabbi Yossi ha’glili who ruled that firstling fruit could not be brought from produce grown on the east Bank of the Jordan as the quality of the soil there did not lend itself to producing superior fruit.

ויתן לנו את הארץ means what it literally implies: AND HATH GIVEN US THE LAND.