Deuteronomy 30:3-13

3 and Yahweh your God will restore your fortunes, and he will have compassion [upon] you, and {he will again gather you together} from all the peoples where Yahweh your God scattered you there.

4 "[Even] if {you are outcasts} at the end of the heavens, [even] from there Yahweh your God shall gather you, and from there {he shall bring you back}.

5 And Yahweh your God will bring you to the land that your ancestors had taken possession of, and he will make you successful, and he will make you more numerous than your ancestors.

6 "And Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your inner self {so that you may live}.

7 And Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and {on those who hate you}, [on] {those who harassed you}.

8 And {you will again listen} to the voice of Yahweh, and you will do all his commandments that I [am] commanding you {today}.

9 And Yahweh your God will make you prosperous {in all your undertakings}, and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground {abundantly}, for Yahweh {will again rejoice} over you, [just] as he rejoiced over your ancestors.

10 [He will do this] if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God by keeping his commandment and his statutes written in the scroll of this law [and] if you return to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your inner self.

11 "For this commandment that I [am] commanding you {today} [is] {not too wonderful for you}, and it [is] not [too] far [from you].

12 It is not in the heavens {so that you might say}, 'Who will go up for us to the heavens and get it for us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?'

13 And [it is] {not beyond the sea}, {so that you might say}, 'Who will cross for us to the other side of the sea and take it for us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?'

Deuteronomy 30:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 30

This chapter contains some gracious promises of the conversion of the Jews in the latter day, of their calling things to mind that have befallen them, of their repentance, and the circumcision of their hearts to love the Lord, of the return of them to their own land, and of the great increase of them, and of their enjoyment of plenty of good things, De 30:1-10; in it is an account of the Gospel, or word of faith, which at this time should be brought near to the Jews, and be received by them, De 30:11-14; and for the present Moses desires them to consider what he now set before them, and what would be the consequences of receiving or rejecting it, and so what it would be most proper for them to make choice of, De 30:15-20.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "he will do again and he will gather you together"
• [b]. Literally "he/it shall be outcasting your"
• [c]. Literally "he shall take/fetch you"
• [d]. Or "fathers"
• [e]. Hebrew "of it"
• [f]. Or "fathers"
• [g]. Or "soul"
• [h]. Literally "for the sake of your life"
• [i]. Literally "the haters of you"
• [j]. Literally "who pursued after/persecuted you"
• [k]. Literally "you will return and you will listen"
• [l]. Literally "the day"
• [m]. Literally "in all of the work of your hand"
• [n]. Literally "to/for good"
• [o]. Literally "he will return ... to rejoice"
• [p]. Or "fathers"
• [q]. Or "if you obey/hearken to"
• [r]. Or "soul"
• [s]. Literally "the day"
• [t]. Literally "not [is] wonderful it from you"
• [u]. Literally "to say"
• [v]. Literally "is not from beyond the sea"
• [w]. Literally "to say"