Deuteronomy 30:15

15 Behold thou, that today I have set forth in thy sight life and good, and, on the contrary, death and evil;

Deuteronomy 30:15 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 30:15

See, I have set before thee this day
Moses here returns to press the Israelites to the present observance of the laws, statutes, and judgments of one sort and another, he had been delivering to them; as being of great moment and importance to them, no other than

life and good, and death and evil;
which are the effects and consequences of obedience and disobedience to them; a happy temporal life, and a continuance of it in the good land of Canaan, and an enjoyment of the blessings and good things thereof to them that are obedient; for not spiritual and eternal life, or spiritual blessings and everlasting happiness, are to be had by man's obedience to the law of works, only through Christ, through his obedience, righteousness, sufferings, and death; see ( Galatians 3:21 ) ; so temporal death, or a cutting short of natural life in the promised land, and evil things, calamities, and distresses, or a deprivation of all the good things of it to the disobedient; see ( Isaiah 1:19 Isaiah 1:20 ) .

Deuteronomy 30:15 In-Context

13 neither it is set beyond the sea, that thou complain, and say, Who of us may pass over the sea, and bring it hither to us, that we may hear, and do that that is commanded to us? (nor is it set beyond the sea, so that thou can complain, and say, Who of us shall cross over the sea, and bring it back here to us, so that we can hear it, and do what is commanded to us?)

14 But the word is full nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thine heart, that thou do it. (But the word is very near to thee, yea, it is in thy mouth, and in thy heart, so that thou can do it.)

15 Behold thou, that today I have set forth in thy sight life and good, and, on the contrary, death and evil;

16 that thou love thy Lord God, and go in his ways, and keep his behests, and his ceremonies, and his dooms; and that thou live, and he multiply thee, and bless thee in the land to which thou shalt enter to wield. (so that thou can love the Lord thy God, and go in all his ways, and obey his commandments, and his statutes, and his laws, or his judgements; and so that thou shalt live, and that he multiply thee, and bless thee in the land to which thou shalt enter to take.)

17 But if thine heart is turned away, and thou wilt not hear, and thou art deceived by error, and worshippest alien gods, and servest them, (But if thy heart is turned away, and thou wilt not listen, and obey, and thou art deceived by error, and worshippest foreign, or other, gods, and servest them,)