Deuteronomy 30:11-14

Listen to Deuteronomy 30:11-14

The Choice of Life or Death

11 For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
12 It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven [a] to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
13 And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea [b] to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
14 But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, [c] so that you may obey it.

Deuteronomy 30:11-14 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.

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Footnotes 3

  • [a] Cited in Romans 10:6
  • [b] See Romans 10:7.
  • [c] Cited in Romans 10:8
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