Deuteronomy 30:13-20

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?'

14 But the word is very near you, [even] in your mouth and in your heart, {so that you may do it}.

15 "See, I am setting {before you} {today} life and prosperity and death and disaster;

16 what I am commanding you {today} [is] to love Yahweh your God by going in his ways and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his regulations, and then you will live, and you will become numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the {land where you are going}.

17 However, if your heart turns aside and you [do] not listen and you are lured away and you bow down to other gods and you serve them,

18 I declare to you {today} that you will certainly perish; {you will not extend your time} on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to go there to take possession of it.

19 I invoke as a witness against you {today} the heaven and the earth: life and death I have set {before you}, blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring,

20 by loving Yahweh your God by listening to his voice and by clinging to him, for he [is] your life and the length of your days [in order for you] to live on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them."

Deuteronomy 30:13-20 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 "is not from beyond the sea"
• [b]. Literally "to say"
• [c]. Literally "to do it"
• [d]. Literally "to the face of you"
• [e]. Literally "the day"
• [f]. Literally "the day"
• [g]. Or "walking"
• [h]. Literally "the land where you [are] going there"
• [i]. Literally "the day"
• [j]. Literally "you will not make long days"
• [k]. Literally "the day"
• [l]. Literally "to the face of you"
• [m]. Or "seed"
• [n]. Or "fathers"