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Deuteronomy 30 American Standard Version (1901)

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1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither Jehovah thy God hath driven thee, 2 and shalt return unto Jehovah thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul; 3 that then Jehovah thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the peoples, whither Jehovah thy God hath scattered thee. 4 If [any of] thine outcasts be in the uttermost parts of heaven, from thence will Jehovah thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: 5 and Jehovah thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. 6 And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. 7 And Jehovah thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, that persecuted thee. 8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of Jehovah, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. 9 And Jehovah thy God will make thee plenteous in all the work of thy hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, for good: for Jehovah will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers; 10 if thou shalt obey the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if thou turn unto Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. 11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not too hard for thee, neither is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. 15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 in that I command thee this day to love Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that thou mayest live and multiply, and that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it. 17 But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not prolong your days in the land, whither thou passest over the Jordan to go in to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed; 20 to love Jehovah thy God, to obey his voice, and to cleave unto him; for he is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Cross references (20)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 1 Kings 8:47–48; Deuteronomy 30:15; Deuteronomy 4:29–30; Deuteronomy 30:19; Deuteronomy 29:28
  2. 2 Joel 2:12–13; Nehemiah 1:9; Deuteronomy 4:28–31; Lamentations 3:40; Ephesians 6:24
  3. 3 Jeremiah 29:14; Ezekiel 36:24; Psalm 147:2; Ezekiel 34:12–13; Lamentations 3:32
  4. 4 Nehemiah 1:9; Ezekiel 39:25–29; Deuteronomy 28:64; Isaiah 11:11–16; Isaiah 43:6
  5. 5 Jeremiah 29:14
  6. 6 Ezekiel 36:26–27; Deuteronomy 10:16; Jeremiah 32:39; Ezekiel 11:19–20; Romans 2:28–29
  7. 7 Deuteronomy 7:15; Lamentations 4:21–22; Jeremiah 51:24–26; Ezekiel 25:12; Numbers 24:14
  8. 8 Ephesians 2:16; Ezekiel 36:27; Jeremiah 32:39–40; Ezekiel 11:19–20; Ezekiel 37:24
  9. 9 Deuteronomy 28:11–14; Jeremiah 32:41; Jeremiah 33:9; Deuteronomy 28:4; Isaiah 65:19
  10. 10 Lamentations 3:40–41; Deuteronomy 4:29; Deuteronomy 30:8; 1 Corinthians 7:19; Deuteronomy 30:2
  11. 11 Isaiah 45:19; Psalm 147:19–20; Romans 16:25–26; Colossians 1:26–27
  12. 12 Romans 10:6–8; Proverbs 30:4; John 3:13
  13. 13 John 6:27; Proverbs 2:1–5; Proverbs 8:11; Romans 10:14–15; Acts 10:33
  14. 14 Romans 10:8–10; Jeremiah 12:2; John 5:46; Matthew 7:21; Luke 10:11–12
  15. 15 Deuteronomy 11:26; Deuteronomy 30:19; Deuteronomy 30:1; Galatians 3:13–14; 1 John 5:11–12
  16. 16 Matthew 22:37–38; Deuteronomy 30:6; 1 John 5:2–3; John 14:21; Deuteronomy 6:5
  17. 17 2 Timothy 4:4; Proverbs 1:32; Hebrews 3:12; John 3:19–21; 1 Samuel 12:25
  18. 18 Deuteronomy 8:19–20; Deuteronomy 4:26; Isaiah 63:17–18; Joshua 23:15–16; Deuteronomy 31:29
  19. 19 Deuteronomy 30:15; Deuteronomy 11:26; Psalm 119:30; Joshua 24:15–22; Proverbs 8:36
  20. 20 John 11:25–26; Deuteronomy 10:20; John 17:3; John 14:6; Acts 17:25

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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 30:15 Justin Martyr, First Apology (Chapters XLIV–XLVIII)

    And the holy Spirit of prophecy taught us this, telling us by Moses that God spoke thus to the man first created: "Behold, before thy face are good and evil: choose the good." And again, by the other prophet Isaiah, that the following utterance was made as if from God the Father and Lord of all: "Wash you, make you …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  2. Quotes verse 30:19 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book IV, Chapter IX)

    And therefore Moses says to them again: "Choose life, that thou mayest live, and thy seed, to love the Lord thy God, to hear His voice, to cleave unto Him; for this is thy life, and the length of thy days." Preparing man for this life, the Lord Himself did speak in His own person to all alike the words …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)