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Deuteronomy 30 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899

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1 Now when all these things shall be come upon thee, the blessing or the curse, which I have set forth before thee, and thou shalt be touched with repentance of thy heart among all the nations, into which the Lord thy God shall have scattered thee, 2 And shalt return to him, and obey his commandments, as I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul: 3 The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity, and will have mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations, into which he scattered thee before. 4 If thou be driven as far as the poles of heaven, the Lord thy God will fetch thee back from thence, 5 And will take thee to himself, and bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: and blessing thee, he will make thee more numerous than were thy fathers. 6 The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed: that then mayst love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayst live. 7 And he will turn all these curses upon thy enemies, and upon them that hate and persecute thee. 8 But thou shalt return, and hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and shalt do all the commandments which I command thee this day: 9 And the Lord thy God will make thee abound in all the works of thy hands, in the fruit of thy womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, in the fruitfulness of thy land, and in the plenty of all things. For the Lord will return to rejoice over thee in all good things, as he rejoiced in thy fathers: 10 Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep his precepts and ceremonies, which are written in this law: and return to the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. 11 This commandment, that I command thee this day is not above thee, nor far off from thee: 12 Nor is it in heaven, that thou shouldst say: Which of us can go up to heaven to bring it unto us, and we may hear and fulfill it in work? 13 Nor is it beyond the sea: that thou mayst excuse thyself, and say: Which of us can cross the sea, and bring it unto us: that we may hear, and do that which is commanded? 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that thou mayst do it. 15 Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good, and on the other hand death and evil: 16 That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and keep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments, and thou mayst live, and he may multiply thee, and bless thee in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess. 17 But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear, and being deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them: 18 I foretell thee this day that thou shalt perish, and shalt remain but a short time in the land, to which thou shalt pass over the Jordan, and shalt go in to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose therefore life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20 And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and obey his voice, and adhere to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy days,) that thou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give it 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)