The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Deuteronomy 30
1 It shall happen, when all these things
have come on you, the blessing and the
curse, which I have set before you, and you
shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven
you,
2 and return to Yahweh your God and
obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children,
with all your heart and with all your soul,
3 that then Yahweh your God will release
you from captivity, have compassion on
you, and will return and gather you from
all the peoples where Yahweh your God
has scattered you.
4 If your outcasts are in the uttermost
parts of the heavens, from there Yahweh
your God will gather you, and from there
he will bring you back.
5 Yahweh your God will bring you into
the land which your fathers possessed,
and you will possess it. He will do you
good, and increase your numbers more
than your fathers.
6 Yahweh your God will circumcise your
heart, and the heart of your offspring, to
love Yahweh your God with all your heart
and with all your soul, that you may live.
7 Yahweh your God will put all these
curses on your enemies and on those who
hate you, who persecuted you.
8 You shall return and obey Yahweh’s
voice, and do all his commandments
which I command you today.
9 Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in
the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your
livestock, and in the fruit of your ground,
for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice
over you for good, as he rejoiced over your
fathers,
10 if you will obey Yahweh your God’s
voice, to keep his commandments and his
statutes which are written in this book of
the law, if you turn to Yahweh your God
with all your heart and with all your soul.
11 For this commandment which I command you today is not too hard for you or
too distant.
12 It is not in heaven, that you should say,
“Who will go up for us to heaven, bring it
to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do
it?”
13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you
should say, “Who will go over the sea for
us, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that
we may do it?”
14 But the word is very near to you, in
your mouth and in your heart, that you
may do it.
15 Behold, I have set before you today life
and prosperity, and death and evil.
16 For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways and
to keep his commandments, his statutes,
and his ordinances, that you may live and
multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to
possess it.
17 But if your heart turns away, and you
will not hear, but are drawn away and
worship other gods, and serve them,
18 I declare to you today that you will
surely perish. You will not prolong your
days in the land where you pass over the
Jordan to go in to possess it.
19 I call heaven and earth to witness
against youtoday thatIhave setbefore you
life and death, the blessing and the curse.
Therefore choose life, that you may live,
you and your descendants,
20 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his
voice, andto cling tohim;forhe is your life,
and the length of your days, that you may
dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to
your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob, to give them.