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Deuteronomy 30

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1 When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations,

2 and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today,

3 then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.

4 Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back.

5 He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors.

6 The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.

7 The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.

8 You will again obey the LORD and follow all his commands I am giving you today.

9 Then the LORD your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors,

10 if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

11 Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.

12 It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, "Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?"

13 Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, "Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?"

14 No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so that you may obey it.

15 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.

16 For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

17 But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

18 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

19 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live

20 and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Translation notes (10)
  1. Deuteronomy 30:3a "Restore your fortunes" translates the Hebrew shav... 'et shevutkha, a recurring phrase for restoration. There is a striking wordplay here: the LORD himself "returns" (shav) Israel's "return" or "captivity" in response to Israel's "returning" (repentance) in verse 2.
  2. Deuteronomy 30:6a "Circumcise your hearts" translates the Hebrew umal YHWH 'et levavkha, a profound metaphor for an inward transformation that God himself works, enabling the love and obedience the law requires. This develops the call of 10:16 ("circumcise your hearts") into a divine promise, and is also found in the prophets (Jeremiah 4:4; 31:33; Ezekiel 36:26) and the New Testament (Romans 2:28-29; Colossians 2:11).
  3. Deuteronomy 30:9a "The LORD will again delight in you" translates the Hebrew yashuv YHWH lasus 'aleikha. This phrase deliberately mirrors and reverses 28:63 ("the LORD will delight... to destroy you"), using the same verb for "delight" but now for restoration, showing covenant grace overcoming a covenant curse.
  4. Deuteronomy 30:11a This verse opens the famous "it is not too hard / not far off" passage (verses 11-14), which declares the commandment accessible and doable. Paul quotes and reapplies this passage to "the word of faith" and Christ in Romans 10:6-8, which is a major and much-discussed use in the New Testament.
  5. Deuteronomy 30:12a This verse is quoted by Paul in Romans 10:6, where he writes, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'—that is, to bring Christ down."
  6. Deuteronomy 30:13a This verse is quoted and reapplied by Paul in Romans 10:7, where he writes, "'Who will descend into the abyss?'—that is, to bring Christ up from the dead."
  7. Deuteronomy 30:14a The phrase "in your mouth and in your heart" (befikha uvilvavkha) is the climax of verses 11-14, emphasizing that the revealed word is internal and accessible, not remote. Paul quotes this exact phrase in Romans 10:8, saying, "the word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart—that is, the word of faith we proclaim."
  8. Deuteronomy 30:15a This verse presents the two-ways choice that climaxes the book: life paired with good, and death paired with evil. This reduces the entire covenant to a clear decision set before the people.
  9. Deuteronomy 30:19a This is the climactic appeal of the whole book. Heaven and earth are summoned as covenant witnesses, which is a standard treaty witness formula (see 4:26; 31:28; 32:1). The command "choose life" (uvacharta bachayyim) is among the most quoted lines in Scripture.
  10. Deuteronomy 30:20a "The LORD is your life" (ki hu' chayyeikha) is the central message of this appeal: life is not merely the reward of obedience but is found in the LORD himself. The book's exhortation closes by anchoring this promise in the oath made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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