Deuteronomy 30
30
The LORD will bring you back
Moses said to Israel:
1I have told you everything the LORD your God will do for you, and I've also told you the curses he will put on you if you reject him. He will scatter you in faraway countries, but when you realize that he is punishing you, 2return to him with all your heart and soul and start obeying the commands I have given to you today. 3-4Then he will stop punishing you and treat you with kindness. He may have scattered you to the furthest countries on earth, but he will bring you back 5to the land that had belonged to your ancestors and make you even more successful and powerful than they ever were.
6You and your descendants are stubborn, but the LORD will make you willing to obey him and love him with all your heart and soul, and you will enjoy a long life.
7Then the LORD your God will remove the curses from you and put them on those enemies who hate and attack you.
8You will again obey the laws and teachings of the LORD, 9and he will bless you with many children, large herds and flocks, and abundant crops. The LORD will be happy to do good things for you, just as he did for your ancestors. 10But you must decide once and for all to worship him with all your heart and soul and to obey everything in The Book of God's Law.
Choose life, not death
Moses said to Israel:
11You know God's laws, and it isn't impossible to obey them. 12His commands aren't in heaven, so you can't excuse yourselves by saying, “How can we obey the LORD's commands? They are in heaven, and no one can go up to get them, then bring them down and explain them to us.”#Ro 10.6-8. 13And you can't say, “How can we obey the LORD's commands? They are across the sea, and someone must go across, then bring them back and explain them to us.” 14No, these commands are nearby and you know them by heart. All you have to do is obey!
15Today I am giving you a choice. You can choose life and success or death and disaster. 16-18I am commanding you to be loyal to the LORD, to live the way he has told you, and to obey his laws and teachings. You are about to cross the River Jordan and take the land that he is giving you. If you obey him, you will live and become successful and powerful.
On the other hand, you might choose to disobey the LORD and reject him. So I'm warning you that if you bow down and worship other gods, you won't have long to live.
19Now I call the sky and the earth to be witnesses that I am offering you this choice. Will you choose for the LORD to make you prosperous and give you a long life? Or will he put you under a curse and kill you? Choose life! 20Be completely faithful to the LORD your God, love him, and do whatever he tells you. The LORD is the only one who can give life, and he will let you live a long time in the land that he promised to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.#Gn 12.7; Gn 26.3; Gn 28.13.
Final speeches and the death of Moses
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Deuteronomy 30
30
Deuteronomy 30
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 return unto thy heart among all the Gentiles, where the Lord thy God shall have driven thee,
2and shalt convert unto the Lord thy God and shalt hear his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart and with all thy soul,
3then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity and have mercy upon thee and will return and gather thee from all the peoples where the Lord thy God has scattered thee.
4If thou hast been driven out unto the outmost parts of the heavens, from there will the Lord thy God gather thee and from there will he take thee;
5and the Lord thy God will return thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt inherit it; and he will do thee good and multiply thee more than thy fathers.
6And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul, that thou may live.
7And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies and on those that hate thee, who persecuted thee.
8And thou shalt return and thou shalt hear the voice of the Lord and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.
9And the Lord thy God will make thee abound in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body and in the fruit of thy beasts and in the fruit of thy land, for good; for the Lord will turn to rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers,
10when thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, when thou shalt turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul.
11¶ For this commandment which I command thee today is not hidden unto thee, neither is it far off.
12It is not in heaven, that thou should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven and take it for us and recite it unto us, that we may fulfil it?
13Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou should say, Who shall go over the sea for us and take it for us and recite it unto us, that we may fulfil it?
14But the word is very near unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou may fulfil it.
15¶ See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
16for I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his rights, that thou may live and be multiplied; and may the Lord thy God bless thee in the land into which thou dost enter to inherit it.
17But if thine heart turns away so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,
18I declare unto you this day that ye shall surely perish and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, to go unto which thou passest the Jordan to inherit it.
19I call the heavens and the earth to witness today against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore, choose life that both thou and thy seed may live,
20that thou may love the Lord thy God and that thou may hear his voice and that thou may cleave unto him; for he is thy life and the length of thy days that thou may dwell in the land which the Lord swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob, to give them.
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