Deuteronomy 30Deuteronomy30

Berean Standard BibleKing James Version

1. The Promise of Restoration

   (Nehemiah 1:1–11)

2. 1BSB“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,KJVKJV: 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 the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
3. 2BSBand when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,KJVKJV: And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
4. 3BSBthen He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.KJVKJV: That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
5. 4BSBEven if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.KJVKJV: If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
6. 5BSBAnd the LORD your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more than your fathers.KJVKJV: And the LORD 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.
7. 6BSBThe LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.KJVKJV: And 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 mayest live.
8. 7BSBThen the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you.KJVKJV: And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
9. 8BSBAnd you will again obey the voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you today.KJVKJV: And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.
10. 9BSBSo the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers,KJVKJV: And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
11. 10BSBif you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.KJVKJV: If 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, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

12. The Choice of Life or Death

13. 11BSBFor this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.KJVKJV: For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
14. 12BSBIt is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’KJVKJV: It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
15. 13BSBAnd it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’KJVKJV: Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
16. 14BSBBut the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.KJVKJV: But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
17. 15BSBSee, I have set before you today life and prosperity, as well as death and disaster.KJVKJV: See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
18. 16BSBFor I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.KJVKJV: In that 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 judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
19. 17BSBBut if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,KJVKJV: But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
20. 18BSBI declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.KJVKJV: I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
21. 19BSBI call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,KJVKJV: I call heaven and earth to record this day 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:
22. 20BSBand that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”KJVKJV: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.