Deuteronomy 30:15

JPS Old Testament

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
See, today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and adversity.

Hebrew Names Version
Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;

King James Version
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

Lexham English Bible
"See, I am setting before you today life and prosperity and death and disaster;

English Standard Version
"See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.

New Century Version
Look, today I offer you life and success, death and destruction.

New English Translation
"Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other.

Amplified Bible
"Listen closely, I have set before you today life and prosperity (good), and death and adversity (evil);

New American Standard Bible
"See, I have placed before you today life and happiness, and death and adversity,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Beholde, I haue set before thee this day life and good, death and euill,

Legacy Standard Bible
"See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and calamity;

Contemporary English Version
Today I am giving you a choice. You can choose life and success or death and disaster.

Complete Jewish Bible
(RY: iv, LY: vii) "Look! I am presenting you today with, on the one hand, life and good; and on the other, death and evil —

Darby Translation
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil,

Easy-to-Read Version
"Today I have given you a choice between life and death, success and disaster.

George Lamsa Translation
See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and misfortunes;

Good News Translation
"Today I am giving you a choice between good and evil, between life and death.

Literal Translation
Behold, I have set before you today life and good and death and evil,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beholde, I haue layed before you this daye, life and good, death and euell.

American Standard Version
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

Bible in Basic English
See, I have put before you today, life and good, and death and evil;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beholde I haue set before thee this day, lyfe and good, death and euyll:

King James Version (1611)
See, I haue set before thee this day, life and good, and death, and euill:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Behold, I have set before thee this day life and death, good and evil.

English Revised Version
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

Berean Standard Bible
See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, as well as death and disaster.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Biholde thou, that to day Y haue set forth in thi siyt lijf and good, and ayenward deeth and yuel;

Young's Literal Translation
`See, I have set before thee to-day life and good, and death and evil,

Update Bible Version
See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;

Webster's Bible Translation
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

World English Bible
Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;

New King James Version
"See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil,

New Living Translation
"Now listen! Today I am giving you a choice between life and death, between prosperity and disaster.

New Life Bible
"See, I have put in front of you today life and what is good, and death and what is bad.

New Revised Standard
See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
See! I have set before thee, to-day, life and prosperity, - and death and calamity;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good, and on the other hand death and evil:

Revised Standard Version
"See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil.

THE MESSAGE
Look at what I've done for you today: I've placed in front of you Life and Good Death and Evil.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity;

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil, ¹⁶ 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 ordinances; then thou shalt live and multiply, and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it. ¹⁷ But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; ¹⁸ I declare unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over the Jordan to go in to possess it. ¹⁹ I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed; ²⁰ to love the LORD thy God, to hearken to His voice, and to cleave unto Him; for that is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 30:1, Deuteronomy 30:19, Deuteronomy 11:26, Deuteronomy 28:1-14, Deuteronomy 32:47, Mark 16:16, John 3:16, Galatians 3:13, Galatians 3:14, Galatians 5:6, 1 John 3:23, 1 John 5:11, 1 John 5:12

Reciprocal: Joshua 8:34 - blessings 2 Chronicles 33:8 - so that they Jeremiah 21:8 - I set Ezekiel 18:31 - for why

Cross-References

Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife.

Genesis 30:10
And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a son.

Numbers 16:13
is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make thyself also a prince over us?

Isaiah 7:13
And he said: 'Hear ye now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my God also?

Ezekiel 16:47
Yet hast thou not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but in a very little while thou didst deal more corruptly than they in all thy ways.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See, I have set before thee this day,.... Moses here returns to press the Israelites to the present observance of the laws, statutes, and judgments of one sort and another, he had been delivering to them; as being of great moment and importance to them, no other than

life and good, and death and evil; which are the effects and consequences of obedience and disobedience to them; a happy temporal life, and a continuance of it in the good land of Canaan, and an enjoyment of the blessings and good things thereof to them that are obedient; for not spiritual and eternal life, or spiritual blessings and everlasting happiness, are to be had by man's obedience to the law of works, only through Christ, through his obedience, righteousness, sufferings, and death; see Galatians 3:21; so temporal death, or a cutting short of natural life in the promised land, and evil things, calamities, and distresses, or a deprivation of all the good things of it to the disobedient; see Isaiah 1:19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ignorance of the requirements of the law cannot be pleaded Deuteronomy 30:10-14; hence, Deuteronomy 30:15-20 life and death, good and evil, are solemnly set before the people for their own choice; and an earnest exhortation to choose the better part concludes the address.

Deuteronomy 30:11-14. “The righteousness which is of faith” is really and truly described in these words of the Law; and, under Paul’s guidance (see marginal references) we affirm was intended so to be. For the simplicity and accessibility which Moses here attributes to the Law of God neither is nor can be experimentally found in it except through the medium of faith; even though outwardly and in the letter that Law be written out for us so “that he may run that readeth,” and be set forth in its duties and its sanctions as plainly as it was before the Jews by Moses. The seeming ease of the commandment, and yet its real impossibility to the natural man, form part of the qualifications of the Law to be our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ.

Deuteronomy 30:11

Not hidden from thee - Rather, not too hard for thee, as in Deuteronomy 17:8.

Neither is it far off - Compare Luke 17:21.

Deuteronomy 30:13

The paraphrase of this verse in the Jerusalem Targum is noteworthy, and should be compared with Paul’s rendering in Romans 10:7 : “Neither is the law beyond the great sea, that thou shouldest say, Oh that we had one like Jonah the prophet who could descend into the depths of the sea and bring it to us!”

Deuteronomy 30:14

In thy mouth, and in, thy heart - Compare Deuteronomy 6:6; Deuteronomy 11:18-20.

Deuteronomy 30:20

That thou mayest love the Lord - Compare Deuteronomy 6:5. Love stands first as the essential and only source of obedience.

He is thy life - Or, “that” (i. e., “to love the Lord”) “is thy life;” i. e., the condition of thy life and of its prolongation in the promised land. Compare Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 32:47.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 30:15. Life and good — Present and future blessings.

Death and evil — Present and future miseries: termed, Deuteronomy 30:19, Life and death, blessing and cursing. And why were these set before them?

1. That they might comprehend their import.

2. That they might feel their importance.

3. That they might choose life, and the path of believing, loving obedience, that led to it.

4. That they and their posterity, thus choosing life and refusing evil, might be the favourites of God in time and eternity.

Were there no such thing as free will in man, who could reconcile these sayings either with sincerity or common sense? God has made the human will free, and there is no power or influence either in heaven, earth, or hell, except the power of God, that can deprive it of its free volitions; of its power to will and nill, to choose and refuse, to act or not act or force it to sin against God. Hence man is accountable for his actions, because they are his; were he necessitated by fate, or sovereign constraint, they could not be his. Hence he is rewardable, hence he is punishable. God, in his creation, willed that the human creature should be free, and he formed his soul accordingly; and the Law and Gospel, the promise and precept, the denunciation of wo and the doctrine of eternal life, are all constructed on this ground; that is, they all necessarily suppose the freedom of the human will: nor could it be will if it were not free, because the principle of freedom or liberty is necessarily implied in the idea of volition. See on the fifth chapter and 29th verse. Deuteronomy 30:19- :