Popular Bible Verses from D'varim (Deu) 30

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“I call on heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have presented you with life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore, choose life, so that you will live, you and your descendants, loving ADONAI your God, paying attention to what he says and clinging to him — for that is the purpose of your life! On this depends the length of time you will live in the land ADONAI swore he would give to your ancestors Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov.” Haftarah Nitzavim: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 61:10–63:9 B’rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Nitzavim: Romans 9:30–10:13; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 12:14 –15 [In regular years read with Parashah 51, in leap years read separately]

in that I am ordering you today to love ADONAI your God, to follow his ways, and to obey his mitzvot, regulations and rulings ; for if you do, you will live and increase your numbers; and ADONAI your God will bless you in the land you are entering in order to take possession of it.

“Look! I am presenting you today with, on the one hand, life and good; and on the other, death and evil

On the contrary, the word is very close to you — in your mouth, even in your heart; therefore, you can do it! (RY: iv, LY: vii)

Then ADONAI your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your children, so that you will love ADONAI your God with all your heart and all your being, and thus you will live. (RY: iii, LY: v)

Then ADONAI your God will give you more than enough in everything you set out to do — the fruit of your body, the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your land will all do well; for ADONAI will once again rejoice to see you do well, just as he rejoiced in your ancestors.

But if your heart turns away, if you refuse to listen, if you are drawn away to prostrate yourselves before other gods and serve them; (LY: Maftir) I am announcing to you today that you will certainly perish; you will not live long in the land you are crossing the Yarden to enter and possess.

For this mitzvah which I am giving you today is not too hard for you, it is not beyond your reach.

It isn’t in the sky, so that you need to ask, ‘Who will go up into the sky for us, bring it to us and make us hear it, so that we can obey it?’

Likewise, it isn’t beyond the sea, so that you need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea for us, bring it to us and make us hear it, so that we can obey it?’