For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Deuteronomy 30:16 in context
Deuteronomy 30:13–19
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Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who will go over the sea for us, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?”
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But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
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Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.
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For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
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But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,
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I declare to you today that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.
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I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,
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