Deuteronomy 30:19 “I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set…”

Deuteronomy 30:19

I 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,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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:

World English Bible

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,

American Standard Version

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;

Geneva Bible 1599

I call heauen and earth to recorde this day against you, that I haue set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. therefore chuse life, that both thou and thy seede may liue,

Darby Translation

I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you: life and death have I set before you, blessing and cursing: choose then life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed,

Young's Literal Translation

'I have caused to testify against you to-day the heavens and the earth; life and death I have set before thee, the blessing and the reviling; and thou hast fixed on life, so that thou dost live, thou and thy seed,

Bible in Basic English

Let heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this day that I have put before you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so take life for yourselves and for your seed:

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Cross references

“I call heaven”

Deuteronomy 4:26 1 Timothy 5:21 Deuteronomy 31:28 Deuteronomy 32:1 Isaiah 1:2 Jeremiah 2:12

Deuteronomy 4:26 · BSB

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.

1 Timothy 5:21 · BSB

I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to maintain these principles without bias, and to do nothing out of partiality.

Deuteronomy 31:28 · BSB

Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officers so that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

Deuteronomy 32:1 · BSB

Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Isaiah 1:2 · BSB

Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

Jeremiah 2:12 · BSB

Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD.

“that I have”

Deuteronomy 30:15 Deuteronomy 11:26

Deuteronomy 30:15 · BSB

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

Deuteronomy 11:26 · BSB

See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse—

“choose life”

Psalm 119:30 Joshua 24:15–22 Proverbs 8:36 Luke 10:42 Psalm 119:173 Psalm 119:111

Psalm 119:30 · BSB

I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me.

Joshua 24:15–22 · BSB

But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you a…

Proverbs 8:36 · BSB

But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”

Luke 10:42 · BSB

But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”

Psalm 119:173 · BSB

May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.

Psalm 119:111 · BSB

Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

“that both thou”

Jeremiah 32:39 Acts 2:39

Jeremiah 32:39 · BSB

I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.

Acts 2:39 · BSB

This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

Also

Deuteronomy 30:1

Deuteronomy 30:1 · BSB

“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,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18I 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.

20and 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.”

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