📜WEB · Deuteronomy 30:17
What does Deuteronomy 30:17 mean?
"But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;"
— Deuteronomy 30:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.
For I command you today to love Yahweh 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 Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
I denounce 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.
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;
to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
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