Deuteronomy 30:17

Complete Jewish Bible

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;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But if your heart turns away and you do not listen and you are led astray to bow in worship to other gods and serve them,

Hebrew Names Version
But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

King James Version
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

Lexham English Bible
However, if your heart turns aside and you do not listen and you are lured away and you bow down to other gods and you serve them,

English Standard Version
But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,

New Century Version
But if you turn away from the Lord and do not obey him, if you are led to bow and serve other gods,

New English Translation
However, if you turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,

Amplified Bible
"But if your heart turns away and you will not hear and obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,

New American Standard Bible
"But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but allow yourself to be led astray and you worship other gods and serve them,

Geneva Bible (1587)
But if thine heart turne away, so that thou wilt not obey, but shalt be seduced and worship other gods, and serue them,

Legacy Standard Bible
But if your heart turns away and you will not listen, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,

Darby Translation
But if thy heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and thou shalt bow down to other gods and serve them;

Easy-to-Read Version
But if you turn away from your God and refuse to listen, if you are led away to worship and serve other gods,

George Lamsa Translation
But if your heart turns away, so that you will not hear, but shall go astray, and worship other gods and serve them;

Good News Translation
But if you disobey and refuse to listen, and are led away to worship other gods,

Literal Translation
But if you turn away your heart, and you do not listen, and are drawn on, even you will bow down to other gods, and serve them;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf thou turnest awaye thine hert, so that thou wilt not heare, but fall a waye, to worshipe other goddes and to serue them,

American Standard Version
But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

Bible in Basic English
But if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut, and you go after those who would make you servants and worshippers of other gods:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But and yf thine heart turne away, so that thou wylt not heare, but shalt go astray and worship straunge gods, and serue them:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

King James Version (1611)
But if thine heart turne away, so that thou wilt not heare, but shalt bee drawen away, and worship other gods and serue them:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But if thy heart change, and thou wilt not hearken, and thou shalt go astray and worship other gods, and serve them,

English Revised Version
But if thine heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

Berean Standard Bible
But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But if thin herte is turned awey, and thou nylt here, and thou art disseyued bi errour, and worschipist alien goddis,

Young's Literal Translation
`And if thy heart doth turn, and thou dost not hearken, and hast been driven away, and hast bowed thyself to other gods, and served them,

Update Bible Version
But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

Webster's Bible Translation
But if thy heart shall turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

World English Bible
But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

New King James Version
But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them,

New Living Translation
"But if your heart turns away and you refuse to listen, and if you are drawn away to serve and worship other gods,

New Life Bible
But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but leave to worship other gods and serve them,

New Revised Standard
But if your heart turns away and you do not hear, but are led astray to bow down to other gods and serve them,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, if thy heart shall turn away, and thou wilt, not hearken, - but shalt be drawn away, and shalt bow thyself down to other gods and serve them,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear, and being deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them:

Revised Standard Version
But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,

THE MESSAGE
But I warn you: If you have a change of heart, refuse to listen obediently, and willfully go off to serve and worship other gods, you will most certainly die. You won't last long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ (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 — ¹⁶ 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. ¹⁷ 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; ¹⁸ (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. ¹⁹ "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, ²⁰ 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

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

if thine: Deuteronomy 29:18-28, 1 Samuel 12:25, John 3:19-21

heart: Deuteronomy 17:17, 1 Kings 11:2, Proverbs 1:32, Proverbs 14:14, 2 Timothy 4:4, Hebrews 3:12, Hebrews 12:25

Reciprocal: Numbers 32:15 - if ye turn Deuteronomy 11:16 - and serve Deuteronomy 11:17 - the Lord's Joshua 22:15 - General Judges 6:13 - why then 2 Kings 22:16 - all the words 2 Chronicles 34:21 - great Ezra 9:7 - for our iniquities Jeremiah 11:8 - therefore Jeremiah 16:13 - will I Daniel 9:11 - the curse Daniel 9:27 - that determined Malachi 2:2 - ye will not hear

Cross-References

Genesis 30:6
Rachel said, "God has judged in my favor; indeed he has heard me and given me a son." Therefore she called him Dan [he judged].

Genesis 30:22
Then God took note of Rachel, heeded her prayer and made her fertile.

Genesis 30:26
Let me take my wives, for whom I have served you, and my children; and let me go. You know very well how faithfully I have served you."

Genesis 30:27
Lavan answered him, "If you regard me favorably, then please listen: I have observed the signs that Adonai has blessed me on account of you.

Exodus 3:7
Adonai said, "I have seen how my people are being oppressed in Egypt and heard their cry for release from their slavemasters, because I know their pain.

1 Samuel 1:20
She conceived; and in due time she gave birth to a son, whom she named Sh'mu'el, "because I asked Adonai for him."

Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Z'kharyah; because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elisheva will bear you a son, and you are to name him Yochanan.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But if thine heart turn away,.... From the true God, and the right worship of him, and from his commands, statutes, and judgments:

so that thou wilt not hear; the voice of the Lord and obey it, or hearken to his laws, and do them:

but shalt be drawn away; by an evil heart, and by the ill examples of others:

and worship other gods and serve them; the gods of the Gentiles, the idols of the people, besides the one living and true God, the God of Israel.

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.