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Green's Literal Translation

Deuteronomy 30:11

For this command which I am commanding you today is not too wonderful for you, nor is it too far off.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Excuses;   Word of God;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Ascension of Jesus Christ;   Command, Commandment;   Life;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Quotations;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Grace;   Hard;   Hidden;   Salvation;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abdima (Dimi) Bar Hamar;   Debarim Rabbah;   Judaism;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for April 5;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
"For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.
Update Bible Version
For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.
English Revised Version
For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not too hard for thee, neither is it far off.
New Century Version
This command I give you today is not too hard for you; it is not beyond what you can do.
New English Translation
"This commandment I am giving you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it too remote.
Webster's Bible Translation
For this commandment which I command thee this day, it [is] not hid from thee, neither [is] it far off.
World English Bible
For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.
Amplified Bible
"For this commandment which I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This comaundement whiche Y comaunde to thee to day,
Young's Literal Translation
`For this command which I am commanding thee to-day, it is not too wonderful for thee, nor [is] it far off.
Berean Standard Bible
For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
Contemporary English Version
Moses said to Israel: You know God's laws, and it isn't impossible to obey them.
American Standard Version
For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not too hard for thee, neither is it far off.
Bible in Basic English
For these orders which I have given you today are not strange and secret, and are not far away.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the commaundement which I comaunde thee this day, is not hidden from thee, neither farre of.
Complete Jewish Bible
(LY: vi) For this mitzvah which I am giving you today is not too hard for you, it is not beyond your reach.
Darby Translation
For this commandment which I command thee this day is not too wonderful for thee, neither is it far off.
Easy-to-Read Version
"This command that I give you today is not too hard for you. It is not a secret hidden in some far away land.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not too hard for thee, neither is it far off.
King James Version (1611)
For this Commaundement which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it farre off.
New Life Bible
"For this Law I give you today is not too hard for you, or too far from you.
New Revised Standard
Surely, this commandment that I am commanding you today is not too hard for you, nor is it too far away.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For as touching this commandment, which I am commanding thee to-day, it is not, too wonderful, for thee, neither is it far off.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For this commandement which I commande thee this day, is not hid from thee, neither is it farre off.
George Lamsa Translation
For this commandment which I command you this day is not hidden from you, neither is it far off.
Good News Translation
"The command that I am giving you today is not too difficult or beyond your reach.
Douay-Rheims Bible
This commandment, that I command thee this day is not above thee, nor far off from thee:
Revised Standard Version
"For this commandment which I command you this day is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For this command which I give thee this day is not grievous, neither is it far from thee.
Christian Standard Bible®
“This command that I give you today is certainly not too difficult or beyond your reach.
Hebrew Names Version
For this mitzvah which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.
King James Version
For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
Lexham English Bible
"For this commandment that I am commanding you today is not too wonderful for you, and it is not too far from you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the commaundement which I commaunde ye this daye, is not to wonderfull for the, ner to farre,
THE MESSAGE
This commandment that I'm commanding you today isn't too much for you, it's not out of your reach. It's not on a high mountain—you don't have to get mountaineers to climb the peak and bring it down to your level and explain it before you can live it. And it's not across the ocean—you don't have to send sailors out to get it, bring it back, and then explain it before you can live it. No. The word is right here and now—as near as the tongue in your mouth, as near as the heart in your chest. Just do it!
New American Standard Bible
"For this commandment which I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it far away.
New King James Version
"For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off.
New Living Translation
"This command I am giving you today is not too difficult for you, and it is not beyond your reach.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach.
Legacy Standard Bible
"For this commandment which I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it far from you.

Contextual Overview

11 For this command which I am commanding you today is not too wonderful for you, nor is it too far off. 12 It is not in the heavens that you should say, Who shall go up into the heavens for us, and bring it to us, and cause us to hear it, that we may do it? 13 And it is not beyond the sea that you should say, Who shall cross over for us to the region beyond the sea and take it for us, and cause us to hear it, that we may do it? 14 For the Word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

it is not hidden: Or as the word niphlaith implies, not too wonderful for thee to comprehend or perform; but easily to be acquainted with, and understood, because clearly revealed: neither is it afar off; it was proclaimed in you ears from mount Sinai, and is now proclaimed in the sanctuary: it is not in heaven; for it has been already revealed: neither is it beyond the sea; that you need travel for instruction, as the ancient philosophers did, or seek instruction from men, at immense labour and expense; but the word is very nigh to thee; brought to thy very doors; in thy mouth, and in thy heart; made so familiar as to afford a topic of common discourse, that it might be laid up in the memory and reduced to practice. Psalms 147:19, Psalms 147:20, Isaiah 45:19, Romans 16:25, Romans 16:26, Colossians 1:26, Colossians 1:27

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 7:24 - General Luke 10:11 - notwithstanding Romans 10:6 - Say not

Cross-References

Genesis 30:20
And Leah said, God has given me a good present. This time my husband will live with me, because I have borne six sons to him. And she called his name Zebulun.
Genesis 30:21
And afterwards she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.
Genesis 35:26
And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's slave-girl: Gad and Asher. These were Jacob's sons who were born in Padan-aram.
Genesis 46:16
And the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
Genesis 49:19
Gad, a raiding band shall attack him, and he shall attack their heel.
Isaiah 65:11
But you are those who forsake Jehovah, who forget My holy mountain; who array a table for Fortune, and who fill mixed wine for Fate.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For this commandment which I command thee this day,.... Which the Jews understand of the law, but the Apostle Paul has taught us to interpret it of the word of faith, the Gospel preached by him and other ministers, Romans 10:6; which better suits with the context, and the prophecies before delivered concerning the conversion of the Jews, their reception of the Messiah, and his Gospel:

it [is] not hidden from thee; being clearly revealed, plainly and fully preached: if hidden from any, it is from them that are lost; from the wise and prudent, while it is revealed to babes, and given to them to know the mysteries of it: or too "wonderful" q; hard, difficult, and impossible; its doctrines, are not beyond the understanding of an enlightened person; they are all plain to them that understand and find the knowledge of them; and the ordinances of it are not too hard and difficult to be kept; the commandments of Christ are not grievous:

neither [is] it far off; for though it is good, news from a far country, from heaven, it is come down from thence; it is brought nigh in the ministry of the word to the ears and hearts of men.

q נפלאת "mirabile", Montanus, Cocceius.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 30:11. This commandment - is not hidden — Not too wonderful or difficult for thee to comprehend or perform, as the word niphleth implies. Neither is it far off - the word or doctrine of salvation shall be proclaimed in your own land; for HE is to be born in Bethlehem of Judah, who is to feed and save Israel; and the PROPHET who is to teach them is to be raised up from among their brethren.


 
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