Deuteronomy 30:1 Cross References - Thomson

¹ therefore when all these things have come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee; and thou shalt receive them into thy heart, among all the nations where the Lord may have dispersed thee;

¹⁴ If thou castest me out this day from the face of this land and I be hid from thy presence and be in a state of anguish and terror in the land, it will come to pass that whoever findeth me will kill me."

¹ I am the Lord your God; you shall not make for yourselves carved or graven images, nor set up a pillar for yourselves, nor place a watch stone in your land to worship it. I am the Lord your God, ² you shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my holy things. I am the Lord; ³ if you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them, ⁴ I will give you rain in its season: and the land shall yield its productions; ⁵ and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit; and the thresher shall overtake the vintager; and the vintager shall overtake the sower; and you shall eat your bread in plenty; and dwell in your land securely, and war shall not pass through your land. ⁶ I will indeed give you peace in your land; and you shall lie down to rest; and there shall be none to make you afraid. I will destroy the wild beasts out of your land; ⁷ and you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you with destruction. ⁸ Even five of you shall pursue an hundred; and a hundred of you shall pursue myriads, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. ⁹ And I will watch over you, and increase you, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. ¹⁰ And you shall eat the last year's crops, and the crops of the year before, and remove old stores out of the way of new. ¹¹ And I will fix my tabernacle among you, and my soul will not abhor you. ¹² And I will walk about among you, and be your God, and you shall be my people. ¹³ I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. When you were slaves, I broke the bond of your yoke, and led you out in confidence: ¹⁴ Now if you will not hearken to me, nor perform these my commandments, ¹⁵ but disobey them, and your souls abhor my judgments, so as not to perform all my commandments, so as to break my covenant, ¹⁶ I will deal with you in this manner; I will send against you distress, and the scab, and the gangrene to eat out your eyes; and wasting consumption; and you shall sow your seed in vain; for your enemies shall eat it: ¹⁷ and I will set my face against you; and you shall fall before your enemies; and they who hate you shall pursue you; and you shall flee when there is none pursuing you. ¹⁸ And if for all this you will not hearken to me, I will proceed to chastise you seven fold for your offences, ¹⁹ and break the haughtiness of your pride.; I will make the heaven for you as iron, and your land as brass; ²⁰ and your strength shall be spent in vain. The earth shall not yield you its seed, nor shall the trees of the field yield you their fruit. ²¹ And after all these things, if you walk adversely and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven fold plagues upon you according to your sins; ²² I will send against you the wild beasts of the earth, and they shall devour you, and destroy your cattle; and I will make you few in number, and your high ways shall be desolate. ²³ And if by these things you be not reformed, but walk adversely before me, ²⁴ I also will walk with you in adverse wrath, and smite you seven fold for your sins; ²⁵ I will bring a sword against you to avenge the cause of the covenant; and when you flee to your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies. ²⁶ In your affliction for want of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you shall eat, but shall not be satisfied. ²⁷ And if for these things you will not hearken to me, but walk adversely before me, ²⁸ I also will walk with you in adverse ire, and chastise you seven fold, according to your sins. ²⁹ And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of your daughters also you shall eat: ³⁰ and I will lay waste your pillars, and utterly destroy your carved images of wood, and cast your mangled limbs among the mangled limbs of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. ³¹ And I will lay waste your cities, and make your sanctuaries a desolation, and no longer be regaled with the smell of your sacrifices. ³² I will also make your land a desolation, and your enemies who dwell therein shall be astonished at it. ³³ And I will scatter you among the nations, and a sword shall overtake and consume you. And your land shall be a waste, and your cities a desolation. ³⁴ And the land shall then enjoy its sabbaths all the time of its desolation. When you shall be in the land of your enemies, the land shall then rest; and the land shall keep those sabbaths, ³⁵ which it did not keep by your sabbaths when you dwelt therein. ³⁶ And upon those of you who are left, I will bring a slavery, which shall reach their very hearts, in the land of their enemies. The sound of a leaf driven by the wind will scare them; and they shall flee like those who flee from a battle, and shall fall when none pursueth. ³⁷ And brother shall overlook brother as in a battle, though none attacketh; and you shall not be able to withstand your enemies. ³⁸ And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall devour you. ³⁹ And those of you who are left shall pine away for their sins, and for the sins of their fathers; In the land of their enemies they shall pine away, ⁴⁰ and confess their sins and the sins of their fathers, that they have transgressed, and neglected me, and that they have walked perversely before me, ⁴¹ and I have walked with them in vengeful ire. When I am destroying them in the land of their enemies, then will their uncircumcised heart be ashamed, and then will they bear their sins with humble submission; ⁴² whereupon I will call to remembrance the covenant with Jacob, and the covenant with Isaak, and I will call to remembrance the covenant with Abraham, and remember the land. ⁴³ When the land shall be forsaken by them, and when the land shall have enjoyed its sabbaths by being made a waste on their account, and they have borne their iniquities because they neglected my judgments, and in their hearts abhorred my statutes, ⁴⁴ [as I did not, when they were in their enemies' country, wholly overlook them, nor abhor them so as to destroy them utterly, for breaking my covenant which I made with them, for I am the Lord their God] ⁴⁵ then will I remember the covenant with them; that old covenant when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage, to be their God. I am the Lord; ⁴⁶ These are my judgments, and these are my statutes, and this is the law which the Lord hath given between himself and the children of Israel, at mount Sina, by the ministration of Moses.

²⁹ Yet there, on seeking the Lord your God you will find him, when you seek him with your whole heart and with your whole soul; ³⁰ In thy affliction, when all these things have come upon thee in the latter days, when thou shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and hearken to his voice;

²⁶ Behold I am going to lay before you this day the blessing and the curse; ²⁷ the blessing, if you will hearken to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I this day command you; ²⁸ and the curse, if you will not hearken to the commandments of the Lord our God, in all respects, as I this day command you; but turn aside out of the way to which I have enjoined you, and go to serve other gods, which you do not know.

¹ Again Moses, with the senate of Israel, gave a charge, saying, You shall keep all these commandments which I this day command you. ² When you have crossed the Jordan, into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee; thou shalt set up for thyself large stones, and plaister them with mortar, ³ and thou shalt write on those stones all the words of this law. Soon as you have crossed the Jordan; when you are come to the land which the Lord the God of thy fathers giveth thee; a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord the God of thy fathers promised thee, ⁴ you shall, immediately after your crossing the Jordan, set up these stones, which I this day command thee, at mount Garizin, and thou shalt plaister them with mortar, ⁵ and build there an altar to the Lord thy God; an altar of stones. Thou shalt not lift up a tool upon it. ⁶ Of unwrought stones thou shalt build the altar to the Lord thy God, and offer upon it whole burnt offerings to the Lord thy God. ⁷ Then thou shalt offer there a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and when thou hast eaten, and art filled, and hast rejoiced before the Lord thy God; ⁸ then thou shalt write upon the stones all this law, in the plainest manner. ⁹ Then Moses with the priests, the Levites, spoke to all Israel, saying, Be silent and hear, O Israel. Thou art this day made a people for the Lord thy God; ¹⁰ therefore thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and perform all his commandments, and his rules of rectitude, which I this day command thee. ¹¹ Then Moses gave a charge to the people that day, saying, ¹² Having crossed the Jordan, these shall stand on mount Garizin to bless the people; Symeon, Levi, Judas, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. ¹³ And these shall stand at the curse on mount Gaibal, Reuben, Gad, and Aser, Zabulon, Dan, and Nephthaleim: ¹⁴ and the Levites shall address all Israel, and say with a loud voice, ¹⁵ Cursed the man who shall make a graven, or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of artists; though he set it up in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen. ¹⁶ Cursed he who slighteth his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. ¹⁷ Cursed he who removeth his neighbour's land mark. And all the people shall say, Amen. ¹⁸ Cursed he who leadeth the blind out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen. ¹⁹ Cursed he who perverteth the judgment of the stranger, or the orphan, or the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²⁰ Cursed he who lieth with his father's wife, because he hath uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²¹ Cursed he who lieth with any beast. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²² Cursed he who lieth with his sister, by the same father, or mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²³ Cursed he who lieth with his daughter in law. And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed he who lieth with the sister of his wife. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²⁴ Cursed he who smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²⁵ Cursed he who taketh bribes to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²⁶ Cursed be every man who will not persevere in all the words of this law, to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

⁶⁴ And the Lord thy God will scatter thee among all the nations, from one extremity of the earth to the other; and thou shalt there serve other gods; stocks and stones, which neither thou, nor thy fathers have known.

¹⁸ is there any man among you, or any woman, or family, or tribe, whose understanding hath turned them from the Lord your God, to go and serve the gods of those nations? Is there any such root among you, springing up for gall and bitterness? ¹⁹ Now in case any one shall hear the words of this curse, and bless himself in his heart, saying, Good luck betide me! I will walk in the error of my own heart, that the sinner may not involve the guiltless in ruin with himself. ²⁰ God will not be propitious to him, but most assuredly the anger of the Lord, and his indignation, will then be kindled against that man; and all the curses of this covenant, which are written in this book, shall cleave to him; and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹ The Lord will indeed separate him, from all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of this covenant, which are written in this book of the law. ²² And when the generations to come; your children who shall rise up after yon, and the stranger who may come from a far distant country, will say; when they shall see the plagues of that land, and the diseases thereof, which the Lord hath sent upon it; ²³ brimstone and burnt salt; when through the whole land there shall be no sowing; no natural productions, no verdure on it, a destruction like that of Sodom and Gomorra, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew with wrath and indignation;

²⁸ and the Lord rooted them out from their land, with wrath, and anger, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land, as at this day.

¹⁵ Behold I have this day set before thee Life and Death, Good and Evil.

¹⁹ I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that I have set Life and Death, the Blessing and the Curse before you. Chuse thou life, that thou and thy seed may live,

⁴⁷ and they bethink themselves in the land to which they have been carried captives, and in the land of their captivity repent and pray to thee, saying, We have sinned; we have transgressed; we have committed iniquity; ⁴⁸ and turn to thee with their whole heart, and with their whole soul, in the land of their enemies, to which thou hast transported them; and direct their prayers to thee, toward this land which thou gavest to their fathers, and this city which thou hast chosen, and this house which I have built for thy name;

⁸ Remember these things and groan; reform, ye who have been led astray: return with the heart

³ [because they chose death rather than life] even to all the residue left of that generation, in every place whither I shall drive them.

²⁸ He hath turned away from all his wicked acts which he committed; he shall surely live; he shall not die.

¹⁷ At length, coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, while I am perishing with hunger?