Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life
New American Standard Bible
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:
International Standard Version
I call heaven and earth to testify against you today! I've set life and death before you today: both blessings and curses. Choose life, that it may be well with you you and your children.
A Conservative 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 may live, thou and thy seed,
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;
Amplified
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore, you shall choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,
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:
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,
Julia Smith Translation
I called to witness against you this day the heavens and the earth, the life and the death I gave before thee, the blessing and the curse: and choose upon life, so that thou shalt live, thou and thy seed:
King James 2000
I call heaven and earth as witness this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live:
Lexham Expanded Bible
I invoke as a witness against you {today} the heaven and the earth: life and death I have set {before you}, blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring,
Modern King James verseion
I call Heaven and earth to record today against you. I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life, so that both you and your seed may live,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I take heaven and earth this day to record over you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. But choose life, that thou and thy seed may live;
NET Bible
Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!
New Heart English Bible
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
The Emphasized Bible
I call to witness against you to-day, the heavens and the earth, that life and death, have I set before thee, the blessing and the curse, - therefore shouldest thou choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed;
Webster
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 this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
Youngs 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,
Themes
Choice » Wise choice, examples of » To choose between God and evil
Choosing/chosen » The reward for choosing life
Christian ministers » Faithful » Instances of » moses
Cleaving » Cleaving to the lord
Topics
Interlinear
Yowm
Nathan
Paniym
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 30:19
Prayers for Deuteronomy 30:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Choose Between Life And Death
18
I tell you today that you will certainly perish and will not live long in the land you are entering to possess across the Jordan.
19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life
Cross References
Deuteronomy 30:1
“When all these things happen to you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you come to your senses while you are in all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,
Proverbs 8:36
all who hate me love death.”
Deuteronomy 4:26
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will quickly perish
Deuteronomy 11:26
“Look, today I set before you a blessing and a curse:
Deuteronomy 30:15
See, today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and adversity.
Deuteronomy 31:28
Assemble all your tribal elders and officers before me so that I may speak these words directly to them and call heaven and earth as witnesses against them.
Deuteronomy 32:1
listen, earth, to the words of my mouth.
Joshua 24:15-22
But if it doesn’t please you to worship Yahweh, choose for yourselves today the one you will worship: the gods your fathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living.
Psalm 119:30
I have set Your ordinances before me.
Jeremiah 2:12-13
be shocked and utterly appalled.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Jeremiah 22:29-30
hear the word of the Lord!
Jeremiah 32:39
I will give them one heart
Micah 6:1-2
Now listen to what the Lord is saying:
and let the hills hear your voice.
Luke 10:42
Acts 2:39
For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off,
1 Timothy 5:21
I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to observe
Psalm 119:111
indeed, they are the joy of my heart.
Psalm 119:173
for I have chosen Your precepts.
Proverbs 1:29
didn’t choose to fear the Lord,
Isaiah 1:2
for the Lord has spoken:
“I have raised children
but they have rebelled against Me.
Isaiah 56:4
“For the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,
and choose what pleases Me,
and hold firmly to My covenant,