Deuteronomy 30:1

The Results of Covenant Reaffirmation

30:1 “When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses ¹  I have set before you, you will reflect upon them ²  in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.

Deuteronomy 30:15-20

30:15 “Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other. 30:16 What ³  I am commanding you today is to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess. ⁴  30:17 However, if you ⁵  turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods, 30:18 I declare to you this very day that you will certainly ⁶  perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess. ⁷  30:19 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! 30:20 I also call on you ⁸  to love the Lord your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continually ⁹  in the land the Lord promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Galatians 3:10

3:10 For all who ¹⁰  rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.” ¹¹ 

Galatians 3:13-14

3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming ¹²  a curse for us (because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”) ¹³  3:14 in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, ¹⁴  so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

[30:1]  ¹ tn Heb “the blessing and the curse.”

[30:1]  ² tn Heb “and you bring (them) back to your heart.”

[30:16]  ³ tc A number of LXX mss insert before this verse, “if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God,” thus translating אֲשֶׁר (’asher) as “which” and the rest as “I am commanding you today, to love,” etc., “then you will live,” etc.

[30:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “which you are going there to possess it.” This has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[30:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “your heart,” as a metonymy for the person.

[30:18]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “certainly.”

[30:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “to go there to possess it.”

[30:20]  ⁸ tn The words “I also call on you” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text vv. 19-20 are one long sentence, which the translation divides into two.

[30:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “he is your life and the length of your days to live.”

[3:10]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “For as many as.”

[3:10]  ¹¹ tn Grk “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things written in the book of the law, to do them.”

[3:13]  ¹² tn Grk “having become”; the participle γενόμενος (genomenos) has been taken instrumentally.

[3:13]  ¹³ sn A quotation from Deut 21:23. By figurative extension the Greek word translated tree (ζύλον, zulon) can also be used to refer to a cross (L&N 6.28), the Roman instrument of execution.

[3:14]  ¹⁴ tn Or “so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus.”