King James Version
Deuteronomy 30:15 in the King James Version says “See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 30 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;”
Deuteronomy 30:15 · KJV
Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
KJV Study — Public Domain
“See”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
“I have set”
H5414to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“thee this day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“life”
H2416alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and good”
H2896good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and death”
H4194death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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