“Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:
Parallel translations
- WEB Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:
- KJV Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
- BSB See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse—
- NASB “See, I am placing before you today a blessing and a curse:
- NLT “Look, today I am giving you the choice between a blessing and a curse!
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Quick answer
Moses sets before Israel a clear choice of blessing or curse. Their response to God's word would determine their destiny.
Overview
Moses presents the covenant as a decisive choice between blessing and curse. The stark alternatives press the seriousness of obeying or rejecting God. This either-or echoes throughout Scripture and finds its resolution in Christ, who bore the curse so His people might receive the blessing.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Deut 30:15–20Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.
- Deut 30:1It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,
- Gal 3:10For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
- Gal 3:13–14Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
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Christ at the center
Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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