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Deuteronomy 30:13

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11 For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.

12 It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’

And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’

14 But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.

15 See, I have set before you today life and goodness, as well as death and disaster.

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BSB
And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
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?
WEB
Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who will go over the sea for us, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?”
ASV
Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?
DARBY
And it is not beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, that we should hear it and do it?
BLB
Nor [is] it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go for us to beyond the sea and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’
ÅB
Det er heller ikke på den andre side av havet, så du måtte si: Hvem vil fare over havet for oss og hente det til oss og la oss høre det, så vi kan gjøre etter det?
OTB
Det er heller ikke bortenfor havet, så du må spørre, ‘Hvem vil krysse havet for å hente det og forkynne det for oss så vi kan følge det?’
B1930
Det er heller ikke på den andre side av havet, så du måtte si: Hvem vil fare over havet for oss og hente det til oss og la oss høre det, så vi kan gjøre efter det?

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • John 6:27

    Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”

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  • Proverbs 2:1–5

    My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

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  • Proverbs 8:11

    For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire compares with her.

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  • Romans 10:14–15

    How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach?

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  • Acts 10:33

    So I sent for you immediately, and you were kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has instructed you to tell us.”

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  • Matthew 12:42

    The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.

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  • Proverbs 16:6

    By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.

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  • Acts 8:27–40

    So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,

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