Deuteronomy 30:19
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“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:”
חַי
Life, living. Chay. The quality of being alive. The same root as Chayim, life in its fullness. God breathed chay into Adam's nostrils and he became a living soul.
עוּד
I call as witnesses
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עוּד
to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify (as by reiteration); intensively, to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication)
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חָיָה
you may live
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חָיָה
To live, to revive, to preserve alive. Chayah. He revives my soul. God is in the business of revival. He breathes new life into what is dead.
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בְּרָכָה
Blessing
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בְּרָכָה
Blessing. Berakah. The empowering favour of God. Blessings are not just nice things. They are God actively enabling you to flourish.
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מַעַן
so that
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מַעַן
properly, heed, i.e. purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
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מָוֶת
Death
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מָוֶת
Death. Mavet. The cessation of life. But God holds the keys of death and promised resurrection to all who are in Him.
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נָתַן
I have set
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נָתַן
To give, to grant, to permit. Nathan. God is always giving. His hand is always open.
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