John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 30:16

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, etc.] Which is the sum and substance of the first table of the law, and includes the whole worship of God, the contrary to which are idolatry, superstition, and will worship, from which Moses had been dissuading and deterring them: to walk in his ways; which he has prescribed, as his will to walk in, and his law directs to: and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments; his laws, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, Moses had been repeating and reciting: that thou mayest live and multiply; live in the land of Canaan, and have a numerous offspring and posterity to succeed and continue in it, which is confirmed by what follows: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it; with health and happiness, with an affluence of all good things, in the land of Canaan they were just entering into to take possession of.

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