Deuteronomy 30:17
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New International Version (©2011)
But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

New Living Translation (©2007)
"But if your heart turns away and you refuse to listen, and if you are drawn away to serve and worship other gods,

English Standard Version (©2001)
But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But if your heart turns away and you do not listen and you are led astray to bow down to other gods and worship them,

International Standard Version (©2012)
But if you turn your heart away, and do not obey, but instead if you stray away to worship and serve other gods,

NET Bible (©2006)
However, if you turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But your hearts might turn away, and you might not listen. You might be tempted to bow down to other gods and worship them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But if your heart turns away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

American King James Version
But if your heart turn away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

American Standard Version
But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear, and being deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them:

Darby Bible Translation
But if thy heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and thou shalt bow down to other gods and serve them;

English Revised Version
But if thine heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

Webster's Bible Translation
But if thy heart shall turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

World English Bible
But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

Young's Literal Translation
'And if thy heart doth turn, and thou dost not hearken, and hast been driven away, and hast bowed thyself to other gods, and served them,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

30:15-20 What could be said more moving, and more likely to make deep and lasting impressions? Every man wishes to obtain life and good, and to escape death and evil; he desires happiness, and dreads misery. So great is the compassion of the Lord, that he has favoured men, by his word, with such a knowledge of good and evil as will make them for ever happy, if it be not their own fault. Let us hear the sum of the whole matter. If they and theirs would love God, and serve him, they should live and be happy. If they or theirs should turn from God, desert his service, and worship other gods, that would certainly be their ruin. There never was, since the fall of man, more than one way to heaven; which is marked out in both Testaments, though not with equal clearness. Moses meant that same way of acceptance, which Paul more plainly described; and Paul's words mean the same obedience, on which Moses more fully treated. In both Testaments the good and right way is brought near, and plainly revealed to us.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But if thine heart turn away,.... From the true God, and the right worship of him, and from his commands, statutes, and judgments:

so that thou wilt not hear; the voice of the Lord and obey it, or hearken to his laws, and do them:

but shalt be drawn away; by an evil heart, and by the ill examples of others:

and worship other gods and serve them; the gods of the Gentiles, the idols of the people, besides the one living and true God, the God of Israel.

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The Choice of Life or Death
…16In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that you may live and multiply: and the LORD your God shall bless you in the land where you go to possess it. 17But if your heart turn away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish, and that you shall not prolong your days on the land, where you pass over Jordan to go to possess it. …

Numbers 32:15 If you turn away from following him, he will again leave all this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction."
Deuteronomy 30:16 For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
Deuteronomy 30:18 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.