Deuteronomy
Chapter Thirty
1 ¶ "Now it
shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the
curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations
where the LORD your God drives you,
2 "and you return to the LORD your God and obey His voice, according to
all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and
with all your soul,
3 "that the LORD your God will bring you back from captivity, and have
compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the LORD
your God has scattered you.
4 "If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from
there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you.
5 "Then the LORD your God will bring you to the land which your fathers
possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more
than your fathers.
6 "And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your
descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your
soul, that you may live.
7 "Also the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies and
on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
8 "And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and do all His commandments
which I command you today.
9 "The LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hand,
in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce
of your land for good. For the LORD will again rejoice over you for good as
He rejoiced over your fathers,
10 "if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments
and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn
to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
11 ¶ "For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious
for you, nor is it far off.
12 "It is not in heaven, that you should say, 'Who will ascend into heaven
for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?'
13 "Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who will go over the
sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?'
14 "But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that
you may do it.
15 ¶ "See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil,
16 "in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His
ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you
may live and multiply; and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which
you go to possess.
17 "But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn
away, and worship other gods and serve them,
18 "I announce to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not
prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to go in and possess.
19 "I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have
set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life,
that both you and your descendants may live;
20 "that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and
that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days;
and that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."
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