Deuteronomy 30
Restoration Promised
1“So it shall be when all of these things have come upon you, athe blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you ▼▼ Lit cause them to return to your heart
call them to mind cin all nations where the Lord your God has banished you, 2and you dreturn to the Lord your God and ▼▼ Lit listen to His voice
obey Him fwith all your heart and soul according to all that I command you today, you and your sons, 3then the Lord your God will grestore ▼▼ Lit your captivity
you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and iwill gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has jscattered you. 4“If your outcasts are at the ends of the ▼▼ Lit sky
earth, lfrom there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will ▼▼ Lit take you
bring you back. 5 n“The Lord your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will prosper you and omultiply you more than your fathers. 6“Moreover pthe Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your ▼▼ Lit seed
descendants, rto love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live. 7 s“The Lord your God will ▼▼ Lit put
inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. 8“And you shall again ▼▼ Lit listen to the voice of
obey the Lord, and observe all His commandments which I command you today. 9 v“Then the Lord your God will ▼▼ Lit make you have excess for good
prosper you abundantly in all the work of your hand, in the ▼▼ Lit fruit
offspring of your ▼▼ Lit womb
body and in the ▼▼ Lit fruit
offspring of your cattle and in the ▼▼ Lit fruit
produce of your ground, for abthe Lord will again rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers; 10 ▼▼ Or for you will
if you ▼▼ Lit listen to the voice of
obey the Lord your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which aeare written in this book of the law, ▼▼ Or for you will
if you turn to the Lord your God agwith all your heart and soul. 11“For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it ▼▼ Lit far off
out of reach. 12“It is not in heaven, ▼▼ Lit to say
that you should say, ‘ ajWho will go up to heaven for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?’ 13“Nor is it beyond the sea, ▼▼ Lit to say
that you should say, ‘Who will cross the sea for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?’ 14“But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it. Choose Life
15“See, alI have set before you today life and ▼▼ Lit good
prosperity, and death and ▼▼ Lit evil
adversity; 16in that I command you today aoto love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you apmay live and multiply, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it. 17“But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them, 18I declare to you today that aqyou shall surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter ▼▼ Lit to
and possess it. 19 as“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, atthe blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your ▼▼ Lit seed
descendants, 20 avby loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and awby holding fast to Him; axfor ▼▼ Lit that
this is your life and the length of your days, ▼▼ Lit to dwell
that you may live in bathe land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”
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