Deuteronomy 30

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1 When all these words come upon you, the blessing and cursing that I have set before you, and you will take them to your heart among all the nations in which the Lord your God will scatter you,
2 And you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice, as I command you today, you and your sons with all your heart and with all your soul,
3 Then the Lord your God will restore your captives and have compassion on you, and again he will gather you from all the nations between whom the Lord your God will scatter you.
4 Though you were scattered to the end of the sky, and from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you,
5 And the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and receive her for a possession, and she will give thee favor, and multiply thee more than thy fathers;
6th And the Lord thy God shall circumcise thy heart and the heart of thy seed, that thou mayest love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
7th Then the Lord your God will turn all these curses against your enemies and those who hate you, who persecuted you,
8 But you turn and will listen to the voice of the Lord and obey all His commandments, which I command you today;
9 The Lord your God will give you abundant success in every work of your hands, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your cattle, in the fruit of your land; For again the Lord will rejoice over you, doing good, as He rejoiced over your fathers,
10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which are written in this book of the law, and if thou return unto the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

eleven For this commandment which I command you this day is not inaccessible to you and is not far off;
12 She is not in heaven, so that you can say: "Who would go up to heaven for us and bring it to us, and let us hear it, and we would fulfill it?"
13 And not beyond the sea, so that you can say: "Who would come to us for the sea and bring it to us, and let us hear it, and we would fulfill it?"
14 But this word is very near to you: in your mouth and in your heart, to do it.

15 Now, today I offered you life and good, death and evil.
16 [I] which I command thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments and his statutes and his laws, then you will live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you go to take possession of Her;
17th If your heart turns away, and you do not listen, and you lose your way, and you worship other gods and serve them,
18 Then I tell you today that you will perish and not stay long on earth, for the mastery of which you cross the Jordan.
19 As witnesses before you, I call heaven and earth today: life and death I offered you, a blessing and a curse. Choose life, so that you and your offspring can live,
20 You loved the Lord your God, listened to his voice, and stuck to him; For this is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give to them.

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