“1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon
thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou
shalt call [them] to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy
God hath driven thee, 2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and
shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou
and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; 3 That
then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon
thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the
LORD thy God hath scattered thee. 4 If [any] of thine be driven out unto
the outmost [parts] of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather
thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: 5 And the LORD thy God will
bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt
possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy
fathers. 6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the
heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and
with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. 7 And the LORD thy God will
put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee,
which persecuted thee. 8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the
LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. 9 And
the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand,
in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the
fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee
for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: 10 If thou shalt hearken unto
the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes
which are written in this book of the law, [and] if thou turn unto the
LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.”
“11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it [is] not
hidden from thee, neither [is] it far off. 12 It [is] not in heaven,
that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it
unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 13 Neither [is] it beyond the
sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and
bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 14 But the word [is]
very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do
it.”
“15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and
evil; 16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to
walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his
judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God
shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 17 But if
thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn
away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce unto you
this day, that ye shall surely perish, [and that] ye shall not prolong
[your] days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to
possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you,
[that] I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing:
therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20 That
thou mayest love the LORD thy God, [and] that thou mayest obey his
voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he [is] thy life, and
the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the
LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give
them.” (Deuteronomy 30:1-20 AV)
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