1 It shall happen, when all these things are come on you, the
blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them
to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you, 2 and
shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice according to all
that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and
with all your soul; 3 that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity,
and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the
peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you. 4 If any of your
outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will Yahweh
your God gather you, and from there will he bring you back: 5 and Yahweh
your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you
shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your
fathers. 6 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of
your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your
soul, that you may live. 7 Yahweh your God will put all these curses on
your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. 8 You shall
return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his commandments which I
command you this day. 9 Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the
work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your
cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again
rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers; 10 if you
shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his
statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh
your God with all your heart, and with all your soul. 11 For this
commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither
is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go
up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may
do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go
over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may
do it? 14 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your
heart, that you may do it. 15 Behold, I have set before you this day life
and good, and death and evil; 16 in that I command you this day to love
Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his
statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh
your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it. 17 But
if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and
worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce to you this day, that
you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the
land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it. 19 I call
heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you
life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you
may live, you and your seed; 20 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his
voice, and to cleave to him; for he is your life, and the length of your
days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
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