Deuteronomy 30
The Results of Covenant Reaffirmation
1 “When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the cursest I have set before you, you will reflect upon themt in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.2 Then if you and your descendantst turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and beingt just ast I am commanding you today,3 the Lord your God will reverse your captivity and have pity on you. He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom het has scattered you.4 Even if your exiles are in the most distant land,t from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back.5 Then het will bring you to the land your ancestorst possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.6 The Lord your God will also cleanset your heart and the hearts of your descendantst so that you may love himt with all your mind and being and so that you may live.7 Then the Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.8 You will return and obey the Lord, keeping all his commandments I am givingt you today.9 The Lord your God will make the labor of your handss abundantly successful and multiply your children,t the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the Lord your God will once moret rejoice over you to make you prosperoust just as he rejoiced over your ancestors,
10 if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this scroll of the law. But you must turn to himt with your whole mind and being.
Exhortation to Covenant Obedience
11 “This commandment I am givingt you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it too remote.12 It is not in heaven, as though one must say, “Who will go up to heaven to get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”13 And it is not across the sea, as though one must say, “Who will cross over to the other side of the sea and get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”
14 For the thing is very near you – it is in your mouth and in your mindt so that you can do it.
15 “Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other.16 Whats I am commanding you today is to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess.t17 However, if yout turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,18 I declare to you this very day that you will certainlyt perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.t19 Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!
20 I also call on yout to love the Lord your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continuallyt in the land the Lord promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
Deuteronomy 30
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 Jehovah thy God hath driven thee,2 and shalt return unto Jehovah thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul;3 that then Jehovah thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the peoples, whither Jehovah thy God hath scattered thee.4 If any of thine outcasts be in the uttermost parts of heaven, from thence will Jehovah thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:5 and Jehovah 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 Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.7 And Jehovah thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, that persecuted thee.8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of Jehovah, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.9 And Jehovah thy God will make thee plenteous in all the work of thy hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, for good: for Jehovah will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers;10 if thou shalt obey the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if thou turn unto Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not too hard for 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, and make us to hear it, that we may 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, and make us to hear it, that we may 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 Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that thou mayest live and multiply, and that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.17 But if thy heart turn away, and 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; ye shall not prolong your days in the land, whither thou passest 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 thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed;20 to love Jehovah thy God, to obey his voice, and to cleave unto him; for he is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.