Chapter 30
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And it will be that when all these words—the blessing and the curse that I have set before you—come upon you, and you bring them to heart among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,
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and you return to the LORD your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your sons, with all your heart and with all your nephesh.
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And the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and return and gather you from all the peoples where the LORD your God scattered you there.
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If you are banished to the end of the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there he will take you.
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And the LORD your God will bring you to the land that your fathers possessed, and you will possess it; and he will make it good for you and multiply you more than your fathers.
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And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, for the sake of your life.
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And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who pursued you.
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And you shall return and obey the voice of the LORD and do all his commandments that I am commanding you today.
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And the LORD your God will make you abound in every work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your land for good, for the LORD will return to rejoice over you for good just as he rejoiced over your fathers.
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if you will hear the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in the book of this Torah, if you will return to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
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For this commandment that I am commanding you today is not too wondrous for you; it is not far away.
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It is not in heaven, that you should say, "Who will ascend for us to heaven, take it for us, and make us hear it, so that we will do it?"
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nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, "Who will cross over for us to the other side of the sea and take it for us and make us hear it so that we will do it?"
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For the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.
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See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.
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which I am commanding you today, to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, and you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you are going there to possess.
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And if your heart turns away and you do not listen and you are led away and you bow down to other gods and serve them.
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I have told you today that you will perish—you will perish; you will not prolong your days upon the land which you are crossing the Jordan to come there to possess it.
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I have set before you today the heavens and the earth; life and death I have set before you, the blessing and the curse, and you shall choose life so that you live, you and your seed.
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to love the LORD your God, to listen to his voice, and to cling to him, for he is your life and the length of your days, to dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them.