Deuteronomy — Chapter 30

When all these things befall you—the blessing and the curse that I have set before you—and you take them to heart amidst the various nations to which the ETERNAL your God has banished you,

and you return to the ETERNAL your God, and you and your children heed God’s command with all your heart and soul, just as I enjoin upon you this day,

then the ETERNAL your God will restore your fortunes and take you back in love.atake you back in love As a householder readmits a former outcast back into his household. You will be brought together again from all the peoples where the ETERNAL your God has scattered you.

Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the world,bworld Lit. “sky.” from there the ETERNAL your God will gather you—from there you will be fetched.

And the ETERNAL your God will bring you to the land that your ancestors possessed, and you shall possess it; and you will be made more prosperous and more numerous than your ancestors.

Then the ETERNAL your God will open upcopen up Lit. “circumcise.” your heart and the hearts of your offspring—to love the ETERNAL your God with all your heart and soul, in order that you may live.

The ETERNAL your God will inflict all those curses upon the enemies and foes who persecuted you.

You, however, will again heed GOD and obey all the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day.

And the ETERNAL your God will grant you abounding prosperity in all your undertakings, in your issue from the womb, the offspring of your cattle, and your produce from the soil. For GOD will again delight in your well-being as in that of your ancestors,

since you will be heeding the ETERNAL your God and keeping the commandments and laws that are recorded in this book of the Teaching—once you return to the ETERNAL your God with all your heart and soul.

Surely, this Instruction that I enjoin upon you this day is not too baffling for you, nor is it beyond reach.

It is not in the heavens, that you should say, “Who among us can go up to the heavens and get it for us and impart it to us, that we may observe it?”

Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who among us can cross to the other side of the sea and get it for us and impart it to us, that we may observe it?”

No, the thing is very close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to observe it.

See, I set before you this day life and prosperity, death and adversity.

FordFor Septuagint reads “If you obey the commandments of the ETERNAL your God, which.” I command you this day, to love the ETERNAL your God, to walk in God’s ways, and to keep God’s commandments, laws, and rules—that you may thrive and increase, and that the ETERNAL your God may bless you in the land that you are about to enter and possess.

But if your heart turns away and you give no heed, and are lured into the worship and service of other gods,

I declare to you this day that you shall certainly perish; you shall not long endure on the soil that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day: I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life—if you and your offspring would live—

by loving the ETERNAL your God, by heeding God’s commands, and by holding fast to [God]. For thereby you shall have life and shall long endure upon the soil that GOD swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them.