Deuteronomy 30

¹ And when all these words come true for you, the blessing and the curse I have set before you, if you meditate on them in your heart wherever among the nations Yahweh your God drives you,

² if you return to Yahweh your God, if you obey his voice with all your heart and soul in everything I enjoin on you today, you and your children,

³ then Yahweh your God will bring back your captives, he will have pity on you and gather you once again out of all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.

⁴ Had you wandered to the ends of the heavens, Yahweh your God would gather you even from there, would come there to reclaim you

⁵ and bring you back to the land your fathers possessed, that you in your turn might make it your own, prospering there and increasing even more than your fathers.

⁶ ‘Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, until you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and soul, and so have life.

⁷ Yahweh your God will make all these curses recoil on your foes and on your enemies who have persecuted you.

⁸ And once again you will obey the voice of Yahweh your God and keep all those commandments of his that I enjoin on you today.

⁹ Yahweh your God will give you great prosperity in all your undertakings, in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your cattle and in the produce of your soil. For once again Yahweh will take delight in your prosperity as he took delight in the prosperity of your fathers,

¹⁰ if only you obey the voice of Yahweh your God, keeping those commandments and laws of his that are written in the Book of this Law, and if you return to Yahweh your God with all your heart and soul.

¹¹ ‘For this Law that I enjoin on you today is not beyond your strength or beyond your reach.

¹² It is not in heaven, so that you need to wonder, “Who will go up to heaven for us and bring it down to us, so that we may hear it and keep it?”

¹³ Nor is it beyond the seas, so that you need to wonder, “Who will cross the seas for us and bring it back to us, so that we may hear it and keep it?”

¹⁴ No, the Word is very near to you, it is in your mouth and in your heart for your observance.

¹⁵ ‘See, today I set before you life and prosperity, death and disaster.

¹⁶ If you obey the commandments of Yahweh your God that I enjoin on you today, if you love Yahweh your God and follow his ways, if you keep his commandments, his laws, his customs, you will live and increase, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the land which you are entering to make your own.

¹⁷ But if your heart strays, if you refuse to listen, if you let yourself be drawn into worshipping other gods and serving them,

¹⁸ I tell you today, you will most certainly perish; you will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

¹⁹ I call heaven and earth to witness against you today: I set before you life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live,

²⁰ in the love of Yahweh your God, obeying his voice, clinging to him; for in this your life consists, and on this depends your long stay in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob he would give them.’