Deuteronomy 30

CLV(i) 1 It will come to be, when all these things come on you, the blessing and the malediction which I put before you, that you will recall them to your heart among all the nations where Yahweh your Elohim will have expelled yo. 2 and that you will return again to Yahweh your Elohim and hearken to His voice according to all that I am instructing you today, you and your sons, with all your heart and with all your soul. 3 Then Yahweh your Elohim will turn back your captivity and show compassion to you; He will return and convene you from all the peoples where Yahweh your Elohim will have scattered you. 4 If it comes to be that you should be expelled to the end of the heavens, from there Yahweh your Elohim shall convene you, and from there He shall take you. 5 Then Yahweh your Elohim will bring you to the land that your fathers tenanted; you will tenant it, and He will bring you good and let you increase more than your fathers. 6 Yahweh your Elohim will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed so as to love Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may stay alive. 7 Then Yahweh your Elohim will put all these imprecations on your enemies and on those hating you, who persecute you. 8 As for you, you shall return, and you will hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim; you will obey all His instructions that I am enjoining on you today. 9 Then Yahweh your Elohim will give you surplus in goods through all the work of your hand, through the fruit of your belly, the fruit of your domestic beast and the fruit of your ground, for Yahweh shall return to be elated over you for good, just as He was elated over your fathers, 10 in case you should hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim to observe His instructions and His statutes, the ones written in this scroll of the law, in case you should return to Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul. 11 For this instruction that I am enjoining on you today, it is neither too difficult for you, nor is it too far off. 12 It is neither in the heavens for you to say:Who shall ascend to the heavens for us and take it for us and announce it to us that we may obey it? 13 Nor is it across the sea for you to say:Who shall cross across the sea for us and take it for us and announce it to us that we may obey it? 14 For the word is exceedingly near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to obey it. 15 See! I put before you today life and good, death and evil. 16 In case you should hearken to the instructions of Yahweh your Elohim that I am enjoining on you today, to love Yahweh your Elohim, to walk in His ways and to observe His instructions, His statutes and His judgments, then you will live and multiply, and Yahweh your Elohim will bless you in the land where you are entering to tenant it. 17 Yet should your heart turn around, and you are not hearkening, and you are induced to bow yourself down to other elohim and serve them, 18 I tell you today that you shall perish, yea perish. You shall not prolong your days on the ground where you are crossing over the Jordan to enter to tenant it. 19 Today I call the heavens and the earth to testify against you:Life and death I have put before you, the blessing and the malediction. Now choose life that you may live, you and your seed, 20 by loving Yahweh your Elohim, hearkening to His voice and clinging to Him (for that means life to you and prolonging of your days) so that you may dwell on the ground about which Yahweh had sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give to them.