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1 It
shall happen, when
all these things
have come on
you, the blessing
and the curse,
which I have
set before you,
and you shall
call them to
mind among all
the nations where
the LORD your
God has driven
you,
2 and
return to the
LORD your God
and obey his
voice according to
all that I
command you today,
you and your
children, with all
your heart and
with all your
soul,
3 that
then the LORD
your God
will release you
from captivity,
have compassion on
you, and will
return and gather
you from all
the peoples where
the LORD your
God has scattered
you.
4 If
your outcasts are
in the uttermost
parts of the
heavens, from
there the LORD
your God will
gather you, and
from there he
will bring you
back.
5 The
LORD your God
will bring you
into the land
which your fathers
possessed, and you
will possess it.
He will do
you good, and
increase your numbers
more than
your fathers.
6 The
LORD your God
will circumcise
your heart, and
the heart of
your offspring,
to love the LORD
your God with
all your heart
and with all
your soul, that
you may live.
7 The
LORD your God
will put all
these curses on
your enemies and
on those who
hate you, who
persecuted you.
8 You
shall return and
obey the LORD’s
voice, and do
all his
commandments which
I command you
today.
9 The
LORD your God
will make
you prosperous in
all the work
of your hand,
in the fruit
of your body, in
the fruit of
your livestock, and
in the fruit
of your ground,
for good; for
the LORD will
again rejoice over
you for good,
as he rejoiced
over your fathers,
10 if
you will obey
the LORD your
God’s voice, to
keep his
commandments and
his statutes which
are written in
this book of
the law, if
you turn to
the LORD your
God with all
your heart and
with all your
soul.
11 For
this commandment
which I command
you today is
not too hard
for you or
too distant.
12 It
is not in
heaven, that you
should say, “Who
will go up
for us to
heaven, bring it
to us, and
proclaim it to
us, that we
may do it?”
13 Neither
is it beyond
the sea, that
you should say, “Who
will go over
the sea for
us, bring it
to us, and
proclaim it to
us, that we
may do it?”
14 But
the word is
very near to
you, in your
mouth and in
your heart, that
you may do
it.
15 Behold,
I have set
before you today
life and
prosperity, and
death and evil.
16 For
I command you
today to love the
LORD your God,
to walk in
his ways and
to keep his
commandments, his
statutes, and his
ordinances, that
you may live
and multiply, and
that the LORD
your God may
bless you in
the land where you
go in to
possess it.
17 But if
your heart turns
away, and you
will not hear,
but are drawn
away and
worship other gods, and
serve them,
18 I
declare to you
today that you
will surely perish.
You will
not prolong your
days in the land
where you pass
over the Jordan
to go in
to possess it.
19 I
call heaven and
earth to witness
against you today
that I have
set before you
life and death,
the blessing and
the curse.
Therefore choose life,
that you may
live, you and
your descendants,
20 to love
the LORD your
God, to obey
his voice, and
to cling to
him; for he
is your life,
and the length
of your days,
that you may
dwell in the land
which the LORD
swore to
your fathers, to Abraham,
to Isaac, and
to Jacob, to
give them.