Deuteronomy 30

Revised Geneva Translation

30 “Now when all these things shall come upon you (the blessing or the curse which I have set before you) and you shall turn into your heart among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,

² “and shall return to the LORD your God and obey His Voice in all that I command you this day (you and your children) with all your heart and with all your soul,

³ “then the LORD your God will cause your captives to return, and have compassion upon you, and will return to gather you out of all the people where the LORD your God has scattered you.

⁴ “Though you were cast to the utmost part of Heaven, from there will the LORD your God gather you. And from there will He take you.

⁵ “And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed. And you shall possess it. And He will show you favor and will multiply you above your fathers.

⁶ “And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, so that you may love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, so that you may live.

⁷ “And the LORD your God will lay all these curses upon your enemies, and on those who hate you, and who persecute you.

⁸ “Return, therefore, and obey the Voice of the LORD, and do all His Commandments which I command you this day.

⁹ “And the LORD your God will make you plenteous in every work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of the land, for your wealth. For the LORD will turn again and rejoice over you, to do you good (as He rejoiced over your fathers)

¹⁰ “because you shall obey the Voice of the LORD your God — in keeping His Commandments and His Ordinances which are written in the Book of this Law — when you shall return to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

¹¹ “For this Commandment which I command you this day is not hidden from you, nor is it far off.

¹² “It is not in Heaven, so that you should say, ‘Who shall go up for us to Heaven and bring it to us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?’

¹³ “Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you should say, ‘Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it to us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?’

¹⁴ “But the Word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, for you to do it.

¹⁵ “Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil,

¹⁶ “in that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His Commandments, and His Ordinances, and His Laws, so that you may live and be multiplied, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land to which you go to possess.

¹⁷ “But if your heart turns away, so that you will not obey but shall be seduced and worship other gods and serve them,

¹⁸ “I pronounce to you this day that you shall surely perish. You shall not prolong your days in the land which you pass over Jordan to possess.

¹⁹ “I call Heaven and Earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life, so that you and your seed may live

²⁰ “by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His Voice, and by clinging to Him. For He is your life, and the length of your days, so that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give them.”