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1. 'And when all these words have come true for you -- the blessing and the curse, which I have offered you -- if you meditate on them in your heart wherever among the nations Yahweh your God has driven you,

1. "And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,

2. if you return to Yahweh your God, if with all your heart and with all your soul you obey his voice, you and your children, in everything that I am laying down for you today,

2. and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you this day, with all your heart and with all your soul;

3. then Yahweh your God will bring back your captives, he will have pity on you and gather you back from all the peoples among whom Yahweh your God has scattered you.

3. then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes, and have compassion upon you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you.

4. Should you have been banished to the very sky's end, Yahweh your God will gather you again even from there, will come there to reclaim you

4. If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there he will fetch you;

5. and bring you back to the country which belonged to your ancestors, so that you may possess it in your turn, and be made prosperous there and more numerous than your ancestors.

5. and the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, that you may possess it; and he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.

6. 'Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, so that you will love Yahweh your God with all your heart and soul, and so will live.

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

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

7. And the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your foes and enemies who persecuted you.

8. And once again you will obey the voice of Yahweh your God and you will put all his commandments into practice, which I am laying down for you today.

8. And you shall again obey the voice of the LORD, and keep all his commandments which I command you this day.

9. Yahweh your God will make you prosper in all your labours, in the offspring of your body, in the yield of your cattle and in the yield of your soil. For once again Yahweh will delight in your prosperity as he used to take delight in the prosperity of your ancestors,

9. The LORD your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground; for the LORD will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers,

10. if you obey the voice of Yahweh your God, by keeping his commandments and decrees written in the book of this Law, and if you return to Yahweh your God with all your heart and soul.

10. if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, 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 Law which I am laying down for you today is neither obscure for you nor beyond your reach.

11. "For this commandment which I command you this day is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.

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 can hear and practise it?"

12. It is not in heaven, that you should say, `Who will go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do 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 can hear and practise it?"

13. Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, `Who will go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?'

14. No, the word is very near to you, it is in your mouth and in your heart for you to put into practice.

14. But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.

15. 'Look, today I am offering you life and prosperity, death and disaster.

15. "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil.

16. If you obey the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I am laying down for you today, if you love Yahweh your God and follow his ways, if you keep his commandments, his laws and his customs, you will live and grow numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the country which you are about to enter and make your own.

16. If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you are entering to take possession of it.

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

17. But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,

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

18. I declare to you this day, that you shall perish; you shall not live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.

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

19. I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live,

20. in the love of Yahweh your God, obeying his voice, holding fast to him; for in this your life consists, and on this depends the length of time that you stay in the country which Yahweh swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that he would give them.'

20. loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice, and cleaving to him; for that means life to you and length of 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."



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