Open English Translation DEU Chapter 30

30 If you’ve experienced the blessings, and then the curses that I’ve told you about, but then you have a change of heart there among all the nations that your god Yahweh has scattered you across, 2 and you and your children decide to return to your god Yahweh and listen to his voice, and sincerely and diligently follow everything that I’m commanding you today, 3 then your god Yahweh will show compassion towards you and reverse your captivity, and he’ll gather you from all the peoples where he’s scattered you, and return you. 4 Even if your scattered people are at the ends of the earth, your god Yahweh would gather you from there and bring you back to your country. 5 Your god Yahweh would then bring you back into the country of your fathers, and you’d retake possession of it, and then he’d cause you to become more prosperous and more numerous than you are now. 6 He will ‘circumcise the heart of’ (remove the evil motives from) you and your children to release you to love your god Yahweh with total sincerity and diligently, so that you can live. 7 Then he will put all those curses on your enemies and those who hate you and who oppressed you. 8 After that, you’ll turn and listen to Yahweh’s voice and follow all his instructions that I’m giving you today. 9 Your god Yahweh will give you prosperity in everything you work on, and in producing children, and expanding your herds and harvesting your crops. He’ll happily cause you to prosper just like he’d done for your fathers, 10 if you listen to his voice, following his instructions and obeying his rules written in this book, i.e., if you return to your god Yahweh your God with total sincerity and with all your energy.

11 These instructions that I’m giving you today aren’t too difficult or impractical for you—12 it’s not like you have to send someone up to heaven to get them so you can hear them and follow them.[ref] 13 Nor are they on the opposite side of the ocean such that you have to find someone to cross over to get them so you can hear them and follow them. 14 On the contrary, these instructions are very close to you—you should discuss them and think about them so that you can follow them.

15 Listen, I’ve placed the choice between life and good, and death and evil, in front of you today. 16 What I’m commanding you today is to love your god Yahweh, to walk in his ways and to follow his instructions and obey his rules and regulations, and then you’ll live and multiply, and your god Yahweh will bless you in the land that you’re about to take possession of. 17 But if your loyalty shifts away and you don’t listen but instead you’re drawn away and bow down to other gods and serve them, 18 then I’m warning you all today that you’ll all most certainly die, i.e., you won’t live for a long time in the land which you’re about to cross the Yarden river to take possession of. 19 I call on the heavens and the earth to witness against you today: I’ve placed in front of you the choice between life and death, and between blessings and the curses, so that you’ll be forced to choose life so that you and your descendants will live. 20 Decide today to love your god Yahweh, to listen to his voice, and to cling to him, because he’ll give you life and lengthen your lives so you can live in the land that Yahweh promised to give to your fathers, Abraham, Yitshak, and Yakov.[ref]