Keraia
Pentateuch

Deuteronomy 30

The Promise of Restoration

1“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,

1“ And it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you—the blessing and the curse that I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which YHWH your God has driven you away,

2and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,

2and you return to YHWH your God and listen to His voice according to all that I command you today—you and your sons—with all your heart and with all your soul,

3then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.

3then YHWH your God will turn back your captivity, and have compassion on you, and turn back and gather you from all the nations to which YHWH your God has scattered you there.

4Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.

4If it comes to pass that you are cast out into the extremity of the heavens, from there YHWH your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you.

5And the LORD your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more than your fathers.

5And YHWH your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it, and He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers.

6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

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

7Then the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you.

7And YHWH your God will put all these oaths on your enemies and on those who hate you, who pursued you.

8And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you today.

8And you will turn back and listen to the voice of YHWH and do all His commandments that I command you today.

9So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers,

9And YHWH your God will make you abound in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your land, for good. For YHWH will again rejoice over you for good, as He rejoiced over your fathers,

10if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

10if you listen to the voice of YHWH your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes written in the Book of this Law, and if you turn to YHWH your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

The Choice of Life or Death

11For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.

11For this commandment that I command you today is not too wonderful for you, and it is not far off.

12It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’

12It is not in the heavens, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend for us into the heavens and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’

13And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’

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

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

14But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.

15See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, as well as death and disaster.

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

16For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.

16in that I am commanding you today to love YHWH your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances, that you may live and multiply, that YHWH your God will bless you in the land that you are going there to possess.

17But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

17But if your heart turns away, so that you do not listen, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them,

18I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

18I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you will not prolong your days in the land that you are passing over the Jordan to go in there to possess it.

19I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,

19I call as witnesses against you today the heavens and the earth that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, that you may live—you and your seed,

20and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

20and that you may love YHWH your God, to listen to His voice, and to cleave to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land that YHWH swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them.”