Deuteronomy 30

If, despite God our God blessing you in all the ways I have just told you about, {you disobey him, and when} he curses you in all the ways I have just told you about, and you are living in the countries to which he will have scattered you, you may realize what you have done.

Then, if you and your children begin to worship God our God again and faithfully obey all that I have today commanded you to do,

he will act mercifully toward you by rescuing you. He will bring you back from the nations to which he scattered you. \*

Even if he scatters you to the most distant places on the earth, God our God will gather you from there and bring you back to your land.

He will enable you to possess again the land where your ancestors lived. He will cause you to be more prosperous and more numerous than you are now. \*

God our God will change your and your children’s inner beings, with the result that you will love him with all that you desire and with all that you feel and that you will continue to live {in that land}.

God our God will send all the disasters {that I have told you about} on your enemies and on those who oppressed you.

As you did before, you will do what God wants you to do and you will obey all that I have commanded you today. \*

God our God will cause you to be very prosperous in all that you do. You will have many children and many cattle, and you will produce abundant crops. He will again be happy to enable you to prosper, just like he was happy to enable your ancestors to prosper.

But he will do those things only if you do what he has told you to do, and only if you obey all his rules and regulations that I have written about in this instruction book, and only if you again worship God with all that you desire and with all that you feel. \*

The commands that I am giving to you today are not very difficult for you to obey, and they are not difficult to know.

They are not hiding in heaven. You do not need to say, ‘Someone will need to go up to heaven for us and bring them back to us, in order than we can hear them and obey them.’ \*

And they are not on the other side of the sea. You do not need to say, ‘Someone will need to cross the sea for us and bring them back to us, in order than we can hear them and obey them.’

No, his commands are here with you. You have memorized them and you can tell them to anyone. So you can easily obey them. \*

So listen! Today I am allowing you to choose between doing what is good resulting in you living and doing what is evil resulting in you dying.

I say again, if you love God our God, conduct your lives as he wants you to do and obey everything he commands you, you will prosper and become very numerous. God our God will bless you in the land that you are about to enter and possess. \*

But if you stop worshiping God, and if you refuse to obey what he says, and if you allow others to persuade you to worship other gods,

I am warning you today that you will soon die. Your people will not live for very long in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan River to enter and possess. \*

I am requesting everyone in heaven and on the earth to testify to you, that today I am allowing you to choose whether you want to live for a long time or to soon die, whether you want God to bless you or to curse you. So choose to obey and therefore live; choose for you and for your descendants.

Decide to love God our God, to obey him and to always be faithful to him. If you do that, he will enable you and your descendants to live for a long time in the land that God solemnly promised to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give to them.” \*