| NET Bible | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1"When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses I have set before you, you will reflect upon them in all the nations where the LORD your God has banished you. | 1"So it shall be when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind in all nations where the LORD your God has banished you, |
| 2Then if you and your descendants turn to the LORD your God and obey him with your whole mind and being just as I am commanding you today, | 2and you return to the LORD your God and obey Him with all your heart and soul according to all that I command you today, you and your sons, |
| 3the LORD your God will reverse your captivity and have pity on you. He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom he has scattered you. | 3then the LORD your God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you. |
| 4Even if your exiles are in the most distant land, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back. | 4"If your outcasts are at the ends of the earth, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you back. |
| 5Then he will bring you to the land your ancestors possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors. | 5"The LORD your God will bring you into the land which 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 also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live. | 6"Moreover the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD 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 on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you. | 7"The LORD your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. |
| 8You will return and obey the LORD, keeping all his commandments I am giving you today. | 8"And you shall again obey the LORD, and observe all His commandments which I command you today. |
| 9The LORD your God will make the labor of your hands abundantly successful and multiply your children, the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the LORD your God will once more rejoice over you to make you prosperous just as he rejoiced over your ancestors, | 9"Then the LORD your God will prosper you abundantly in all the work of your hand, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your cattle and in the produce of your ground, for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers; |
| 10if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this scroll of the law. But you must turn to him with your whole mind and being. | 10if you obey 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 soul. |
| 11"This commandment I am giving you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it too remote. | 11"For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach. |
| 12It is not in heaven, as though one must say, "Who will go up to heaven to get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?" | 12"It is not in heaven, that you should say, 'Who will go up to heaven for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?' |
| 13And it is not across the sea, as though one must say, "Who will cross over to the other side of the sea and get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?" | 13"Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who will cross the sea for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?' |
| 14For the thing is very near you--it is in your mouth and in your mind so that you can do it. | 14"But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it. |
| 15"Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other. | 15"See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity; |
| 16What I am commanding you today is to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess. | 16in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it. |
| 17However, if you turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods, | 17"But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them, |
| 18I declare to you this very day that you will certainly perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess. | 18I declare to you today that you shall surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess it. |
| 19Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live! | 19"I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, |
| 20I also call on you to love the LORD your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continually in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." | 20by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them." |
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