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Yahweh Will Take You Back

¹ "So it will be, when all of these things have come upon you, ^(C1)the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you cause these things to return to your heart ^(C2)in all the nations where Yahweh your God has banished you,² and you ^(C1)return to Yahweh your God and listen to His voice ^(C2)with all your heart and soul according to all that I am commanding you today, you and your sons,³ then Yahweh your God will ^(F1)(C1)return ^(F2)you from captivity and return His compassion on you, and He ^(C2)will gather you again from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has ^(C3)scattered you.⁴ "If those of you who are banished are at the ends of the sky, ^(C1)from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and from there He will take you back.⁵ "^(C1)And Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will prosper you and ^(C2)multiply you more than your fathers.

⁶ "Moreover ^(C1)Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, ^(C2)to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.⁷ "^(C1)And Yahweh your God will ^(F1)inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.⁸ "And you shall return and listen to the voice of Yahweh, and you shall do all His commandments which I am commanding you today.⁹ "^(C1)Then Yahweh your God will ^(F1)prosper you abundantly in all the work of your hand, in the ^(F2)offspring of your ^(F3)body and in the ^(F2)offspring of your cattle and in the ^(F2)produce of your ground, for ^(C2)Yahweh will return to rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers,^10 (F1)when you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which ^(C1)are written in this book of the law, ^(F1)when you return to Yahweh your God ^(C2)with all your heart and soul.

¹¹ "For this commandment which I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it far from you.¹² "It is not in heaven, ^(F1)that you should say, '^(C1)Who will go up to heaven for us and get it for us and make us hear it, that we may do it?'¹³ "Nor is it beyond the sea, ^(F1)that you should say, 'Who will cross the sea for us and get it for us and make us hear it, that we may do it?'¹⁴ "But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.

Choose Life

¹⁵ "See, ^(C1)I have set before you today life and ^(F1)prosperity, and death and ^(F2)calamity;¹⁶ in that I am commanding you today ^(C1)to love Yahweh your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you ^(C2)may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it.¹⁷ "But if your heart turns away and you will not listen, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,¹⁸ I declare to you today that ^(C1)you shall surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter ^(F1)and possess it.¹⁹ "^(C1)I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, ^(C2)the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your seed,^20 (C1)by loving Yahweh your God, by listening to His voice, and ^(C2)by holding fast to Him; ^(C3)for ^(F1)this is your life and the length of your days, ^(F2)that you may live in ^(C4)the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."