(KJV) Deuteronomy 30¹

⥃The Promise of Restoration ^{[ Nehemiah 1:1–11 ]}

[1] And it shall come² to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing³ and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call⁴ [them] to mind among all the nations, whither⁵ the Lord thy God hath driven thee, [2] And shalt return unto⁶ the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart⁷, and with all thy soul; [3] That then the⁸ Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee⁹ from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee. [4] If [any] of thine be driven out unto¹⁰ the outmost [parts] of heaven, from thence will the¹¹ Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: [5] And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. [6] And the Lord thy God will circumcise¹² thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord¹³ thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. [7] And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.¹⁴ [8] And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.¹⁵ [9] And the Lord thy God will make thee¹⁶ plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will again rejoice over thee¹⁷ for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: [10] If thou shalt hearken unto¹⁸ the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, [and] if thou turn unto¹⁹ the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

⥃The Choice of Life or Death

[11] For this commandment which I command thee this day, it [is] not hidden²⁰ from thee, neither [is] it far off. [12] It [is] not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?²¹ [13] Neither [is] it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall²² go over the sea²³ for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? [14] But the word [is] very²⁴ nigh unto thee, in thy mouth²⁵, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

[15] See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;²⁶ [16] In that I command thee this day to love²⁷ the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep²⁸ his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. [17] But if thine²⁹ heart³⁰ turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; [18] I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, [and that] ye shall not prolong [your] days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.³¹ [19] I call heaven³² and earth to record this day against you, [that] I have³³ set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life³⁴, that both thou³⁵ and thy seed may live: [20] That thou mayest love³⁶ the Lord thy God, [and] that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave³⁷ unto him: for he [is] thy life³⁸, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest³⁹ dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.