“So it will be when all of these things have come upon you, ^athe blessing and the curse which I have placed before you, and you ¹call them to mind ^bin all the nations where the LORD your God has scattered you, 2 and you ^areturn to the LORD your God and ¹obey Him ^bwith all your heart and soul in accordance with everything that I am commanding you today, you and your sons, 3 then the LORD your God will ^arestore ¹you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and ^bwill gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has ^cscattered you. 4 If any of your scattered countrymen are at the ¹ends of the earth, ^afrom there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there He will ²bring you back. 5 ^aThe LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will be good to you and ^bmake you more numerous than your fathers.

6 “Moreover, ^athe LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your ¹descendants, ^bto love the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul, so that you may live. 7 ^aAnd the LORD your God will ¹inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. 8 And you will again ¹obey the LORD, and ²follow all His commandments which I am commanding you today. 9 ^aThen the LORD your God will prosper you ¹abundantly in every work of your hand, in the ²children of your womb, the ³offspring of your cattle, and in the ⁴produce of your ground, for ^bthe LORD will again rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers; 10 ¹if you ²obey the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which ^aare written in this Book of the Law, ³if you turn to the LORD your God ^bwith 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 away. 12 It is not in heaven, ¹that you could say, ‘^aWho will go up to heaven for us and get it for us, and proclaim it to us, so that we may ²follow it?’ 13 Nor is it beyond the sea, ¹that you could say, ‘Who will cross the sea for us and get it for us and proclaim it to us, so that we may ²follow it?’ 14 On the contrary, the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may ¹follow it.

15 “See, ^aI have placed before you today life and ¹happiness, and death and ²adversity, 16 in that I am commanding you today ^ato love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, so that you ^bmay live and become numerous, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to take possession of it. 17 But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but allow yourself to be led astray and you worship other gods and serve them, 18 I declare to you today that ^ayou will certainly perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter ¹and take possession of it. 19 ^aI call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have placed before you life and death, ^bthe blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your ¹descendants, 20 ^aby loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and ^bby holding close to Him; ^cfor ¹this is your life and the length of your days, ²so that you may live in ^dthe land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”