1“And it shall be, when all these things have come upon you, the blessings and the curses, which I have set before you, and you remember them, when you are dispersed among the nations, to which the LORD your God has driven you, 2And when you and your children return to the LORD your God, and obey Him, with all your heart, and all your soul, as I command you today; 3Then the LORD your God will bring you back from your captivity, and have compassion upon you, gathering you from all the nations, where the LORD your God has scattered you. 4Even if some of you have been banished to the most distant parts under heaven, the LORD your God will gather you from there; 5And He will bring you into the land which your fathers owned, and you shall again possess it; and He will do you good, and make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. 6And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the hearts of your children, enabling you to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and all your soul, so that you may live. 7And the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies, and those that hate and persecute you. 8And you shall again obey the LORD, and follow all His commandments which I give you this day. 9And then LORD your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hands, in the fruit of your womb, and of your cattle, and of your land; for the LORD will again delight in blessing you, as He did your fathers, 10If you obey the LORD your God, and keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if you return to the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

11“For what I command you this day is not hidden from you, nor is it far off. 12It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, that we may hear it, and do it?’ 13Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, that we may hear it, and do it?’ 14But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may obey it.

15“See, I have set before you today both life and good, and death and evil; 16In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes and His ordinances, that you may live and multiply; and the LORD your God shall bless you in the land that you go to possess. 17But if your heart turns away, so that you refuse to hear, but are drawn away, to worship and serve other gods, 18I declare to you this day, that you shall surely perish, and that you shall not prolong your days upon the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. 19I call heaven and earth to record and witness this day against you, that I have set before you both life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore, choose life, that both you and your children may live, 20That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him; for He is your life, and will give you long life; that you may dwell in the land which the LORD promised to your fathers - to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - to give them.”