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And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse , which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations , whither Jehovah thy God hath driven thee,
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and shalt return unto Jehovah thy God , and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day , thou and thy children , with all thy heart, and with all thy soul ;
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that then Jehovah thy God will turn thy captivity , and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the peoples, whither Jehovah thy God hath scattered thee.
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If [any of] thine outcasts be in the uttermost parts of heaven , from thence will Jehovah thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
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and Jehovah 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 .
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And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed , to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul , that thou mayest live.
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And Jehovah thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies , and on them that hate thee, that persecuted thee.
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And thou shalt return and obey the voice of Jehovah , and do all his commandments which I command thee this day .
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And Jehovah thy God will make thee plenteous in all the work of thy hand , in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground , for good : for Jehovah will again rejoice over thee for good , as he rejoiced over thy fathers ;
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if thou shalt obey the voice of Jehovah thy God , to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law ; if thou turn unto Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul .
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For this commandment which I command thee this day , it is not too hard for thee, neither is it far off.
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It is not in heaven , that thou shouldest say , Who shall go up for us to heaven , and bring it unto us , and make us to hear it, that we may do it?
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Neither is it beyond the sea , that thou shouldest say , Who shall go over the sea for us , and bring it unto us , and make us to hear it, that we may do it?
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But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth , and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
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See , I have set before thee this day life and good , and death and evil ;
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in that I command thee this day to love Jehovah thy God , to walk in his ways , and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances , that thou mayest live and multiply , and that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.
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But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear , but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods , and serve them;
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I denounce unto you this day , that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not prolong your days in the land, whither thou passest over the Jordan to go in to possess it.
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I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day , that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse : therefore choose life , that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed ;
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to love Jehovah thy God , to obey his voice , and to cleave unto him; for he is thy life , and the length of thy days ; that thou mayest dwell in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers , to Abraham , to Isaac , and to Jacob , to give them.