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Now when all these things shall be come upon thee, the blessing or the curse , which I have set forth before thee, and thou shalt be touched with repentance of thy heart among all the nations , into which the Lord thy God shall have scattered thee,
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And shalt return to him, and obey his commandments, as I command thee this day , thou and thy children , with all thy heart, and with all thy soul :
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The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity , and will have mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations, into which he scattered thee before.
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If thou be driven as far as the poles of heaven , the Lord thy God will fetch thee back from thence,
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And will take thee to himself, and bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: and blessing thee, he will make thee more numerous than were thy fathers .
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The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed : that then mayst love The Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul , that thou mayst live.
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And he will turn all these curses upon thy enemies , and upon them that hate and persecute thee.
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But thou shalt return , and hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and shalt do all the commandments which I command thee this day :
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And the Lord thy God will make thee abound in all the works of thy hands , in the fruit of thy womb , and in the fruit of thy cattle, in the fruitfulness of thy land, and in the plenty of all things . For the Lord will return to rejoice over thee in all good things, as he rejoiced in thy fathers :
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Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God , and keep his precepts and ceremonies, which are written in this law : and return to the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul .
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This commandment , that I command thee this day is not above thee, nor far off from thee:
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Nor is it in heaven , that thou shouldst say : Which of us can go up to heaven to bring it unto us , and we may hear and fulfil it in work?
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Nor is it beyond the sea : that thou mayst excuse thyself, and say : Which of us can cross the sea , and bring it unto us : that we may hear , and do that which is commanded?
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But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that thou mayst do it.
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Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good , and on the other hand death and evil :
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That thou mayst love the Lord thy God , and walk in his ways , and keep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments , and thou mayst live, and he may multiply thee, and bless thee in the land , which thou shalt go in to possess.
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But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear , and being deceived with error thou adore strange gods , and serve them:
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I foretell thee this day that thou shalt perish, and shalt remain but a short time in the land, to which thou shalt pass over the Jordan , and shalt go in to possess it.
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I call heaven and earth to witness this day , that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing . Choose therefore life , that both thou and thy seed may live:
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And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God , and obey his voice , and adhere to him (for he is thy life , and the length of thy days ,) that thou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to thy fathers Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob that he would give it them.