¹ And it shall be, that all these things shall come upon thee, the blessing and the curse^◦, which I have put^◦ before thee, and thou shalt return to^▵ thy heart, in all the nations whither Jehovah thy God has expelled thee.

² And thou shalt return even·​·to Jehovah thy God, and shalt hearken to His voice, according·​·to all that I^▵ command thee today, thou^◦ and thy sons, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul;

³ and Jehovah thy God will turn·​·back thy captivity, and have·​·compassion·​·on thee, and will return and bring· thee ·together from all the peoples, whither Jehovah thy God has scattered thee.

⁴ If any of thine be expelled to the end parts of the heavens, from thence will Jehovah thy God bring· thee ·together, and from thence will He fetch thee;

⁵ 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.

⁶ 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, so·​·that thou mayest live.

⁷ And Jehovah thy God will put^◦ all these curses^▫ on thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, who persecuted thee.

⁸ And thou^◦ shalt return and hearken to the voice of Jehovah, and do all His commandments which I^▵ command thee today.

⁹ And Jehovah thy God will make thee excel^◦ in every work^◦ of thy hand, in the fruit of thy belly, and in the fruit of thy beasts, and in the fruit of thy ground, for good; for Jehovah will return to have·​·joy over thee for good, as^◦ He had·​·joy over thy fathers:

¹⁰ when^◦ thou obey the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the Law, and when^◦ thou return to^▵ Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

¹¹ For this commandment which I^▵ command thee today, is not too wonderful for thee, neither is it far·​·off.

¹² It^◦ is not in the heavens, to say, Who shall go·​·up for us to^▫ the heavens, and fetch it for us, that we may hear it, and do it?

¹³ Neither is it across the sea, to say, Who shall cross the sea for us, and fetch it for us, that we may hear it, and do it?

¹⁴ But the Word is very near to^▵ thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, to do it.

¹⁵ See, I have put^◦ before thee today life and good, and death and evil;

¹⁶ in that I^▵ command thee today to love Jehovah thy God, to walk^◦ in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments; and thou shalt live and multiply; and Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou come to possess it.

¹⁷ But if thy heart turn^◦, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

¹⁸ I tell you today, that perishing you shall perish, you shall not prolong your days upon the ground, whither thou^◦ cross·​·over the Jordan to go·​·in to possess it.

¹⁹ I call· the heavens and the earth ·to·​·testify today against^◦ you, that I have put^◦ before thee life and death, blessing and cursing^◦; and choose life, so·​·that thou mayest live, thou^◦ and thy seed:

²⁰ to love Jehovah thy God, to obey His voice, and to stick to Him; for He^◦ is thy lives^*, and the length of thy days, to dwell on the ground which Jehovah promised to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them^◦.

¹ Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.

² I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

³ I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you."

⁴ So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.

⁵ Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.

⁶ Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.

⁷ Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.

⁸ He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.

⁹ Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.

¹⁰ There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

¹¹ It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

¹² It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

¹³ Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."

¹⁴ It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

¹⁵ The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

¹⁶ He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

¹⁷ Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

¹⁸ Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

¹⁹ Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."

²⁰ Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had.