| New Living Translation | English Standard Version |
| 1“In the future, when you experience all these blessings and curses I have listed for you, and when you are living among the nations to which the LORD your God has exiled you, take to heart all these instructions. | 1“And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you, |
| 2If at that time you and your children return to the LORD your God, and if you obey with all your heart and all your soul all the commands I have given you today, | 2and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, |
| 3then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes. He will have mercy on you and gather you back from all the nations where he has scattered you. | 3then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you. |
| 4Even though you are banished to the ends of the earth, the LORD your God will gather you from there and bring you back again. | 4If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there he will take you. |
| 5The LORD your God will return you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will possess that land again. Then he will make you even more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors! | 5And the LORD your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. And he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. |
| 6“The LORD your God will change your heart and the hearts of all your descendants, so that you will love him with all your heart and soul and so you may live! | 6And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. |
| 7The LORD your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate and persecute you. | 7And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you. |
| 8Then you will again obey the LORD and keep all his commands that I am giving you today. | 8And you shall again obey the voice of the LORD and keep all his commandments that I command you today. |
| 9“The LORD your God will then make you successful in everything you do. He will give you many children and numerous livestock, and he will cause your fields to produce abundant harvests, for the LORD will again delight in being good to you as he was to your ancestors. | 9The LORD your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the LORD will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers, |
| 10The LORD your God will delight in you if you obey his voice and keep the commands and decrees written in this Book of Instruction, and if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and soul. The Choice of Life or Death | 10when you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. |
| 11“This command I am giving you today is not too difficult for you, and it is not beyond your reach. | 11“For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. |
| 12It is not kept in heaven, so distant that you must ask, ‘Who will go up to heaven and bring it down so we can hear it and obey?’ | 12It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ |
| 13It is not kept beyond the sea, so far away that you must ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to bring it to us so we can hear it and obey?’ | 13Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ |
| 14No, the message is very close at hand; it is on your lips and in your heart so that you can obey it. | 14But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it. |
| 15“Now listen! Today I am giving you a choice between life and death, between prosperity and disaster. | 15“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. |
| 16For I command you this day to love the LORD your God and to keep his commands, decrees, and regulations by walking in his ways. If you do this, you will live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you and the land you are about to enter and occupy. | 16If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. |
| 17“But if your heart turns away and you refuse to listen, and if you are drawn away to serve and worship other gods, | 17But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, |
| 18then I warn you now that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live a long, good life in the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy. | 18I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. |
| 19“Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live! | 19I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, |
| 20You can make this choice by loving the LORD your God, obeying him, and committing yourself firmly to him. This is the key to your life. And if you love and obey the LORD, you will live long in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” | 20loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” |
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