^30:2Then if you and your descendants³ turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being⁴ just as⁵ I am commanding you today, ^30:3the Lord your God will reverse your captivity and have pity on you. He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom he⁶ has scattered you. ^30:4Even if your exiles are in the most distant land,⁷ from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back. ^30:5Then he⁸ will bring you to the land your ancestors⁹ possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors. ^30:6The Lord your God will also cleanse¹⁰ your heart and the hearts of your descendants¹¹ so that you may love him¹² with all your mind and being and so that you may live. ^30:7Then the Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you. ^30:8You will return and obey the Lord, keeping all his commandments I am giving¹³ you today. ^30:9The Lord your God will make the labor of your hands¹⁴ abundantly successful and multiply your children,¹⁵ the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the Lord your God will once more¹⁶ rejoice over you to make you prosperous¹⁷ just as he rejoiced over your ancestors, ^30:10if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this scroll of the law. But you must turn to him¹⁸ with your whole mind and being.

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Footnotes

3 Heb “sons” (so ); , , , , , “children.”
4 Or “heart and soul” (also in vv. 6, 10).
5 Heb “according to all.”
6 Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.
7 Heb “are at the farthest edge of the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
8 Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. .
9 Heb “fathers” (also later in this verse and in vv. 9, 20).
10 Heb “circumcise” (so , , , ); “will give you and your descendents obedient hearts.” See note on the word “cleanse” in .
11 Heb “seed” (so , ).
12 Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. .
13 Heb “commanding”; “which I now enjoin on you.”
14 The reads “hand” (singular). Most versions read the plural.
15 Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so , ); “of your body.”
16 Heb “return and.” The Hebrew verb is used idiomatically here to indicate the repetition of the following action.
17 The Hebrew text includes “for good.”
18 Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. .