Deuteronomy 30:2-10

30:2 Then if you and your descendants ¹  turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being ²  just as ³  I am commanding you today, 30:3 the Lord your God will reverse your captivity and have pity on you. He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom he ⁴  has scattered you. 30:4 Even if your exiles are in the most distant land, ⁵  from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back. 30:5 Then he ⁶  will bring you to the land your ancestors ⁷  possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors. 30:6 The Lord your God will also cleanse ⁸  your heart and the hearts of your descendants ⁹  so that you may love him ¹⁰  with all your mind and being and so that you may live. 30:7 Then the Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you. 30:8 You will return and obey the Lord, keeping all his commandments I am giving ¹¹  you today. 30:9 The Lord your God will make the labor of your hands ¹²  abundantly successful and multiply your children, ¹³  the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the Lord your God will once more ¹⁴  rejoice over you to make you prosperous ¹⁵  just as he rejoiced over your ancestors, 30:10 if 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 him ¹⁶  with your whole mind and being.

¹ tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “children.”

² tn Or “heart and soul” (also in vv. 6, 10).

³ tn Heb “according to all.”

⁴ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

⁵ tn 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.

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.

⁷ tn Heb “fathers” (also later in this verse and in vv. 9, 20).

⁸ tn Heb “circumcise” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “will give you and your descendents obedient hearts.” See note on the word “cleanse” in Deut 10:16.

⁹ tn Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).

¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.

¹¹ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I now enjoin on you.”

¹² tc The MT reads “hand” (singular). Most versions read the plural.

¹³ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV); NRSV “of your body.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “return and.” The Hebrew verb is used idiomatically here to indicate the repetition of the following action.

¹⁵ tn The Hebrew text includes “for good.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.