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You will return and obey the Lord, keeping all his commandments I am giving[a] you today. The Lord your God will make the labor of your hands[b] abundantly successful and multiply your children,[c] the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the Lord will once more[d] rejoice over you to make you prosperous[e] just as he rejoiced over your ancestors, 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[f] with your whole mind and being.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 30:8 tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I now enjoin on you.”
  2. Deuteronomy 30:9 tc The MT reads “hand” (singular). Most versions read the plural.
  3. Deuteronomy 30:9 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV); NRSV “of your body.”
  4. Deuteronomy 30:9 tn Heb “return and.” The Hebrew verb is used idiomatically here to indicate the repetition of the following action.
  5. Deuteronomy 30:9 tn The Hebrew text includes “for good.”
  6. Deuteronomy 30:10 tn Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.

You will again obey the Lord and follow all his commands I am giving you today. Then the Lord your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land.(A) The Lord will again delight(B) in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors, 10 if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law(C) and turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.(D)

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