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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 30
Scattered Israel shall be gathered from all nations when they remember the
covenant—Moses places life or death, blessing or cursing, before the
people.
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1 AND it shall come to
pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the
ablessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and
thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD
thy God hath driven thee,
2 And shalt areturn unto the LORD
thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this
day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy
acaptivity, and have bcompassion upon
thee, and will return and cgather thee from all the
nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered
theea.
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3a whither the LORD thy God hath
scattered thee Moses knew and prophesied and sealed upon Isreal
their fate of scattering and then being gathered in again. Thus were the
keys of both the scattering and eventual gathering of Israel set in the hands
of Moses. And thus also it was the proper order of things that in the
latter-days that the keys to the gather of Israel be restored to the earth
by the hand of Moses unto the prophet Joseph Smith in the Kirtland temple on
April 3, 1836 (See D&C 110).
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4 If any of thine be driven out unto the
outmost parts of aheaven, from thence will the LORD
thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
5 And the LORD 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 the LORD thy God will
acircumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to
blove the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all
thy soul, that thou mayest live.
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7 And the LORD thy God will put all these
acurses upon thine benemies, and on them
that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.
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9 And the LORD thy God will make thee
aplenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy
body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good:
for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy
fathers:
10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD
thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this
book of the law, and if thou aturn unto the LORD thy
God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
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11 ¶ For this commandment which I command thee
this day, it is not ahidden from thee, neither
is it far off.
12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy
mouth, and in thy aheart, that thou mayest do it.
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15 ¶ See, I have set before thee this day
alife and good, and death and bevil;
16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD
thy God, to awalk in his ways, and to keep his commandments
and his statutes and his bjudgments, that thou mayest live
and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou
goest to possess it.
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17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
18 I adenounce unto you this day,
that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your
days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
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19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against
you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and
acursing: therefore bchoose life, that
both thou and thy seed may live:
20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and
that thou mayest aobey his voice, and that thou mayest
cleave unto him: for he is thy blife, and the length
of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto
thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
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