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​ A Call to Return to the Lord “In the future, when you experience all these blessings and curses, which 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.  If, 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, …then 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.  Even though you are banished, to the ends of the earth, the Lord, your God, will gather you from there, and bring you back again.  The 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!  “The Lord, your God, will change your heart, and the hearts of al...

Moses Returns to Egypt So Moses went back home to Jethro, his father-in-law.  “Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt,” Moses said.  “I don’t even know if they are still alive.”  “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.  Before Moses left Midian, the Lord said to him, “Return to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you have died.”  So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and headed back to the land of Egypt.  In his hand he carried the staff of God.  And the Lord told Moses,  “When you arrive back in Egypt, go to Pharaoh and perform all the miracles I have empowered you to do.  But I will harden his heart so he will refuse to let the people go.  Then you will tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son.  I commanded you, “Let my son go, so he can worship me.”  But since you have refused, I will now kill your firstborn son!’ ”  On the way to Egypt, at a place where Moses and his fam...