¹¹ “For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it ^[a]out of reach. ¹² It is not in heaven, ^[b]that you should say, ‘^(A)Who will go up to heaven for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?’ ¹³ Nor is it beyond the sea, ^[c]that you should say, ‘Who will cross the sea for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?’ ¹⁴ But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it.

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¹⁵ “See, ^(B)I have set before you today life and ^[d]prosperity, and death and ^[e]adversity; ¹⁶ in that I command you today ^(C)to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you ^(D)may live and multiply, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it. ¹⁷ But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them, ¹⁸ I declare to you today that ^(E)you shall surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter ^[f]and possess it.