^18 (A)I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.

¹⁹ I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, ^(A)blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, ²⁰ loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice ^(B)and holding fast to him, for ^(C)he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in ^(D)the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”