²⁶ I ^(A)call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today, that you will ^(B)certainly perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to take possession of it. You will not ^[a]live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed.

^19 (A)I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have placed before you life and death, ^(B)the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your ^[a]descendants, ^20 (C)by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and ^(D)by holding close to Him; ^(E)for ^[b]this is your life and the length of your days, ^[c]so that you may live in ^(F)the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”

²⁸ Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and ^(A)call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against them.