Deuteronomy 30:11–20

¹¹“For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it ¹out of reach.

¹²“It is not in heaven, ¹that you should say, ‘^aWho 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, ¹that 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.

Choose Life

¹⁵“See, ^aI have set before you today life and ¹prosperity, and death and ²adversity;

¹⁶in that I command you today ^ato love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you ^bmay 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,

¹⁸I declare to you today that ^ayou shall surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter ¹and possess it.

¹⁹“^aI call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, ^bthe blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your ¹descendants,

^20aby loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and ^bby holding fast to Him; ^cfor ¹this is your life and the length of your days, ²that you may live in ^dthe land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”