13. And it is not beyond the sea, so that you might say, ‘Who will cross for us to the other side of the sea and take it for us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?’
14. But the word is very near you, even in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may do it.
15. “See, I am setting before you today life and prosperity and death and disaster;
16. what I am commanding you today is to love Yahweh your God by going in his ways and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his regulations, and then you will live, and you will become numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the land where you are going.
17. However, if your heart turns aside and you do not listen and you are lured away and you bow down to other gods and you serve them,
18. I declare to you today that you will certainly perish; you will not extend your time on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to go there to take possession of it.
19. I invoke as a witness against you today the heaven and the earth: life and death I have set before you, blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring,