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18 If you do, I tell you today that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live for a long time in the land that you’re going to take possession of when you cross the Jordan River.

19 I call on heaven and earth as witnesses today that I have offered you life or death, blessings or curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants will live. 20 Love Yahweh your Elohim, obey him, and be loyal to him. This will be your way of life, and it will mean a long life for you[a] in the land that Yahweh swore to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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  1. Deuteronomy 30:20 Or “He is your life, and he will let you live for a long time.”

18 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed.(A) You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

19 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you(B) that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.(C) Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love(D) the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life,(E) and he will give(F) you many years in the land(G) he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

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