Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, and I shall speak in their ears these words, and cause the heavens and the earth to testify against them.
And Moses chose men of ability from all Israel and gave them heads over the people; rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
I call Heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore, choose life, that you may live, you and your seed,
Assemble the people, men and women, and the little ones, and your sojourner who is within your gates, so that they may hear, and so that they may learn, and may fear Jehovah your God, and take heed to do all the words of this Law;
I call the heavens and the earth to witness against you today that perishing you shall soon perish from off the land to which you are crossing over the Jordan there to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but destroying you shall be destroyed.