I call today heaven and earth to witness, that is, angels and men, that I have set forth to you life and death, good and evil, blessing and cursing; therefore choose thou life, that both thou live and thy seed,
Gather ye to me all the greater men in birth, and teachers [or doctors], by your lineages, and I shall speak to them, hearing these words, and I shall call against them heaven and earth.
I call witness today heaven and earth, that ye shall perish soon from the land, that ye shall wield, when ye have passed over Jordan; ye shall not live long time therein, but the Lord shall do away you,
From heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he should teach thee; and in [the] earth he showed to thee his full great fire, and thou heardest his words from [the] midst of the fire;