for you, life and prosperity, death and doom. If you obey the commandments of the Lord, your God,

which I enjoin on you today, loving him and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments,

statutes, and decrees, you will live and grow numerous, and the Lord your God will bless you

in the land you entering to occupy.

If however you turn away your hearts and will not listen,

but are led astray and adore and serve other gods,

I tell you now that you will certainly perish.

You will not have a long life on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy.

I call heaven and earth today to witness against you. I have set before you your life and death,

the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live by living the Lord your God, heating his voice

and holding fast to him.

For that will mean life for you, a long life for you to live on the land that the Lord

swore he would give you your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

The Word of the Lord.

Thanks to God.

Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.

Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked, nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, but delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on his law day and night. He is like a tree planted near running water that yields its fruit in due season and whose leaves never fade.

Whatever he does prospers.

Not so the wicked, not so. They are like chaff, which the wind drives away,

for the Lord watches over the way of the just, but the way of the wicked vanishes.

Watch us your name for the Lord.

My brothers and sisters, may our Lord be with you.

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