<t /><p class="poetry">May Reuben live and not die,p> <p class="poetry">and may his people multiply.<n id="1" />p>

Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?

So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna.<n id="1" /> He did this to teach you<n id="2" /> that humankind<n id="3" /> cannot live by bread<n id="4" /> alone, but also by everything that comes from the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s mouth.<n id="5" />

Who is there from the entire human race<n id="1" /> who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?

Walk just as he<n id="1" /> has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long<n id="2" /> in the land you are going to possess.p>

The <sc>Lordsc> commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him<n id="1" /> so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.

You must pursue justice alone<n id="1" /> so that you may live and inherit the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">As for the cities of these peoples that<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing<n id="2" /> to survive.

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;See now that I, indeed I, am he!&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;and there is no other god besides me.p> <p class="poetry">I kill and give life,p> <p class="poetry">I smash and I heal,p> <p class="poetry">and none can resist<n id="2" /> my power.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances<n id="1" /> I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of your ancestors,<n id="2" /> is giving you.

<t /><p class="bodytext">You must keep carefully all these commandments<n id="1" /> I am giving<n id="2" /> you today so that you may live, increase in number,<n id="3" /> and go in and occupy the land that the <sc>Lordsc> promised to your ancestors.<n id="4" />

What<n id="1" /> I am commanding you today is to love the <sc>Lordsc> your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the <sc>Lordsc> your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess.<n id="2" />

Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!