Israel Urged to Obey God’s Law

4 “Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which ^(A)I am teaching you to perform, so that ^(B)you will live and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

^19 (A)I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have placed before you life and death, ^(B)the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your ^[a]descendants,