Acting as God’s spokesman, Moses told them: “I have put life and death before you, the blessing and the malediction; and you must choose life in order that you may keep alive, you and your offspring, by loving Jehovah your God, by listening to his voice and by sticking to him; for he is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell upon the ground that Jehovah swore to your forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to give to them. ” ​ — Deuteronomy 30: 19, 20.
მოსემ, რომელიც მათ ღვთის სიტყვას გადასცემდა, ისრაელებს უთხრა: „სიცოცხლე და სიკვდილი, კურთხევა და წყევლა დაგიდევი წინაშე.