25 “When you father children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, ^land you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and ^mby doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, so as to provoke him to anger, 26 I ⁿcall heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed. 27 And the Lord ^owill scatter you among the peoples, ^pand you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.

17 But if ^xyour heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, 18 ^yI declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, ^zblessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, 20 loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice ^aand holding fast to him, for ^bhe is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in ^cthe land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”