Study it in the app“I call the heavens and the earth to witness against you today: life and death I have set before you, the blessing and the curse. And you shall choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring,”
Moses sets life and good, death and evil before them: choose lifeObedience
I callהַעִידֹתִיthe heavensהַשָּׁמַיִםand the earthוְ הָאָרֶץto witnessהַעִידֹתִיagainst youבָכֶםtoday:הַיּוֹםlifeהַחַיִּיםand deathוְהַמָּוֶתI have setנָתַתִּיbefore you,לְפָנֶיךָthe blessingהַבְּרָכָהand the curse.וְהַקְּלָלָהAnd you shall chooseוּבָחַרְתָּlife,בַּחַיִּיםso thatלְמַעַןyouאַתָּהmay live,תִּחְיֶהyou and your offspring,וְזַרְעֶךָ
testify
To declare what one knows, or summon others to vouch for one's words.
Where else “haidoti” appearssky
The high space seen above the earth, where the birds, clouds, sun and stars are.
Where else “shamayim” appearsearth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appearstoday
This very day in which one speaks, the present moment.
Where else “yom” appearslife
The span and strength of being alive, which come from God.
Where else “chayim” appearsdeath
The end of life: when someone stops breathing and returns to dust.
Where else “mavet” appearsput
To place something somewhere.
Where else “natati” appearsbefore
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fane” appearsblessing
The good God gives, or words asking for it.
Where else “beracha” appearscurse
Curse: words calling down evil on someone; the opposite of a blessing.
Where else “kelala” appearschoose
To take one thing and leave the others, because it is preferred.
Where else “vacharta” appearslive
To have breath and remain in this world, not die.
Where else “tichye” appearsoffspring
The children, grandchildren and whole line that come from someone.
Where else “zare” appears18I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you will not prolong your days on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter there to possess it.
19 · This verse (above)
20loving YHWH your Elohim, listening to his voice, and clinging to him; for he is your life and the length of your days, so that you may live on the land that YHWH swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
