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Old Testament Reading - God will swallow up death

¹¹“Obeying these commandments is not something beyond your strength and reach; ¹²for these laws are not in the far heavens, so distant that you can’t hear and obey them, and with no one to bring them down to you; ¹³nor are they beyond the ocean, so far that no one can bring you their message; ¹⁴but they are very close at hand—in your hearts and on your lips—so obey them.

¹⁵“Look, today I have set before you life and death, depending on whether you obey or disobey. ¹⁶I have commanded you today to love the Lord your God and to follow his paths and to keep his laws, so that you will live and become a great nation, and so that the Lord your God will bless you and the land you are about to possess. ¹⁷But if your hearts turn away and you won’t listen—if you are drawn away to worship other gods — ¹⁸then I declare to you this day that you shall surely perish; you will not have a long, good life in the land you are going in to possess.

¹⁹“I call heaven and earth to witness against you that today I have set before you life or death, blessing or curse. Oh, that you would choose life; that you and your children might live! ²⁰Choose to love the Lord your God and to obey him and to cling to him, for he is your life and the length of your days. You will then be able to live safely in the land the Lord promised your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”