“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.