Parallel Strong's Berean Study BibleI call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live, Young's Literal Translation ‘I have caused to testify against you to-day the heavens and the earth; life and death I have set before thee, the blessing and the reviling; and thou hast fixed on life, so that thou dost live, thou and thy seed, King James Bible I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, [that] I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: Hebrew I call heavenהַשָּׁמַ֣יִם (haš·šā·ma·yim) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky and earth הָאָרֶץ֒ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 776: Earth, land as witnesses הַעִידֹ֨תִי (ha·‘î·ḏō·ṯî) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 5749: To duplicate, repeat, to protest, testify, to encompass, restore against you בָכֶ֣ם (ḇā·ḵem) Preposition | second person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew today הַיּוֹם֮ (hay·yō·wm) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3117: A day that I have set נָתַ֣תִּי (nā·ṯat·tî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 5414: To give, put, set before לְפָנֶ֔יךָ (lə·p̄ā·ne·ḵā) Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 6440: The face you life הַחַיִּ֤ים (ha·ḥay·yîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life and death, וְהַמָּ֙וֶת֙ (wə·ham·mā·weṯ) Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin blessing הַבְּרָכָ֖ה (hab·bə·rā·ḵāh) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 1293: Benediction, prosperity and cursing. וְהַקְּלָלָ֑ה (wə·haq·qə·lā·lāh) Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 7045: Vilification So choose וּבָֽחַרְתָּ֙ (ū·ḇā·ḥar·tā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 977: To try, select life, בַּֽחַיִּ֔ים (ba·ḥay·yîm) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life so that לְמַ֥עַן (lə·ma·‘an) Conjunction Strong's 4616: Purpose -- intent you אַתָּ֥ה (’at·tāh) Pronoun - second person masculine singular Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you and your descendants וְזַרְעֶֽךָ׃ (wə·zar·‘e·ḵā) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 2233: Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity may live, תִּחְיֶ֖ה (tiḥ·yeh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 2421: To live, to revive |