Gather the people together -- men, and women, and children, and thy stranger who is within thy gates -- that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law,

"Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God-- your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

And Jacob called unto his sons and said, "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

"Gather yourselves together and hear, ye sons of Jacob, and hearken unto Israel your father:

And Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people: rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

And the LORD said unto Moses, "Gather unto Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.

And I will come down and talk with thee there. And I will take of the Spirit which is upon thee and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

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,

"Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! For the LORD hath spoken: "I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against Me.

And He answered and said unto them, "I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out."