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.
Y clepe witnesses to dai heuene and erþe, þat is, ech resonable creature beynge in heuene and in erþe, þat ye schulen perische soone fro þe lond, which ye schulen welde, whanne ye han passid Jordan; ye schulen not dwelle long tyme þerynne, but þe Lord schal do awey you,