28 "Hear these words, Israel.
29 At first our fathers lived as strangers in Egypt, and they were liberated from there.
30 They received the Law of life, but they didn’t keep it, and you also transgressed after them.
31 You were given land by allotment in the region of Zion. You and your fathers did evil and didn’t keep the ways that the Most High had commanded you.
32 Since he is a just judge, in time he took away from you what he granted.
33 Now you are here, and your relatives live even farther away.
34 If then you will rule your mind and instruct your heart, you will be kept alive, and after death you will attain mercy.