11. This commandment, that I command thee this day is not above thee, nor far off from thee:
12. Nor is it in heaven, that thou shouldst say: Which of us can go up to heaven to bring it unto us, and we may hear and fulfil it in work?
13. Nor is it beyond the sea: that thou mayst excuse thyself, and say: Which of us can cross the sea, and bring it unto us: that we may hear, and do that which is commanded?
14. But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that thou mayst do it.
15. Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good, and on the other hand death and evil: