2 In your observance of the commandments of the Lord, your God, which I am commanding you, you shall not add to what I command you nor subtract from it.
3 You have seen with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal-peor: the Lord, your God, destroyed from your midst everyone who followed the Baal of Peor;
4 but you, who held fast to the Lord, your God, are all alive today.
5 See, I am teaching you the statutes and ordinances as the Lord, my God, has commanded me, that you may observe them in the land you are entering to possess.
6 Observe them carefully, for this is your wisdom and discernment in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “This great nation is truly a wise and discerning people.”
7 For what great nation is there that has gods so close to it as the Lord, our God, is to us whenever we call upon him?
8 Or what great nation has statutes and ordinances that are as just as this whole law which I am setting before you today?