4“Now, Israel, listen to the rules and to the regulations that I am teaching you to do, in order that you may live and you may go in and you may take possession of the land that Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,^a is giving to you. ²You must not add to the word that I am commanding you, and you shall not take away from it in order to keep^b the commands of Yahweh your God that I am commanding you to observe. ³Your eyes have seen^c what Yahweh did with^d the case of Baal Peor, for each^e man that followed after Baal Peor Yahweh your God destroyed from your midst. ⁴But you, the ones holding fast to Yahweh your God, are all alive today.^f

⁵See, I now teach^g you rules and regulations just as Yahweh my God has commanded me, to observe them just so in the midst of the land where you are going, to take possession of it. ⁶And you must observe them diligently,^h for that is your wisdom and your insight before the eyes of the people, who will hear all of these rules, and they will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people.’ ⁷For what great nation has for it a god near to it as Yahweh our God, wheneverⁱ we call upon him? ⁸And what other great nation has for it^j just rules and regulations just like^k this whole^l law that I am setting before^m you today?ⁿ

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Deuteronomy 4:7: For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?

Footnotes

aOr “fathers”
bOr “observe”
cLiterally “your eyes the seeing what”
dOr “in”
eLiterally “every one of”
fLiterally “the day”
gOr “I have taught” (compare NASB, NEB)
hLiterally “you must observe and you must do”
iLiterally “in every matter/every time we call ”
jLiterally “which/that is for him it”
kLiterally “as”
lLiterally “all of”
mLiterally “to the face of”
nLiterally “the day”