3. “Your eyes have seen what יהוה did at Ba‛al Pe‛or, for יהוה your Elohim has destroyed from your midst all the men who followed Ba‛al Pe‛or.
4. “But you who are clinging to יהוה your Elohim are alive today, every one of you.
5. “See, I have taught you laws and right-rulings, as יהוה my Elohim commanded me, to do thus in the land which you go to possess.
6. “And you shall guard and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these laws, and they shall say, ‘Only a wise and understanding people is this great nation!’
7. “For what great nation is there which has Elohim so near to it, as יהוה our Elohim is to us, whenever we call on Him?