Moses Challenges Israel to Learn from the Example of Baal-Peor 2

2 Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.




Deu 4:2
The observance of the law, however, required that it should be kept as it was given, that nothing should be added to it or taken from it, but that men should submit to it as to the inviolable word of God. Not by omissions only, but by additions also, was the commandment weakened, and the word of God turned into ordinances of men, as Pharisaism sufficiently proved. This precept is repeated in Deu 13:1; it is then revived by the prophets (Pro 30:6; Jer 26:2), and enforced again at the close of the whole revelation (Rev 22:18-19). In the same sense Christ also said that He had not come to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to fulfill (Mat 5:17); and the old covenant was not abrogated, but only glorified and perfected, by the new.

But keep the commands of the Lord your God, that I give you—In his name; or that he delivered unto them as his commands, and that were to be kept just as they were delivered, without adding to them, or taking from them.

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible. Used by permission www.onlinebible.us

“Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament." World Without End.
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