1)

What is the connection between the current Pesukim?

1.

Seforno (on Pasuk #!): Now that you see that Hashem is prepared to send you into exile in the event that you sin, 1 take care to observe His Mitzvos without adding to or subtracting from them, not even if the reason behind the Mitzvah no longer applies. 2 Because the slightest deviation from the Mitzvos brings destruction in its wake - like what happened by Ba'al Pe'or, where the men intended only to be intimate 3 with the Midyanite women without worshipping their idols. 4 But in the end, everyone who began with Z'nus ended up serving idolatry, and was wiped out.

2.

Divrei Eliyahu: The Torah said "Al Tifnu el ha'Elilim"


1

Refer to 3:26:2:2*.

2

Seforno (citing Sanhedrin, 21b): Like Sh'lomoh ha'Melech said 'I will add [extra wives] and I will not sin ... !'; but he did

3

Seforno: Which is prohibited mainly in order to avoid worshipping their idols.

4

Seforno: As the Pasuk wrote in Balak Bamidbar, 25:1.

5

We see that one may not rely on one's intellect to add or detract from Mitzvos, even le'Shem Shamayim!

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