Deuteronomy 4:3

Your eyes have seen Cp. Deuteronomy 3:21.

because of Baal-peor Heb. in Ba-al-Pe-or(in Beth-Ba-al-Pe-or), a place-name as in Hosea 9:10; cp. Deuteronomy 3:29. The sin and its punishment are related by JE, Numbers 25:1-5; then follows, 6 16, a similar story about Israel and Midianite seductions, from P. Ba-al of Pe-or was a local deity, otherwise unknown to us. Driver (Deut.63 f.) questions the usual opinion that he was a priapic deity, yet the close association of the charge of worshipping him with that of illicit intercourse with the daughters of Moab, combined with the notorious impurity of the Syrian religions, appears to confirm the opinion.

thy God … from the midst of thee Note the change to the Sg. here from the Pl. in the beginning of the verse. Sam. and LXX, probably less originally, give Pl. throughout. For similar changes see Deuteronomy 4:25; Deuteronomy 4:29; Deuteronomy 4:34; Deuteronomy 11:13-14.