There are many isolated statements throughout the Torah which individually disprove the rabbinic claims of an oral law.
In Exodus 24, we see that the Torah from Sinai was a written document, and this - and only this - was taught to Israel. Thus:
3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said: 'All the words which the LORD hath spoken will we do.'
4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
and
7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the hearing of the people; and they said: 'All that the LORD hath spoken will we do, and obey.'
12 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Come up to Me into the mount and be there; and I will give thee the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that thou mayest teach them.'
All of these verses make clear that they are referring to the entire Law, hence it was all written down. Nothing was given by God that was not written down. Therefore, a claim for oral law or tradition is a fraudulent one.
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