‘section’, for example Exod. 12:24–27a; 13:1–16.7 I found it difficult to envisage the procedure by which a Deuteronomist, a canonizer of scripture if ever there was one (cf. Deut. 4:2; 12:32), would be content merely to insert sporadic adjustments to the text. If Deuteronomistic elements are found in the text, it is much more likely that a representative of that school would be putting forth a complete edition of the whole. In that case, ‘supplement’ is far too weak a term: the observation of Deuteronomistic