together, apart from the introductory וגם, is the reference to the berît which God has established and which he is now remembering. With the transitional לכן, ‘therefore’, the charge to Moses begins: he is to talk to the Israelites (v. 6). This divine speech begins again with the emphatic ‘I am Yhwh’. The reiteration of the self-introductory formula heralds a change of perspective: whereas up to now the past was the subject, now the announcement begins of what God means to do. The speech has initially