privilege of being Yahweh’s people and experiencing His loving intervention on their behalf. We see the same truth at the beginning of the Ten Commandments: “I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me” (Exod. 20:2–3). Notice that Yahweh identifies Himself as the Israelites’ God already, before giving the commands and as an implied reason for keeping them. Another passage along these lines is Moses’