being celebrated, one having to do with the bounty of the new land that was their own and not that of a slave master. The emphasis therefore is on the deliverance of the nation from one land (Egypt) to another (Canaan), a fact that requires no mention of Sinai and the covenant.107 The passage at hand omits reference to Sinai in so many terms, but the “stipulations, decrees and laws” of v. 20, the “decrees” of v. 24, and the “law” of v. 25 put beyond doubt that the narrative includes Sinai as a fundamental