of Exodus, and as a result, Exodus 19–24 places these two pictures in a dialectical relationship.22 The narrative linkage of these two models results in making the law at once permanent and additive. By virtue of its narrative placement with the decalogue in ch. 20, the following Covenant Code becomes part of the original legislation of ‘the words’ (הדברים). In the narrative the Covenant Code is not regarded as a secondary addition. Rather, it constitutes part of the original deposit of divine instruction.