rewarding superannuation package’, and ‘If you accept my offer to teach you and you devote yourself to learning Hebrew and other cognate languages, you will have the satisfaction of being a Semitics scholar’. The latter is a definitional condition, where the apodosis spells out what is inherent in the protasis. Fretheim follows Patrick, noting the close parallel in overall structure between the Sinaitic and the Abrahamic covenants.32 As with Israel in Exod. 19:4–6, that Abraham will obey the covenant