addresses ‘you’ (1:18), and every aspect of the ensuing journey, every decision, every battle involves every person in Moses’ audience. These chapters breathe contemporaneity and inclusivity, demanding the attention of everyone listening. It seems that what we have here is not only salvation history, but an exposition of the way of salvation in the present and the future, based on the national experience of the past. The events of the past and the places of the past coalesce with those of the present,