Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain. Early morning presentation — the same discipline as manna-gathering and the morning sacrifice — is the time of renewed covenant meeting. The repetition of the ascent recapitulates the original covenant ceremony: same mountain, same mediator, same God. The renewal follows the same structure as its institution because the covenant being renewed is the same covenant. What was broken by human faithlessness is restored by divine faithfulness, and the path back is the same path as the path in.

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