EXOD56 The congruence between brit Avraham and the brit at Sinai is striking. They are two covenants, yet one. It is not coincidental that the first declares, "I am YHWH Who brought you out of Ur-Kasdim," and the second opens with "I am YHWH Your God Who brought you out of the land of Egypt." God is the first and enduring constant in the brit. A second binding component of both britot and a common denominator for all the varieties of brit experience is redemption, physical and moral. The people is rescued in body and spirit, or both. A third component of both covenants is the promise of the land after a time of suffering. "They will enslave and torment them.… then they (Israel) Will go forth." The bridge uniting both brit events is [this verse], where God hears Israel's outcry and "remembers his brit with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."