When one reads the Pentateuch, an obvious pattern to its narratives eventually comes to the fore. Despite the sprawling stories and centuries of history which it covers, the Pentateuch is rather elementary in its themes of institution, rebellion, and restoration — and by “elementary” it is not meant to infer a derogation. Rather, it is meant to recognize the profundity that exists in the Pentateuch’s simplicity. Nearly every episode peppered throughout Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy articulates the relational terms and blessings with which God and his chosen people are covenanted and how swiftly those same covenantees determine to devise their own methods of securing the promised blessings. These manmade determinations only serve to frustrate God intentions to bless his people and the institutions in which those blessings were to be received and enjoyed.