Christine Hayes continues Yale's Introduction to the Old Testament with a lecture on the Exodus narrative and Israel's liberation from Egypt. She argues that Passover developed as a historicization of earlier nature festivals, then traces the Exodus story as a paradigm for collective salvation. The heart of the lecture is the covenant concluded at Sinai between God and Israel through Moses, examined through Jon Levenson's scholarship on Ancient Near Eastern treaty parallels. Hayes describes the Sinaitic covenant as an intersection of law and love, structuring the divine-human relationship in terms borrowed from Near Eastern suzerain treaties. The lecture closes on God's patience with the Israelites during the journey toward the Promised Land, drawing on passages from Exodus 5 through 24 and 32, along with material from Numbers. Recorded in 2006 as part of Yale's Religious Studies 145 course, this is straightforward classroom teaching with chapter markers for easy navigation.