English: “to enter you into the covenant of Hashem your God and into His oath” — this teaches that the covenant and the oath are bound up with each other. Just as there can be no covenant without an oath, so there can be no oath without a covenant.
The juxtaposition of berit and alah is read as mutual implication: each requires the other.
Type of Learning
Custom (phrase-by-phrase or midrashic expansion of the verse).
What Is Learned
The midrash extracts concrete legal, historical or theological referents from the wording of the passuk, giving the brief biblical language a fuller operational meaning.