Leviticus as a Continuation of Exodus

L. Michael Morales's volume, Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord: A Biblical Theology of Leviticus, is chock full of insights. Consider the following

The wayyiqtol form with which the book [Leviticus], and from which it derives its Hebrew title, sets the following legislation within a narrative context. Thematically, the opening wayyiqrā’ (And-he-called) sets the entire book of Leviticus within the development of God’s redemptive dealings, as the following chart illustrates.

YHWH God called to Adam [in the garden of Eden]    Genesis 3:9
God called to him [Moses] from within the bush          Exodus 3:4
YHWH called to him [Moses] from the mountain         Exodus 19:3
YHWH called to Moses from within the cloud              Exodus 24:16
YHWH called to Moses and spoke to him from the     Leviticus 1:1
tent of meeting   

More particularly for our purposes, the wayyiqtol links Leviticus to the narrative context of the ending of Exodus, as a continuation of it. We may, therefore, turn to the close of Exodus in order to position the legislation leading up to the inauguration of the tabernacle cultus (Lev. 1–10).

L. Michael Morales, Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord: A Biblical Theology of Leviticus, New Studies in Biblical Theology 37. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2015), 112.