Projective, not subjective or objective

The logic of the Chumash is not so much to proffer an ultimate end as it is to insist on a prior claim by God to some of the fundamental structures in the society. God demands a sanctuary, if the people would have Him living among them; and He demands the respect for His allotments as a condition of the people occupying the land. He says only that the basis of the social order is a relationship with Him. Beyond that, He doesn't specify a particular objective. It's whatever He and the people come up with. 

The Bible couches the political structure in projective rather than in subjective or objective terms. That's the meaning of the second Sinaitic covenant coming to modify the first version. The second version of the covenant introduces the project of the mishkan as an adjunct to the terms of the original covenant, an adjunct written in the practical and pragmatic actions and the common purpose of the people and not merely in the words of obligation and committment that typically define the full extent of covenantal union.