Discovery BoxExodus 18:8 
Context18:8 Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel’s sake, and all the hardship 1 that had come on them 2 along the way, and how 3 the Lord had delivered them.
Exodus 32:8
Context32:8 They have quickly turned aside 4 from the way that I commanded them – they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”
1 tn A rare word, “weariness” of the hardships.
2 tn Heb “found them.”
3 tn Here “how” has been supplied.
4 tn The verb is a perfect tense, reflecting the present perfect nuance: “they have turned aside” and are still disobedient. But the verb is modified with the adverb “quickly” (actually a Piel infinitive absolute). It has been only a matter of weeks since they heard the voice of God prohibiting this.
