Discovery BoxExodus 4:28 
Context4:28 Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had 1 sent him and all the signs that he had commanded him.
Exodus 12:35
Context12:35 Now the Israelites had done 2 as Moses told them – they had requested from the Egyptians 3 silver and gold items and clothing.
Exodus 18:9
Context18:9 Jethro rejoiced 4 because of all the good that the Lord had done for Israel, whom he had delivered from the hand of Egypt.
1 tn This verb and the last one in the verse are rendered with the past perfect nuance because they refer to what the
2 tn The verbs “had done” and then “had asked” were accomplished prior to the present narrative (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 99). The verse begins with disjunctive word order to introduce the reminder of earlier background information.
3 tn Heb “from Egypt.” Here the Hebrew text uses the name of the country to represent the inhabitants (a figure known as metonymy).
4 tn The word חָדָה (khada) is rare, occurring only in Job 3:6 and Ps 21:6, although it is common in Aramaic. The LXX translated it “he shuddered.” U. Cassuto suggests that that rendering was based on the midrashic interpretation in b. Sanhedrin 94b, “he felt cuts in his body” – a wordplay on the verb (Exodus, 215-16).
