How fantastic is today's chapter and study? This is just over four months into the Exodus. It took three months to get to this mountain, plus forty days of Moses on the mountain. Months were thirty days each, so about four months and ten days have passed, give or take a bit. The people, impatiently waiting for Moses, decide they need a new God to follow. This text strikes us as slightly shocking, depending on how it was taught to us. But since we've paid attention to their grumbling, we aren't really all that surprised by their idolatry. We're even less surprised when we consider Ezekiel 20, which lets us know that this horde of Hebrews carried all the idols of Egypt with them when they left four months earlier. They were idolaters from day one and would stay the course of idolatry through their forty-year journey and beyond...