The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing. Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.
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The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.” The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders. The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing. Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.
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The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.
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And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
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And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment.
And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. And they despoiled the Egyptians.
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- Exodus 3:21-22 (vv35–36) I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed. But every…
- Genesis 15:14 (vv35–36) I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;
- Exodus 11:2-3 (v35) Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man ask of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels…
- Psalms 105:37 (vv35–36) He brought them out with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.
- Acts 7:10 (v36) and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt…
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- Exodus 11:3 (v36) Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of…
- Genesis 39:21 (v36) But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
- Daniel 1:9 (v36) Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.
- Proverbs 16:7 (v36) When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
- Acts 2:47 (v36) praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v36 Or, lent them.
Or, lent them.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv35–36 Exo 12:35 And the children of Israel did according…
Exo 12:35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
Ver. 35. And they borrowed.] For their use at that solemn feast they were to keep in the wilderness. The Egyptians denied them nothing; as willing to be rid of them upon any terms. {a}
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{a} Pons aureus fugienti hosti extruendus
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv35–36 They borrowed of the Egyptians, either before this time,…
They borrowed of the Egyptians, either before this time, as they had opportunity, when their hearts were mollified by the foregoing plagues; or even at this time, when the Israelites might well take confidence to borrow, and the Egyptians would be willing to lend them, partly that they might gain their affections and prayers, and partly that they might more readily depart from them.
Jewels, wherewith they used to adorn themselves in the worship of their idols, and therefore supposed the Israelites might use them in the worship of their God. Or, vessels; of which see on Exo 11:2.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv35–36 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to…
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth,.... Rameses was a place in Goshen, or rather the land of Goshen, from whence the country was so called; See Gill on Gen 47:11. The Targum of Jonathan takes it to be Pelusium, or Sin, now called Tinah, formerly the strength of Egypt, and which lay at the entrance of it, and says it was one hundred and thirty miles to Succoth; and Jarchi says one hundred and twenty. But the distance between these two places was not so great; for Succoth from Rameses it is computed was eight miles (f) only. The latter place is so called by anticipation; for it was now a desert, as Josephus (g) says, which he calls Latopolis, but had its name Succoth from the children of Israel pitching their tents there; for the word signifies tents or tabernacles. The number of the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt
were about six hundred thousand on foot, that were men, besides children; and which is confirmed by the account that Chaeremon (h) the Heathen gives, who makes the number of those drove out of Egypt, as he calls them, 250,000; and says that when they came to Pelusium, they found there 380,000 left there by Amenophis; which makes in all 630,000. And so Philo the Jew says (i), they were above 600,000, besides old men, children, and women, that could not easily be numbered; and the word "about" will admit of it, since it may be used not to diminish, but to increase the number; and it is certain that in the second year after they were come out of Egypt, their number was 600,550 without the Levites, who were not numbered; and they that were numbered were such as were twenty years old and upward, and able to go forth to war, Num 1:9 and such were those here, as Jarchi observes; so that if there were 600,000 men of twenty years old and upwards, able to bear arms, besides women, children, and old men, it may well be thought that in all there were no less than near two millions and a half; for, according to the ordinary proportion allowed in other nations of four to one between the number of the whole people in a nation, and those men fit to bear arms, that the number of the Israelites alone, of all ages and sexes which went out of Egypt along with Moses, will amount to 2,400,000 souls (j); which was a prodigious increase of seventy persons in little more than two hundred years, and a most marvellous thing it was, that in so large a number of persons there was not one feeble among them, Psa 105:37.
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(f) See Bunting's Travels, p. 81. (g) Ut supra, (antiqu. l. 2.) c. 15. sect. 1. (h) Apud Joseph. contr. Apion, l. 1. sect. 32. (i) De Vita Mosis, l. 1. p. 625. (j) Bp. of Clogher's Chronology of the Hebrew Bible, p. 271. See Judah Leon's Relation of Memorable Things, &c. p. 2.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v35 Verse 35. They borrowed of the Egyptians] See Clarke…
Verse 35. They borrowed of the Egyptians] See Clarke on Ex 3:22, where the very exceptionable term borrow is largely explained.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv35–36 Borrowed - “Asked of.” See Exo 3:22 note.
Borrowed - “Asked of.” See Exo 3:22 note.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v36 The Egyptians, who afterwards, pursuing them unjustly, put it…
The Egyptians, who afterwards, pursuing them unjustly, put it out of their power to restore, if they had not been otherwise dispensed with by God. (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv35–36 children of Israel borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of…
children of Israel borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver--When the Orientals go to their sacred festivals, they always put on their best jewels. The Israelites themselves thought they were only going three days' journey to hold a feast unto the Lord, and in these circumstances it would be easy for them to borrow what was necessary for a sacred festival. But borrow conveys a wrong meaning. The word rendered borrow signifies properly to ask, demand, require. The Israelites had been kept in great poverty, having received little or no wages. They now insisted on full remuneration for all their labor, and it was paid in light and valuable articles adapted for convenient carriage.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On v35 35, 36. See on Exo_3:22, and Exo_11:2.
35, 36. See on Exo_3:22, and Exo_11:2.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv35–36 35. did &c.] had done …, and asked,—before viz.…
35. did &c.] had done …, and asked,—before viz. the events just narrated (vv. 29–34). Cf. Exo_11:3.
35, 36. Carrying out of the instructions given in Exo_3:21-22 (cf. Exo_11:2).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv35–36 (35) They borrowed.—See the comment on Exo_3:22.
(35) They borrowed.—See the comment on Exo_3:22.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv35–36 The children of Israel did according to the word…
The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses. See above, Exo_11:2. They borrowed. On this mistranslation, see the comment upon Exo_3:22. It is plain that the gold and silver articles and the raiment, were free-will gifts, which the Egyptians never expected to see again, and which the Hebrews asked and took, but in no sense "borrowed." Hengstenberg and Kurtz have shown clearly that the primary meaning of the words translated "borrowed" and "lent," is "asked" and "granted," and that the sense of "borrowing" and "lending" is only to be assigned them when it is required by the context.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On v35 Exo_12:33; Exo_12:35
Exo_12:33; Exo_12:35
The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land.
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Hastened out of Egypt
1. Note the reason of this urgency. Fear lest death overtake them all.
2. Note the utter selfishness of the motive. No true repentance in it.
3. Urgency is fitting when there is imminent danger.
4. There is the greatest need of urgency in every sinners case. Doom and death are at hand. (Homiletic Review.)
The Israelites going out of Egyptian bondage; or, the freedom of the Church
I. That the Israelites were given their freedom by those who had long oppressed them; and so the Church shall be freed by those who have long enslaved it.
II. That the Israelites, in availing themselves of their freedom, had to make many temporary shifts; and so the Church, in stepping into liberty, will have to encounter many perplexities.
III. That the Israelites, going into freedom, took with them all the wealth they could get from the Egyptians; and so the Church, in entering upon its liberty, should avail itself of all the valuables it can obtain from the world. (J. S. Exell, M. A.)
Borrowed from the Egyptians.
Borrowing from the enemy
I remember, when visiting Denmark some twenty years ago, I learned a little incident in the history of a great Danish admiral. On one occasion, when commanding a little sloop--it was before he was admiral--he had the audacity to engage an English frigate in battle. They both fired away, but after a little time the captain of the frigate noticed that the firing from the sloop ceased. A flag of truce was hoisted; a boat was lowered, and the Danish captain came alongside. Addressing his opponent, he said, Sir, our powder is all done, and we have come to borrow some from you! The devil has been using money against the cause of God for many years; let us take it from him, and turn his guns against himself. (Dr. Sinclair Patterson.)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v35 12:35 they asked the Egyptians: See 3:22; 11:2.
12:35 they asked the Egyptians: See 3:22; 11:2.
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