Exodus 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:_ Children of Israel ... borrowed. 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 х_ SHAA'AL_ (H7592)] 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 labour; and it was paid in light and valuable articles adapted for convenient carriage, х_ KªLEEY_ (H3627), utensils, vessels.]

29-36 The Egyptians had been for three days and nights kept in anxiety and horror by the darkness; now their rest is broken by a far more terrible calamity. The plague struck their first-born, the joy and hope of their families. They had slain the Hebrews' children, now God slew theirs. It reached from the throne to the dungeon: prince and peasant stand upon the same level before God's judgments. The destroying angel entered every dwelling unmarked with blood, as the messenger of woe. He did his dreadful errand, leaving not a house in which there was not one dead. Imagine then the cry that rang through the land of Egypt, the long, loud shriek of agony that burst from every dwelling. It will be thus in that dreadful hour when the Son of man shall visit sinners with the last judgment. God's sons, his first-born, were now released. Men had better come to God's terms at first, for he will n...

Verse Exodus 12:35. _THEY BORROWED OF THE EGYPTIANS_] Exodus 3:22, Exodus 3:22, where the very exceptionable term _borrow_ is largely explained....

BORROWED - “Asked of.” See Exodus 3:22 note....

EXPOSITION THE DISMISSAL The first action seems to have been taken by Pharaoh. The "cry" of the people had no doubt been heard in the palace, and he was aware that the blow had not fallen on himself alone, and may have anticipated what the people's feelings would be; but he did not wait for any direct pressure to be put upon him before yielding. He sent his chief officers (Exodus 11:8) while it was still night (Exodus 12:31), to inform Moses and Aaron, not only that they might, but that they must take their departure immediately, with all the people, and added that they might take with them their flocks and herds. The surrender was thus complete; and it was accompanied by a request which we should scarcely have expected. Pharaoh craved at the hands of the two bro

AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF MOSES,.... Exodus 3:22 AND THEY BORROWED OF THE EGYPTIANS JEWELS OF SILVER, AND JEWELS OF GOLD, AND RAIMENT; or "they asked" a them of the Egyptians to give them them, which they readily did to get rid of them; for upon their being urgent with the Israelites to be gone in haste, they might reply, that they were not provided with things suitable for a journey, and therefore requested such things of them, which they at once freely consented to; Exodus 3:22, Exodus 11:2, Exodus 11:3. a וישאלו "et postulaverunt", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus; "p

5. REDEMPTION BY BLOOD, THE PASSOVER AND THE LAW OF THE FIRSTBORN CHAPTER 12 The Passover Instituted and Kept, the Death of the Firstborn and the Exodus _ 1. The Passover instituted and the feast of unleavened bread (Exodus 12:1)_ 2. The command given to the people and obeyed (Exodus 12:21) 3. The death of the firstborn in Egypt (Exodus 12:29) 4. The departure of the children of Israel (Exodus 12:31) 5. From Rameses to Succoth (Exodus 12:37) 6. The fulfillment of the 430 years ...

EXODUS 11:1 TO EXODUS 12:36. 10°. DEATH OF EGYPTIAN FIRSTBORN; PASSOVER AND MAZZOTH (Exodus 11:1 E, Exodus 11:4 J, Exodus 11:9 f. R, Exodus 12:1 P, Exodus 12:21 J, Exodus 12:24 P, Exodus 12:25_ a_ houses Rd,...

BORROWED. asked. See note on Exodus 3:22. JEWELS. See note on Exodus 11:2....

THEY BORROWED OF THE EGYPTIANS JEWELS OF SILVER, &C.— This was the immediate command of God himself, ch. Exodus 3:22 and, therefore, we might reasonably conclude, could not be any act of injustice, as proceeding from the great Fountain of right and truth: and, perhaps, the only reason which has caused such a suspicion, is the giving the improper idea of _borrowing_ to the original word, שׁאל _sheal,_ which strictly and properly signifies to _ask, demand,_ or _require,_ as the best expositors have fully shewn: and it appears, that the temper of the Egyptians was such at the time of the departure of the Israelites, that they were very ready to grant their requests, and to comply with all their demands; which, their own consciences must have assured them, were just and equitable; as the Israelites had the fairest claim to a full retribution for all the hardships they had suf