Exodus 12:35 - Exposition

The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses . See above, Exodus 11:2 . They borrowed . On this mistranslation, see the comment upon Exodus 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.