Exodus 12:36 - Exposition

So that they lent unto them such things as they required . Rather, "So that they granted them what they asked." They spoiled the Egyptians . See the comment on Exodus 3:22 , ad fin . The result was that the Israelites went forth, not as slaves, but as conquerors, decked with the jewels of the Egyptians, as though they had conquered and despoiled them