The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 12:36

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

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

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