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.
12:36 spoiled the Egyptians. This was the Lord’s way of constraining the Egyptians to repay the Israelites for the slave labor from which they had benefited for so long. The word “lent” could better be rendered “gave” and, in the previous verse, “asked” instead of “borrowed.”