Exodus 3:22
Every woman will ask her neighbor as well as any woman living in her house for silver and gold jewelry and clothing, and put them on your sons and daughters. In this way you will take the wealth of the Egyptians with you.”
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In Context
21I will make the Egyptians treat you well as a people, so when you go you won't leave empty-handed.
Cross References
Exodus 11:2Now go and tell the Israelites, both men and women, to ask their Egyptian neighbors for silver and gold objects.”
Job 27:16Even though they pile up silver like dust, and clothes like heaps of clay,
Proverbs 13:22Good people leave an inheritance to their grandchildren, but the sinner's wealth is saved for those who live right.
Ezekiel 39:10They won't need to go and gather firewood from the countryside or cut it from the forests, because they'll use the weapons to make fires. They will loot and plunder those who looted and plundered them, declares the Lord God.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 3:17-22
16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt: 17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. 18 And they shall hearken to thy voice:… Read the whole commentary →