2827.-Borrowing of the Egyptians by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 28, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 17.

2827.—Borrowing of the Egyptians.

By Editor

In Ex. 12:35 it is stated that the children of Israel "borrowed" various things of the Egyptians. As they never gave it back was this right?

Read as in the Revised Version: The "asked," they demanded. They had been serving long years, centuries in fact, in Egypt. They had really enriched Egypt by their labor; they simply asked what belonged to them. So the word is rendered elsewhere "ask," "demand." The original word "sha'el" is rendered "ask," "beg," "demand," "request," "require," and several other terms. See 2 Sam. 11:7, "David demanded." Also Dan. 2:27, "The secret which the king hath demanded." "Asked," as in the Revised Version, is the best translation, not "borrowed."