וַֽ֭יּוֹצִיאֵם בְּכֶ֣סֶף וְזָהָ֑ב וְאֵ֖ין בִּשְׁבָטָ֣יו כּוֹשֵֽׁל׃
Lalu Ia membawa mereka keluar dengan perak dan emas, dan di antara suku-suku-Nya tidak ada seorang pun yang tersandung.
Ephod Bad
Another explanation: This passage may be understood through the example of a debtor and a lender. If one person is indebted to another, the debtor has no right to resent the one who comes to collect his rightful payment. If the lender is a righteous person, however, he will find ways to lessen the severity of the collection from the debtor by including in the payment any favors or deeds that the debtor does for him. The debtor may not like this but it lessens the debt. This is the meaning of the expression: God calculated when the end would come, that is God began collecting Israel's debt to Him from the time of Abraham on in order to lighten the payment.
“God collected Israel‟s payments through many different sources.” Before the Israelites were worthy of leaving Egypt they had to complete their atonement for practicing idolatry. We can now understand why God dictated that the Israelites had to borrow silver and gold from their Egyptian neighbors rather than simply having it given to them. God could have influenced the Egyptians to give the silver and gold to the Israelites freely just as he forced Pharaoh to free the Israelites from Egypt. So why did God have the Israelites ask for these things rather than simply giving it to the Israelites? This was a way of misleading Pharaoh into believing that God wasn't really all-powerful. Pharaoh must have reasoned, if God was all-powerful, he would have taken the valuables from the Egyptians and given it to the Israelites. God mislead Pharaoh into misjudging God‟s power and pursuing the Israelites so that, they would all drown in the sea.
But borrowing from the Egyptians must have been hard for the Israelites as well. Having to "borrow" from the Egyptians was undignified; the Israelites probably felt that they were acting deceitfully by borrowing things they weren't going to return. It left the Israelites with the impression that the four hundred years of their suffering had not yet come to an end. After all, God had promised them wealth when they left Egypt but said nothing about their having to beg for it. The wealth was supposed to be in payment for their years of servitude in Egypt.
The Israelites must have also thought their time of servitude was not yet over and that was why it was necessary for them to borrow the wealth from the Egyptians rather than take it. This explains why the Israelites kept threatening to go back to Egypt throughout their sojourn in the desert; they were not convinced that their four hundred years had really ended. But we have seen, it was the end of their servitude, and the purpose of the "borrowing" was to create a ruse for the Egypt. It was only at the sea when they collected all the booty that washed up on the shore after the Egyptians drowned that God's promise “they shall go free with great wealth,” was fulfilled. Israel's true liberation, then, did not take place until the Israelites stood on the shore of the Red Sea and collected the plunder.
We can now understand the parable of the lender and the debtor: when God asked the Israelites to borrow silver and gold from the Egyptians, the Israelites were really paying off their debt to God by serving His greater purpose. They enticed Egypt to pursue them so that they would be punished at the sea. Also, Israel's willingness to borrow from the Egyptians was a sign of their complete faith in God. After all, the Israelites had reason to be fearful of the Egyptians' possessions. A plague had just devastated the land of Egypt and the Israel might have been afraid that the possessions of the Egyptians were infected with the plague. Yet they had such complete faith that God would protect them that they were not afraid to take possessions of the Egyptians, even though “there was no household where there was not someone dead.” This was further proof of the Israelites‟ worthiness to be redeemed from Egypt. God thought that the Israelites would not afraid to take silver and gold from the Egyptians so he posed his question in the form of a request, kah na, “Please take silver and gold...” We can now understand the parable of the lender and the debtor: when God asked the Israelites to borrow silver and gold from the Egyptians, the Israelites were really paying off their debt to God by serving His greater purpose. They enticed Egypt to pursue them so that they would be punished at the sea. Also, Israel's willingness to borrow from the Egyptians was a sign of their complete faith in God. After all, the Israelites had reason to be fearful of the Egyptians' possessions. A plague had just devastated the land of Egypt and the Israel might have been afraid that the possessions of the Egyptians were infected with the plague. Yet they had such complete faith that God would protect them that they were not afraid to take possessions of the Egyptians, even though “there was no household where there was not someone dead.” This was further proof of the Israelites' worthiness to be redeemed from Egypt. God thought that the Israelites would not afraid to take silver and gold from the Egyptians so he posed his question in the form of a request, kah na, “Please take silver and gold...”
“God collected Israel‟s payments through many different sources.” Before the Israelites were worthy of leaving Egypt they had to complete their atonement for practicing idolatry. We can now understand why God dictated that the Israelites had to borrow silver and gold from their Egyptian neighbors rather than simply having it given to them. God could have influenced the Egyptians to give the silver and gold to the Israelites freely just as he forced Pharaoh to free the Israelites from Egypt. So why did God have the Israelites ask for these things rather than simply giving it to the Israelites? This was a way of misleading Pharaoh into believing that God wasn't really all-powerful. Pharaoh must have reasoned, if God was all-powerful, he would have taken the valuables from the Egyptians and given it to the Israelites. God mislead Pharaoh into misjudging God‟s power and pursuing the Israelites so that, they would all drown in the sea.
But borrowing from the Egyptians must have been hard for the Israelites as well. Having to "borrow" from the Egyptians was undignified; the Israelites probably felt that they were acting deceitfully by borrowing things they weren't going to return. It left the Israelites with the impression that the four hundred years of their suffering had not yet come to an end. After all, God had promised them wealth when they left Egypt but said nothing about their having to beg for it. The wealth was supposed to be in payment for their years of servitude in Egypt.
The Israelites must have also thought their time of servitude was not yet over and that was why it was necessary for them to borrow the wealth from the Egyptians rather than take it. This explains why the Israelites kept threatening to go back to Egypt throughout their sojourn in the desert; they were not convinced that their four hundred years had really ended. But we have seen, it was the end of their servitude, and the purpose of the "borrowing" was to create a ruse for the Egypt. It was only at the sea when they collected all the booty that washed up on the shore after the Egyptians drowned that God's promise “they shall go free with great wealth,” was fulfilled. Israel's true liberation, then, did not take place until the Israelites stood on the shore of the Red Sea and collected the plunder.
We can now understand the parable of the lender and the debtor: when God asked the Israelites to borrow silver and gold from the Egyptians, the Israelites were really paying off their debt to God by serving His greater purpose. They enticed Egypt to pursue them so that they would be punished at the sea. Also, Israel's willingness to borrow from the Egyptians was a sign of their complete faith in God. After all, the Israelites had reason to be fearful of the Egyptians' possessions. A plague had just devastated the land of Egypt and the Israel might have been afraid that the possessions of the Egyptians were infected with the plague. Yet they had such complete faith that God would protect them that they were not afraid to take possessions of the Egyptians, even though “there was no household where there was not someone dead.” This was further proof of the Israelites‟ worthiness to be redeemed from Egypt. God thought that the Israelites would not afraid to take silver and gold from the Egyptians so he posed his question in the form of a request, kah na, “Please take silver and gold...” We can now understand the parable of the lender and the debtor: when God asked the Israelites to borrow silver and gold from the Egyptians, the Israelites were really paying off their debt to God by serving His greater purpose. They enticed Egypt to pursue them so that they would be punished at the sea. Also, Israel's willingness to borrow from the Egyptians was a sign of their complete faith in God. After all, the Israelites had reason to be fearful of the Egyptians' possessions. A plague had just devastated the land of Egypt and the Israel might have been afraid that the possessions of the Egyptians were infected with the plague. Yet they had such complete faith that God would protect them that they were not afraid to take possessions of the Egyptians, even though “there was no household where there was not someone dead.” This was further proof of the Israelites' worthiness to be redeemed from Egypt. God thought that the Israelites would not afraid to take silver and gold from the Egyptians so he posed his question in the form of a request, kah na, “Please take silver and gold...”