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Loading ...Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver and jewels of gold.
3 Bible Commentaries on Exodus 11: 2
The Israelites were slaves to the Egyptians. The Pharaoh was the hard task master. He didn’t increase the wages, if at all paid, but he ordered that the Israelites should also collect straws but the quantum of work in terms of number of bricks to be made remained unchanged. Even the common men of Egypt must be ill treating Israelites in taking work from them with low or no pay.
God is true and merciful and righteous as well. He asked the Israelites to borrow from the Egyptians ornaments of Gold and silver. The Egyptians gave them very gladly. Can we not say that the Lord made them to pay the wages due to Israelites for for their hard labor for all those years?
Commentary by Jayant Christian
Posted on:
7/14/2009 17:47 pm 
Does the Lord command to cheat the common people? What’s the secret of borrowing in view of running away?
Yes. But they deserve it, because they, by their silence on the injustice, acted agaist the people of the Lord.
Are they, the Egyptians, not the children of God through Adam, if not throuh Abraham? Then why such a discrimination?
The very fact of Adam’s fall has made the human race an enemy to the Lord and a friend to te foe,Satan- the seperater. The gracious and merciful Lord, on His own initiation and interest as expressed in the PROTO EVANGELIUM-first Good News, came forward to save His children ( ALL) BUT throug His ELECTION AND SELECTION of the PEOPLE OF ISRAEL who were like the rest but now chosen as the BEST, the reason of which no one knows. THIS IS THE ECONOMY OF SALVATION AS DESIGNED BY THE LORD.
Commentary by rajarathinamPosted on:
7/4/2009 01:51 am 
Yes Jeyant,I think you are correct to say that the Israelites received only their back wages due to them.