Every woman will ask her neighbor and the one who happens to be staying in her house for items of silver and gold and for clothing. You will put these articles on your sons and daughters -- thus you will plunder Egypt!"

Instruct the people that each man and each woman is to request from his or her neighbor items of silver and gold."

Now the Israelites had done as Moses told them -- they had requested from the Egyptians silver and gold items and clothing.

"If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies when its owner was not with it, the man who borrowed it will surely pay.

As one of them was felling a log, the ax head dropped into the water. He shouted, "Oh no, my master! It was borrowed!"