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Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
"They spoiled the Egyptians" means the Israelites vandalized or ruined the Egyptians on their way out
"Spoiled" here means plundered or stripped of goods, not ruined or damaged.
Exodus 12:36, in every translation this tool compares.
Exodus 12:36 reads, "the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians." "Spoil" comes from Latin "spoliare," to strip or plunder, the same root that gives us "the spoils of war." The Israelites walked out with the Egyptians' silver, gold, and clothing; that's the "spoiling."
Today "spoil" almost always means to ruin something (spoiled milk, a spoiled child), a sense that developed later and now dominates the word. A modern reader pictures property damage; the text describes a peaceful, almost comic handover of valuables.
