When the children of Israel left Egypt, they took the Wealth of Egypt with them.
The Israelites in Egypt were apparently living in houses, not in tents, so where did they get the tents for the wilderness?
Exodus 12:21. Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Choose and take for yourselves a lamb according to your families and kill the Passover lamb. 22. And you will take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin, and none of you will go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23. For the LORD* will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when He sees the blood upon the lintel and on the two side posts, the LORD* will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.
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