'And I will give this people favour^a in the eyes of the Egyptians' means fear, on account of the plagues, which those steeped in falsities had of those belonging to the spiritual Church. 'And so it will be when you go, that you will not go empty-handed' means a life no longer destitute so far as the contents of the natural mind are concerned. 'And let a woman ask of her female neighbour, and of the female guest in her house' means that everyone's good will be enriched with such things as are suited to it. 'Vessels of silver' means factual knowledge of what is true. 'And vessels of gold' means factual knowledge of what is good. 'And clothes' means inferior factual knowledge corresponding to these. 'And you shall put them on your sons' means application to their truths. 'And on your daughters' means application to their forms of good. 'And you shall plunder the Egyptians' means that such things are to be taken away from those who are steeped in falsities and in evils arising from them.

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