Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, "Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said. Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!" The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, "We shall all be dead." So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders. The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. And the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
Exodus 12:31-36
The extraordinary nature of Israel's exodus from Egypt is perhaps best underlined by moving 35 and 36 back a few chapters and realising how utterly ludicrous such a possibility would have seemed, to Israel and the Egyptians alike, at the outset of the contest between Moses and Pharaoh. To have imagined, then, that a time would ever come when the Egyptians would even think of giving to a slave people of their gold, silver and raiment, would surely have strained all possible credulity. But God is the God of the impossible, and nothing is too hard for Him to accomplish. There is more than a hint here of what is possible in terms of New Testament redemption. God can also, in the spiritual sense, make capital out of the powers of darkness that hold men in thrall; He can restore to us the years that the locust has eaten, and He makes the last state of the prodigal immeasurably better than his first. Man's state in grace is so much higher than if he had never sinned.
The following verses in the chapter recount the movement of the children of Israel out of the land of bondage, and we shall see many further illustrations of the gospel as we go on. It may suffice at this point to sum up the lessons of the Passover story in simple form. Someone has underlined the following four emphases as epitomising the whole message: a long-suffering God - an approaching storm - a bountiful provision - a simple invitation. Such is the 'Gospel in Exodus'.