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Booty from Pharaoh’s Palace

According to Exodus 3:21-22 …. did the children of Israel also strip & plunder Pharoah’s house / palace, just as they did the people of Egypt?

Answer:

A simple reading of the text indicates that the house of Pharaoh was not plundered. .The Israelites came out with great booty, which was taken from their Egyptian neighbors, but apparently not from the Egyptian king.

I do not know of a source that indicates this. However, according to the Midrash, the Israelites gained more booty at the crossing of the sea than they did when they emerged from Egypt, and much of this was presumably from the kingdom.

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