borrow] See Annot. on Chap. 2. 5: 22.
neighbour] Though at first the Israclites (planted in Goshen) had not much to do with the Egyptians, from whom they were (for the most part) separated in their manners and in their habitations, (for which a part of the Province of Goshen was sufficient) yet afterwards they multiplyed so much, that they spread all over that Countrey: and besides had many mixed habitations in other parts of Egypt, whence it was, that their doores were distinguished by the sprinkling of blood, as in the next Chapter.
jewels of silver] Chap. 3. 22. &Chap. 12. 35.