It has been shown (Deut. 4:35) that the sage explained that God gave us the wealth of the firstborn and established us in their place as the recipients of their inheritance. Why was it necessary for God to command Israel, “Tell the people to borrow, each man from his neighbor and each woman from hers, objects of silver and gold.” (Ex. 11:2) Why use the language of borrowing and afterwards tell them to take possession of it? It doesn’t make sense as the commentators establish and as we have written in our modesty elsewhere. But it has been seen elsewhere that those who are sentenced to death, their possessions belong to the king. This can be explained as follows: God is the Master of the Universe and everything is in accordance with the law and even in accordance with human law. Since the belongings of a person who is executed by the state now belongs to the king, the possessions of the firstborn in Egypt belonged to the blessed Holy One who then gave them to Israel. On the fifteenth of Nisan as the Israelites were leaving Egypt and the Egyptians were burying their dead, it was necessary for the Israelites to again ask for the possessions of the Egyptians as they had done previously during the plague of darkness. They still hadn’t taken possession of them. When God smote the firstborn of Egypt, the possessions of the executed now belonged to God who inherited them. The Israelites took everything that belonged to the Egyptians according to the law. This is the meaning of the passage, “And I shall execute judgment on the nation that enslaved you.” The sages said that this refers to the plague of the firstborn. First, their possessions belonged to the king, but afterwards, once the plague of the firstborn took place their belongings were inherited by the Israelites by right of the king. Check into this and you will find that there are a number of passages and statements of the sages about this.