It is sometimes questioned how God could instruct the Israelites to take wealth from the Egyptians when the law later commands, 'Thou shalt not steal.' However, Exodus 12:35-36 explicitly notes that the Israelites asked the Egyptians for items, and the Egyptians willingly gave them. This is not stealing; rather, it functions in principle as reparations or back-wages given to a people who had been enslaved and exploited for generations.

It has been objected that, assuming it took one hour to mobilize and eight hours to collect the spoils mentioned, the Israelites would have had fifteen hours to leave Egypt. That would have required them to move at more than sixty miles per hour.

The one hour to mobilize is probably correct, given that the amount of personal property held by a given individual in this time could have fit into (at most) a large backpack. But eight hours to collect the spoils? To use a helpful modern parallel, children can 'trick or treat' an entire neighborhood of up to 75 houses in only a quarter of that time. Since this is not a case where there would be any duplication (assuming here that coverage 'assignments' were given at a certain level in the transmission proceedings), and since we have a suitable 'army' of people to make the rounds, the 'spoils run' would take no more than two hours -- with no need at all for superhuman speed.