What condition was Egypt in when the Israelites left?
Egypt was a complete shambles economically, socially, militarily, and in every way when the Israelites left. The Egyptians had given their wealth to Israel because the sovereign God moved them to do so, leaving the nation utterly depleted and ruined in every respect.
Les explains that evidence from papyrus and hieroglyphics shows Egypt was indeed a complete shambles economically, socially, militarily, and everything by the time the Israelites had left. The reason, he notes, is that Israel simply took the wealth of Egypt—not by deceit, but because the sovereign God had laid it upon the Egyptians to give them everything they had. Egypt was thus left utterly depleted.