Exodus 12:32
New International Version
Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.”

New Living Translation
Take your flocks and herds, as you said, and be gone. Go, but bless me as you leave.”

English Standard Version
Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!”

Berean Standard Bible
Take your flocks and herds as well, just as you have said, and depart! And bless me also.”

King James Bible
Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.

New King James Version
Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.”

New American Standard Bible
Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also.”

NASB 1995
“Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also.”

NASB 1977
“Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have spoken, and go, and bless me also.”

Amplified Bible
Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and [ask your God to] bless me also.”

Christian Standard Bible
Take even your flocks and your herds as you asked and leave, and also bless me.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Take even your flocks and your herds as you asked and leave, and also bless me.”

American Standard Version
Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Also your flocks also your cattle take as you have said, and go and bless me also.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And take with you your sheep, and your oxen: bless me also, I pray you.

Contemporary English Version
Take your sheep, goats, and cattle, and get out. But ask your God to be kind to me."

Douay-Rheims Bible
Your sheep and herds take along with you, as you demanded, and departing, bless me.

English Revised Version
Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Take your flocks and herds, too, as you asked. Just go! And bless me, too!"

Good News Translation
Take your sheep, goats, and cattle, and leave. Also pray for a blessing on me."

International Standard Version
Take both your sheep and your cattle, just as you demanded and go! And bless me too!"

JPS Tanakh 1917
Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.'

Literal Standard Version
take both your flock and your herd as you have spoken, and go; then you have also blessed me.”

Majority Standard Bible
Take your flocks and herds as well, just as you have said, and depart! And bless me also.”

New American Bible
Take your flocks, too, and your herds, as you said, and go; and bless me, too!”

NET Bible
Also, take your flocks and your herds, just as you have requested, and leave. But bless me also."

New Revised Standard Version
Take your flocks and your herds, as you said, and be gone. And bring a blessing on me too!”

New Heart English Bible
Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also."

Webster's Bible Translation
Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone: and bless me also.

World English Bible
Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”

Young's Literal Translation
both your flock and your herd take ye, as ye have spoken, and go; then ye have blessed also me.'

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Exodus Begins
31Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested. 32Take your flocks and herds as well, just as you have said, and depart! And bless me also.” 33And in order to send them out of the land quickly, the Egyptians urged the people on. “For otherwise,” they said, “we are all going to die!”…

Cross References
Genesis 15:14
But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.

Exodus 10:9
"We will go with our young and old," Moses replied. "We will go with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD."

Exodus 10:26
Even our livestock must go with us; not a hoof will be left behind, for we will need some of them to worship the LORD our God, and we will not know how we are to worship the LORD until we arrive."


Treasury of Scripture

Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.

your flocks

Exodus 10:26
Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.

bless me

Exodus 8:28
And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.

Exodus 9:28
Intreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.

Genesis 27:34,38
And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father…

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Exodus 12
1. The beginning of the year is changed
3. The Passover is instituted
11. The import of the rite of the Passover
15. Unleavened bread
29. The firstborn are slain
31. The Israelites are driven out of the land
37. They come to Succoth
41. The time of their sojourning
43. The ordinance of the Passover














(32) And bless me also.--Here Pharaoh's humiliation reaches its extreme point. He is reduced by the terrible calamity of the last plague not only to grant all the demands made of him freely, and without restriction, but to crave the favour of a blessing from those whom he had despised, rebuked (Exodus 5:4), thwarted, and finally driven from his presence under the threat of death (Exodus 10:28). Those with whom were the issues of life and death must, he felt, have the power to bless or curse effectually.

Verse 32. - Also take your flocks and your herds. Pharaoh thus retracted the prohibition of Exodus 10:24, and "gave the sacrifices and burnt-offerings" which Moses had required (ib. ver. 25). Bless me also. Pharaoh was probably accustomed to receive blessings from his own priests, and had thus been led to value them. His desire for a blessing from Moses and Aaron, ere they departed, probably sprang from a conviction - based on the miracles which he had witnessed - that their intercession would avail more with God than that of his own hierarchy.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Take
קְח֛וּ (qə·ḥū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 3947: To take

your flocks
צֹאנְכֶ֨ם (ṣō·nə·ḵem)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock

and
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

herds
בְּקַרְכֶ֥ם (bə·qar·ḵem)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1241: Beef cattle, ox, a herd

as well,
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

just as
כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (ka·’ă·šer)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

you have said,
דִּבַּרְתֶּ֖ם (dib·bar·tem)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

and depart!
וָלֵ֑כוּ (wā·lê·ḵū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

And bless
וּבֵֽרַכְתֶּ֖ם (ū·ḇê·raḵ·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 1288: To kneel, to bless God, man, to curse

me
אֹתִֽי׃ (’ō·ṯî)
Direct object marker | first person common singular
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

also.”
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and


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