Verse (Click for Chapter) 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 ... Context The Exodus Begins31Then 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… Jump to Previous Bless Blessed Blessing Flock Flocks Herd HerdsJump to Next Bless Blessed Blessing Flock Flocks Herd HerdsExodus 12 1. The beginning of the year is changed3. 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 Takeקְח֛וּ (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 Links Exodus 12:32 NIVExodus 12:32 NLT Exodus 12:32 ESV Exodus 12:32 NASB Exodus 12:32 KJV Exodus 12:32 BibleApps.com Exodus 12:32 Biblia Paralela Exodus 12:32 Chinese Bible Exodus 12:32 French Bible Exodus 12:32 Catholic Bible OT Law: Exodus 12:32 Take both your flocks and your herds (Exo. 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