Éxodo 12:33

33 Y los egipcios apremiaban al pueblo, dándose prisa en echarlos de la tierra, porque decían: Todos seremos muertos.

Éxodo 12:33 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 12:33

And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people
The people of Israel; not using force, but strong entreaties, the most powerful arguments, and importunate language they were masters of:

that they might send them out of the land in haste:
this looks as if it was the people about Pharaoh, his ministers and courtiers, they were pressing upon to dismiss the Israelites at once, and to hasten their departure; or else Moses and Aaron, and the elders of the people, to stir them up to a quick dispatch of their affairs, that they might be soon rid of them; unless the sense is, that they were very solicitous and earnest with the people, that they would get away out of the land as fast as they could:

for they said, we [be] all dead [men];
for their firstborn being all slain, they expected that they themselves, and the rest of their families, would be struck with death next; and this they feared would be the case in a very little time, if they did not depart;

for they had sufficient reason to convince them,
that it was purely on their account, and because they had not leave to go out of the land, that all the above judgments, and particularly the last, were inflicted on them.

Éxodo 12:33 In-Context

31 Entonces llamó a Moisés y a Aarón aún de noche, y dijo: Levantaos y salid de entre mi pueblo, vosotros y los hijos de Israel; e id, adorad al SEÑOR, como habéis dicho.

32 Tomad también vuestras ovejas y vuestras vacadas, como habéis dicho, e idos, y bendecidme también a mí.

33 Y los egipcios apremiaban al pueblo, dándose prisa en echarlos de la tierra, porque decían: Todos seremos muertos.

34 Tomó, pues, el pueblo la masa, antes que fuera leudada, en sus artesas de amasar envueltas en paños, y se las llevaron sobre sus hombros.

35 Los hijos de Israel hicieron según las instrucciones de Moisés, pues pidieron a los egipcios objetos de plata, objetos de oro y ropa.