Exodus 12:32

32 Take your flocks and herds, too, as you asked. Just go! And bless me, too!"

Exodus 12:32 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 12:32

Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said
Which they had insisted upon should go with them, but he had refused, but now he is willing they should go with them:

and be gone;
out of his city and country in all haste:

and bless me also;
or pray for me, as the Targum of Onkelos; pray the Lord to bestow a blessing upon me also, as I have done well by you in suffering you to depart with your whole families, flocks, and herds. The Targum of Jonathan is,

``I desire nothing else of you, only pray for me, that I die not;''

and so Jarchi. As he found his firstborn, and the heir to his crown and kingdom, was dead, he might justly fear it would be his case next, and perhaps very soon; and therefore desires their prayers for him, that his life might be spared.

Exodus 12:32 In-Context

30 Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the [other] Egyptians got up during the night. There was loud crying throughout Egypt because in every house someone had died.

31 Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron during the night. He said, "You and the Israelites must leave my people at once. Go, worship the LORD as you asked.

32 Take your flocks and herds, too, as you asked. Just go! And bless me, too!"

33 The Egyptians begged the people to leave the country quickly. They said, "Soon we'll all be dead!"

34 So the people picked up their bread dough before it had risen and carried it on their shoulders in bowls, wrapped up in their clothes.