Éxodo 12:33

33 El pueblo egipcio, por su parte, instaba a los israelitas a que abandonaran pronto el país. «De lo contrario —decían—, ¡podemos darnos por 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 Esa misma noche mandó llamar el faraón a Moisés y a Aarón, y les ordenó: «¡Largo de aquí! ¡Aléjense de mi pueblo ustedes y los israelitas! ¡Vayan a adorar al SEÑOR, como lo han estado pidiendo!

32 Llévense también sus rebaños y sus ganados, como lo han pedido, ¡pero váyanse ya, que para mí será una bendición!»

33 El pueblo egipcio, por su parte, instaba a los israelitas a que abandonaran pronto el país. «De lo contrario —decían—, ¡podemos darnos por muertos!»

34 Entonces los israelitas tomaron las artesas de masa todavía sin leudar y, luego de envolverlas en sus ropas, se las echaron al hombro.

35 Después, siguiendo las instrucciones que Moisés les había dado, pidieron a los egipcios que les dieran objetos de oro y de plata, y también ropa.