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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Exodus 12:32

Take your flocks and herds as well, just as you have said, and depart! And bless me also."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Bereavement;   Conviction;   Egyptians;   Intercession;   Israel;   Miracles;   Passover;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Egypt;   Ox, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Passover;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Pharaoh;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Celebrate, Celebration;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Passover;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Exodus, the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Moses;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Moses;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Passover (I.);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Passover;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Plagues of egypt;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Exodus, the,;   Pass'over,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Plagues of Egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Exodus, the;   On to Sinai;   Hebrew Calendar;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Charm;   Magic;   Moses;   Passover;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafá¹­arah;   Law, Reading from the;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"
King James Version
Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
Lexham English Bible
Take both your sheep and goats as well as your cattle, and go, and bless also me."
New Century Version
Take all of your flocks and herds as you have asked, and go. And also bless me."
New English Translation
Also, take your flocks and your herds, just as you have requested, and leave. But 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."
New American Standard Bible
"Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Take also your sheepe and your cattell as yee haue sayde, & depart, and blesse me also.
Legacy Standard Bible
Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have spoken, and go, and bless me also."
Contemporary English Version
Take your sheep, goats, and cattle, and get out. But ask your God to be kind to me."
Complete Jewish Bible
Take both your flocks and your herds, as you said; and get out of here! But bless me, too."
Darby Translation
Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and go; and bless me also.
Easy-to-Read Version
Take all of your sheep and cattle with you, just as you said you would. Go! And say a blessing for me too."
English Standard Version
Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!"
George Lamsa Translation
Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
Good News Translation
Take your sheep, goats, and cattle, and leave. Also pray for a blessing on me."
Christian Standard Bible®
Take even your flocks and your herds as you asked and leave, and also bless me.”
Literal Translation
Take both your flocks and your herds, as you said, and go. And bless me also.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and take youre shepe and youre oxen with you, as ye haue sayde, and departe, and blesse me also.
American Standard Version
Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
Bible in Basic English
And take your flocks and your herds as you have said, and be gone; and give me your blessing.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And take your sheepe and your droues with you as ye haue sayde: and depart, and blesse me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.'
King James Version (1611)
Also take your flockes and your heards, as ye haue said: and bee gone, and blesse me also.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And take with you your sheep, and your oxen: bless me also, I pray you.
English Revised Version
Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
take ye youre scheep and greete beestis, as ye axiden; and go ye, and blesse ye me.
Young's Literal Translation
both your flock and your herd take ye, as ye have spoken, and go; then ye have blessed also me.'
Update Bible Version
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!"
New King James Version
Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also."
New Living Translation
Take your flocks and herds, as you said, and be gone. Go, but bless me as you leave."
New Life Bible
Take your flocks and your cattle, as you have said, and go. And pray that good will come to me also."
New Revised Standard
Take your flocks and your herds, as you said, and be gone. And bring a blessing on me too!"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
also, your flocks and your herds, take ye, as ye spake and go your way, - so shall ye bless, even me.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Your sheep and herds take along with you, as you demanded, and departing bless me.
Revised Standard Version
Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also."

Contextual Overview

29Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock. 30During the night Pharaoh got up-he and all his officials and all the Egyptians-and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead. 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!" 34So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing. 35Furthermore, the Israelites acted on Moses' word and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold, and for clothing. 36And the LORD gave the people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that they granted their request. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

your flocks: Exodus 10:26

bless me: Exodus 8:28, Exodus 9:28, Genesis 27:34, Genesis 27:38

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:7 - And Jacob Exodus 8:8 - and I will Numbers 12:11 - I beseech thee Deuteronomy 16:3 - for thou camest 1 Kings 1:47 - bless 1 Kings 13:6 - now Acts 8:24 - Pray

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bless me also - No words could show more strikingly the complete, though temporary, submission of Pharaoh.


 
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