Take your flocks and herds as well, just as you have said, and depart! And bless me also.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”
- KJV Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
- NKJV Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.”
- NASB Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also.”
- NLT Take your flocks and herds, as you said, and be gone. Go, but bless me as you leave.”
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Quick answer
Pharaoh tells them to take their flocks and herds and even asks Moses to bless him.
Overview
Pharaoh concedes everything he had earlier withheld, including the livestock, and astonishingly asks for a blessing. His plea reveals a man broken by judgment, though without true repentance, as later events show. The complete reversal underscores God's total victory and the futility of resisting His will to set His people free for His service.
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Cross-references · 6
- Exod 10:26Even 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.”
- Gen 27:34When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”
- Gen 27:38Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
- Exod 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.”
- Exod 8:28Pharaoh answered, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.”
- Exod 9:28Pray to the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not need to stay any longer.”
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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