Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; 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.
- BSB Take your flocks and herds as well, just as you have said, and depart! 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 10:26Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don’t know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there.”
- Gen 27:34When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”
- Gen 27:38Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
- Exod 10:9Moses said, “We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh.”
- Exod 8:28Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me.”
- Exod 9:28Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no 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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