Key Verse Spotlight
Exodus 12:32 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.”
Exodus 12:32
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for {there was} not a house where {there was} not one dead.
And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, {and} get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We {be} all dead {men}.
And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. {kneadingtroughs: or, dough}
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