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32 Take your flocks, too, and your herds, as you said, and go; and bless me, too!”[a]

33 The Egyptians, in a hurry to send them away from the land, urged the people on, for they said, “All of us will die!” 34 The people, therefore, took their dough before it was leavened, in their kneading bowls wrapped in their cloaks on their shoulders.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:32 Bless me, too: in a final and humiliating admission of defeat, once again Pharaoh asks Moses to intercede for him (cf. 8:24). However, Pharaoh may be speaking sarcastically.

32 Take your flocks and herds,(A) as you have said, and go. And also bless(B) me.”

33 The Egyptians urged the people to hurry(C) and leave(D) the country. “For otherwise,” they said, “we will all die!”(E) 34 So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs(F) wrapped in clothing.

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