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Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"
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Pharaoh's Utter Humiliation
Commentators unanimously view Pharaoh's request, "bless me also," as the peak of his humiliation. After repeatedly defying God and threatening Moses, the devastating final plague reduces him to begging for a blessing from the very people he oppressed. Scholars describe this as a moment of "complete, though temporary, submission," where the proud ruler is totally abased before the power of God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Bless me also- No words could show more strikingly the complete, though temporary, submission of Pharaoh.
19th Century
Anglican
And bless me also. —Here Pharaoh’s humiliation reaches its extreme point. He is reduced by the terrible calamity of the l…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said Which they had insisted upon should go with them, but he has …
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