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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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Exodus

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

On Exodus 12:32

18th Century

Theologian

Bless me also- No words could show more strikingly the complete, though temporary, submission of Pharaoh.

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

On Exodus 12:32

19th Century

Bishop

And bless me also. —Here Pharaoh’s humiliation reaches its extreme point. He is reduced by the terrible calamity of the l…

John Gill

John Gill

On Exodus 12:32

17th Century

Pastor

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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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On Exodus 12:29–36

17th Century

Minister

The Egyptians had been kept in anxiety and horror by the darkness for three days and nights; now their rest is broken by a far more terrible calami…