King James Version
Exodus 12:32 in the King James Version says “Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 12 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.”
Exodus 12:32 · KJV
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
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“your flocks”
H6629a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“and your herds”
H1241a beeve or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“as ye have said”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“and bless”
H1288to kneel; by implication to bless god (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (god or the king, as
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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