Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 12:32
Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
32. as ye have said ] See Exo 10:9; Exo 10:26 (J).
and bless me also ] viz. at the festival which you are about to hold: include me as well as yourselves in the blessings which you will then invoke.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Bless me also – No words could show more strikingly the complete, though temporary, submission of Pharaoh.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
32. also take your flocks,c.All the terms the king had formerly insisted on were nowdeparted from his pride had been effectually humbled. Appallingjudgments in such rapid succession showed plainly that the hand ofGod was against him. His own family bereavement had so crushed him tothe earth that he not only showed impatience to rid his kingdom ofsuch formidable neighbors, but even begged an interest in theirprayers.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said,…. Which they had insisted upon should go with them, but he had refused, but now he is willing they should go with them:
and be gone; out of his city and country in all haste:
and bless me also; or pray for me, as the Targum of Onkelos; pray the Lord to bestow a blessing upon me also, as I have done well by you in suffering you to depart with your whole families, flocks, and herds. The Targum of Jonathan is,
“I desire nothing else of you, only pray for me, that I die not;”
and so Jarchi. As he found his firstborn, and the heir to his crown and kingdom, was dead, he might justly fear it would be his case next, and perhaps very soon; and therefore desires their prayers for him, that his life might be spared.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(32) And bless me also.Here Pharaohs humiliation reaches its extreme point. He is reduced by the terrible calamity of the last plague not only to grant all the demands made of him freely, and without restriction, but to crave the favour of a blessing from those whom he had despised, rebuked (Exo. 5:4), thwarted, and finally driven from his presence under the threat of death (Exo. 10:28). Those with whom were the issues of life and death must, he felt, have the power to bless or curse effectually.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 12:32. And bless me also That is, not only freely depart, but pray for a blessing upon me and my people, at this dreadful hour of destruction; and intreat the Lord to deliver us from the imminent danger of this plague.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Exo 12:32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
Ver. 32. Bless me also. ] So Maximinus, the persecutor, being sorely diseased, sent to beg the prayers of the Church. “In their month you shall find” these wild asses. Jer 2:24
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
take your flocks. See note on Exo 10:25, Exo 10:26, and Exo 10:5.
as = according as.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
your flocks: Exo 10:26
bless me: Exo 8:28, Exo 9:28, Gen 27:34, Gen 27:38
Reciprocal: Gen 47:7 – And Jacob Exo 8:8 – and I will Num 12:11 – I beseech thee Deu 16:3 – for thou camest 1Ki 1:47 – bless 1Ki 13:6 – now Act 8:24 – Pray
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
12:32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and {p} bless me also.
(p) Pray for me.