Exodus 12:33

And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out of the land in haste; for they said: 'We are all dead men.'

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

32Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.'

34And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

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Cross References

Genesis 20:3But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him: 'Behold, thou shalt die, because of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.'

Exodus 11:1And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Yet one plague more will I bring upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence; when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.

Psalms 105:38Egypt was glad when they departed; for the fear of them had fallen upon them.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:30-37

The Death of the Firstborn. ( b. c. 1491.) 29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. 30 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. 31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said,… Read the whole commentary →

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