Exodus 12:33

And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to make haste to send them away out of the land; for they said, We are all dying.

Leeser Tanakh

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

32Also your flocks and your herds take, as ye have spoken, and be gone; and bless me also.

34And the people took up their dough before it was yet 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 by night, and said to him, Behold, thou shalt die for the sake 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; after that he will let you go hence: when he doth let you go, he shall surely thrust you out altogether from here.

Psalms 105:38Egypt rejoiced when they departed; for the dread of them was 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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