Exodus 12:33

The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”

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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 you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”

34The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on 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, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”

Exodus 11:1The LORD said to Moses, “I will bring yet one more plague on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.

Psalms 105:38Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on 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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