Exodus 12:33

And the Egyptians are urgent on the people, hasting to send them away out of the land, for they said, 'We are all dead;'

Young's Literal Translation

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

32both your flock and your herd take ye, as ye have spoken, and go; then ye have blessed also me.'

34and the people taketh up its dough before it is fermented, their kneading-troughs [are] bound up in their garments on their shoulder.

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Cross References

Genesis 20:3And God cometh in unto Abimelech in a dream of the night, and saith to him, 'Lo, thou [art] a dead man, because of the woman whom thou hast taken — and she married to a husband.'

Exodus 11:1And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'One plague more I do bring in on Pharaoh, and on Egypt, afterwards he doth send you away from this; when he is sending you away, he surely casteth you out altogether from this [place];

Psalms 105:38Rejoiced hath Egypt in their going forth, For their fear 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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