KJV ORIGINAL
Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
Also take your flocks and your herds, just as you said you would, and leave; and bless me too.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Pharaoh is telling Moses to take all the Israelites and their animals and leave Egypt immediately, and he's asking Moses to bless him as well.
📚 Historical Context
This is Pharaoh's response after the final plague - the death of the firstborn - struck Egypt. After losing his own son and seeing the devastation throughout his kingdom, Pharaoh finally agrees to let the Israelites go free. His request for a blessing shows how completely his attitude has changed from defiance to desperate pleading.
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