Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
Also take your flocks and your herds, just as you said you would, and leave; and bless me too.
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
During the Exodus, after the plague of the firstborn that struck Egypt, Pharaoh desperately urged the Israelites to leave the land immediately, as God's judgments had finally broken his resistance. He instructed them to take their flocks and herds as they had requested, fully acknowledging their demands after holding them back for so long. Additionally, Pharaoh's plea for a blessing from Moses revealed a moment of fear and temporary recognition of the God of Israel's superior power.
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