Exodus 12:32
“Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!””
What does Exodus 12:32 mean?
Pharaoh speaks these words as the final plague—the death of all firstborn sons—devastates Egypt. After losing his own son, he's desperate to end the suffering and tells Moses to leave immediately with all the Hebrew people, their animals, and everything else. His final request, "bless me also," shows a man broken and humbled, turning to the God of the people he's been oppressing and hoping they might intercede for him. It's a striking moment of reversal: the most powerful ruler in Egypt is now begging an enslaved people to pray for his blessing.