Exodus 12:32 - Exposition

Also take your flocks and your herds . Pharaoh thus retracted the prohibition of Exodus 10:24 , and "gave the sacrifices and burnt-offerings" which Moses had required ( Exodus 10:25 ). Bless me also . Pharaoh was probably accustomed to receive blessings from his own priests, and had thus been led to value them. His desire for a blessing from Moses and Aaron, ere they departed, probably sprang from a conviction—based on the miracles which he had witnessed—that their intercession would avail more with God than that of his own hierarchy.