The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Exodus 12:33 in context
Exodus 12:30–36
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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.
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He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said!
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Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”
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The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”
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The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
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The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
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The LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.
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