Your sheep and herds take along with you, as you demanded, and departing, bless me.

both your flock and your herd take ye, as ye have spoken, and go; then ye have blessed also me.'

And take your flocks and your herds as you have said, and be gone; and give me your blessing.

Your sheep and herds take along with you, as you requested, and as you go away, bless me."

Etiam greges vestros, etiam armenta vestra accipite: sicuti dixistis: et ite, ac benedicite etiam mihi.

Bless me also - No words could show more strikingly the complete, though temporary, submission of Pharaoh.

Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and (p) bless me also.
(p) Pray for me.

Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said,.... Which they had insisted upon should go with them, but he had refused, but now he is willing they should go with them:
and be gone; out of his city and country in all haste:
and bless me also; or pray for me, as the Targum of Onkelos; pray the Lord to bestow a blessing upon me also, as I have done well by you in suffering you to depart with your whole families, flocks, and herds. The Targum of Jonathan is,"I desire nothing else of you, only pray for me, that I die not;''and so Jarchi. As he found his firstborn, and the heir to his crown and kingdom, was dead, he might justly fear it would be his case next, and perhaps very soon; and therefore desires their prayers for him, that his life might be spared.

also take your flocks, &c.--All the terms the king had formerly insisted on were now departed from; his pride had been effectually humbled. Appalling judgments in such rapid succession showed plainly that the hand of God was against him. His own family bereavement had so crushed him to the earth that he not only showed impatience to rid his kingdom of such formidable neighbors, but even begged an interest in their prayers.

Bless me also - Let me have your prayers, that I may not be plagued for what is past when you are gone.