Exodus 12:32

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

גַּם־צֹאנְכֶ֨ם גַּם־בְּקַרְכֶ֥ם קְח֛וּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבַּרְתֶּ֖ם וָלֵ֑כוּ וּבֵֽרַכְתֶּ֖ם גַּם־אֹתִֽי׃

Transliteration

Gam-ṣōʾnḵem gam-bəqarḵem qəḥū as kaʾăšer dibbartem and-wālēḵū and-ḇēraḵtem gam-ʾōṯî.

Grammar Details

*gam*: adverb - also/even
*ṣōʾnḵem*: noun feminine singular with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your flocks
*bəqarḵem*: noun masculine singular with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your cattle
*qəḥū*: qal imperative masculine plural - take
*kaʾăšer*: preposition + relative pronoun - as/just as
*dibbartem*: piel perfect 2nd masculine plural - you have spoken
*wālēḵū*: waw conjunctive + qal imperative masculine plural - and go
*ḇēraḵtem*: piel perfect 2nd masculine plural - you shall bless
*ʾōṯî*: direct object marker with 1st person singular suffix - me

Word Meanings

*ṣōʾnḵem*: your flocks/your sheep and goats
*bəqarḵem*: your cattle/your herds
*qəḥū*: take/bring/lead away
*ḇēraḵtem*: bless/praise/speak well of

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Referenced Verses

Exod 10:26 : 26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve Jehovah our God; and we know not with what we must serve Jehovah, until we come thither.
Gen 27:34 : 34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.
Gen 27:38 : 38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
Exod 8:28 : 28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to Jehovah your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: entreat for me.
Exod 9:28 : 28 Entreat Jehovah; for there hath been enough of [these] mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.
Exod 10:9 : 9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto Jehovah.

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