Exodus 12:33
Good News Translation
The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country; they said, "We will all be dead if you don't leave."

New Revised Standard Version
The Egyptians urged the people to hasten their departure from the land, for they said, “We shall all be dead.”

Contemporary English Version
The Egyptians did everything they could to get the Israelites to leave their country as quickly as possible. They said, "Please hurry and leave. If you don't, we will all be dead."

New American Bible
The Egyptians, in a hurry to send them away from the land, urged the people on, for they said, “All of us will die!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Egyptians pressed the people to go forth out of the land speedily, saying: We shall all die.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Egyptians pressed the people to go forth out of the land speedily, saying: We shall all die.

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Exodus 11:1 And the Lord said to Moses: Yet one plague more will I bring upon Pharao and Egypt, and after that he shall let you go, and thrust you out.

Psalm 105:38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon them.

we be all

Genesis 20:3 And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.

Numbers 17:12,13 And the children of Israel said to Moses: Behold we are consumed, we all perish. . . .

Context
The Exodus Begins
32Your sheep and herds take along with you, as you demanded, and departing bless me. 33And the Egyptians pressed the people to go forth out of the land speedily, saying: We shall all die.34The people therefore took dough before it was leavened; and tying it in their cloaks, put it on their shoulders.…
Cross References
Exodus 6:1
And the Lord said to Moses: Now thou shalt see what I will do to Pharao: for by a mighty hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he cast them out of his land.

Exodus 10:7
And Pharao's servants said to him: How long shall we endure this scandal? Iet the men go to sacrifice to the Lord their God. Dost thou not see that Egypt is undone?

Exodus 11:1
And the Lord said to Moses: Yet one plague more will I bring upon Pharao and Egypt, and after that he shall let you go, and thrust you out.

Exodus 12:39
And they baked the meal, which a little before they had brought out of Egypt in dough: and they made hearth cakes unleavened: for it could not be leavened, the Egyptians pressing them to depart, and not suffering them to make any stay; neither did they think of preparing any meat.

Psalm 105:38
Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon them.

Isaiah 52:12
For you shall not go out in a tumult, neither shall you make haste by flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will gather you together.

Daniel 3:22
For the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace was heated exceedingly. And the flame of the fire slew those men that had cast in Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago.

Exodus 12:32
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