Bless Me Also - Exodus 12:29-32

Exodus 12:29-32 ESV 

At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. And 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 someone was not dead. Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said. Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!”

When Pharaoh asked for a blessing, it was an admission of defeat. Pharaoh had perceived himself as a God and no one was greater than he, but he was proven wrong. 

It is the greater that blesses the lesser. Pharaoh told Moses he did not know of his God when Moses first came to ask for the freedom of the Israelites. The Hebrew word  translated as "bless" has the meaning of kneeling before another. He learned at last what it meant to acknowledge someone greater than himself. 

We must all come to same place as Pharaoh. God is before us and all things. Hopefully it will not take ten plagues before we can see the light. 

(1384] 1 בָּרַךְ bārak 3x [Q] to kneel down; [H] to make kneel [1288]) Mounce,