"He [Pharoah] called for Moses and Aaron by night and said, Rise up and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go serve the Lord Jehovah as ye have said and be gone and bless me also.
And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, we will be all dead men"
......................Exodus 12:31-33