Exodus 10:16
in Exodus 10Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.
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ASV
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against Jehovah your God, and against you.
KJV
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.
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This verse in Exodus 10
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron
on Exodus 10:16-17
Pharaoh says “I have sinned” a second time, after 9:27. He asks to be rid of this death, and Matthew Henry reads the request as fear of the plague.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste,.... Or, "hastened to call them" (t); sent messengers in all haste to fetch them, and desire them to come as soon as possible to him.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
the Lord brought an east wind--The rod of Moses was again raised, and the locusts came. They are natives of the desert and are only brought by an east wind into Egypt, where they sometimes come in sun-obscuring clouds, destroying in a few days every green blade in the track they traverse.
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The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיְמַהֵ֣ר | vaymaher | and he hurried | H4116 → | 68 times |
| פַּרְעֹ֔ה | paroh | Pharaoh | H6547 → | 274 times |
| לִקְרֹ֖א | likro' | to summon | H7121 → | 733 times |
| לְמֹשֶׁ֣ה | lemosheh | <to> Moses | H4872 → | 765 times |
| וּֽלְאַהֲרֹ֑ן | uleaharon | and <to> Aaron | H175 → | 347 times |
| וַיֹּ֗אמֶר | vaiyomer | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| חָטָ֛אתִי | chatati | I have sinned | H2398 → | 238 times |
| לַיהוָ֥ה | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֖ם | ʾeloheikhem | God your | H430 → | 2601 times |
| וְלָכֶֽם׃ | velakhem | and to <the> you |
וַיְמַהֵ֣רand he hurried
vaymaherH4116 →68 times
פַּרְעֹ֔הPharaoh
parohH6547 →274 times
לִקְרֹ֖אto summon
likro'H7121 →733 times
לְמֹשֶׁ֣ה<to> Moses
lemoshehH4872 →765 times
וּֽלְאַהֲרֹ֑ןand <to> Aaron
uleaharonH175 →347 times
וַיֹּ֗אמֶרand he said
vaiyomerH559 →5305 times
חָטָ֛אתִיI have sinned
chatatiH2398 →238 times
לַיהוָ֥הto Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֖םGod your
ʾeloheikhemH430 →2601 times
וְלָכֶֽם׃and to <the> you
velakhem
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Proverbs 28:13He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
it leads to
- 1 John 1:8–10
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- Psalms 32:3–5
When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
- Job 31:33
if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,
- Luke 15:18–24
I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
- Jeremiah 3:12–13
Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be…
- 1 John 1:8–10
Through
1 Samuel 15:24Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; I have transgressed the LORD’s commandment and your instructions, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
it leads to
- 2 Samuel 12:13
Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 51:12–13
“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
- 2 Samuel 12:13
Through
Exodus 9:27Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said. “The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 12:6
So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”
- 2 Chronicles 12:6
Where this verse is studied
On this page
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Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
