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Exodus 10:16

in Exodus 10

Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

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.

This verse in Exodus 10

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This 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 & Brown

1802–1910

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 words

Every 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.

  • 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 stops

Each 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 28:13

    He 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…

  • Through

    1 Samuel 15:24

    Then 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?

  • Through

    Exodus 9:27

    Then 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.”

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

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.