Bible Strands
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Pharaoh addresses Moses and Aaron immediately after the hail plague spares Goshen while striking Egypt. He speaks after the plague has run its course and before he requests prayer for its cessation.
The words — חָטָאתִי (cha.Ta.ti) literally means “I have sinned,” functioning as a direct verbal admission of personal guilt.
The thread — The explicit acknowledgment of the LORD’s righteousness appears in 2 Chronicles 12:6 and Psalms 129:4, where God’s justice is affirmed without a simultaneous confession of human guilt.
Why it lands — The text records Pharaoh’s admission of wickedness and his declaration of divine righteousness before any request for relief. A reader must first recognize the factual contrast between human failure and God’s justice before responding to the situation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
Cross-references
- Exodus 10:16 Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.
- 2 Chronicles 12:6 So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”
- Psalms 129:4 The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.
- Lamentations 1:18 The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
- Psalms 145:17 The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
- Numbers 22:34 “I have sinned,” Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “for I did not realize that you were standing in the road to confront me. And now, if this is displeasing in your sight, I will go back home.”
- Daniel 9:14 Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.
- Matthew 27:4 “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”
- Romans 2:5 But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
- Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.