Exodus 9:27 - Exposition

And Pharaoh sent . Compare Exodus 8:8 , and Exodus 8:25-28 . Pharaoh had been driven to entreat only twice before. I have sinned this time . The meaning is, " I acknowledge this time that I have sinned" (Kaliseh, Cook). " I do not any longer maintain that my conduct has been right." The confession is made for the first time, and seems to have been extorted by the terrible nature of the plague, which, instead of passing off, like most storms, continued. The Lord is righteous , etc. Literally, "Jehovah is the Just One; and I and my people are the sinners." The confession seems, at first sight, ample and satisfactory; but there is perhaps some shifting of sin, that was all his own, upon the Egyptian " people ," which indicates disingenuousness.