Exodus 10:17 - Exposition

Only this once . Compare Genesis 18:32 . Pharaoh kept this promise. He did not ask any more for the removal of a plague. This death only — i.e . "this fatal visitation"—this visitation, which, by producing famine, causes numerous deaths in a nation. Pharaoh feels now, as his courtiers had felt when the plague was first threatened, that "Egypt is destroyed" ( Genesis 18:7 ).