🔥WEB · Exodus 10:17
What does Exodus 10:17 mean?
"Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”"
— Exodus 10:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, nor will there ever be again.
For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.
Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”
He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.
Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go.
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