What Does Exodus 10:16 Mean in the King James?
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
This confession names a double breach, against the LORD and against the person addressed, so the missed mark is relational, not merely private.
THE MEANING
When failure is named, its reach becomes visible: the breach can be against God and against the person in front of you. The Hebrew behind “sinned” carries the sense of missing; confession brings that miss into speech. Urgency can bring words into the open, but by itself it does not show that the course has turned.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Wrongdoing is only between me and God.
THE ROOT
חָטָאתִי
chata'ti
GROWS FROM
חטא
chata
To miss, fail to reach, or do wrong.
The word translated “sinned” grows from a root of missing. The confession brings that miss into speech and names whom it is against: the LORD and the person addressed.
ALSO GROWS
chet: Missing; sin.
חֵטְא
This noun makes the root’s sense of a miss audible beneath the familiar word “sin.”
chatta't: Sin; an offering for the missing.
חַטָּאת
The same word-family can name both the wrong and an offering associated with it, keeping the missing and its remedy connected.
THE PATTERN
Confession brings wrongdoing into the open by naming it instead of covering it.
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.THE THREAD
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.The same Hebrew root sits behind “I have sinned” in both verses. The repeated confession lets you hear that naming the miss can recur under pressure; the word names the failure, while the response reveals what follows.
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