Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in
haste
Or, "hastened to call them" F20; sent messengers in all
haste to fetch them, and desire them to come as soon as possible
to him. Thus he who a few hours ago drove them from his presence,
in a hurry, sends for them to come to him with all speed, which
the present circumstances he was in required:
and he said to Moses and Aaron:
when they were brought into his presence:
I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against
you;
against the Lord by disobeying his command, in refusing to let
Israel go, when he had so often required it of him; and against
Moses and Aaron his ambassadors, whom he had treated with
contempt, and had drove them from his presence with disgrace; and
against the people of Israel, whom they personated, by retaining
them, and using them so ill as he had. This confession did not
arise from a true sense of sin, as committed against God, nor
indeed does he in it own Jehovah to be his God, only the God of
Moses and Aaron, or of the Israelites; but from the fright he was
in, and fear of punishment continued upon him, to the utter ruin
of him and his people.