Now forgive my sin once more and pray to the Lord your God to take this deadly plague away from me. Pharaoh asks for forgiveness and prayer. The phrase once more acknowledges the pattern — he has asked before, the request has been honored, the relief has produced hardness. He is asking again for the same cycle. The word deadly plague used for the locusts is the same word used in verse 14 — not just the Egyptian word for locust but specifically the framing of a mortal threat. Pharaoh is not confused about the stakes; he is choosing short-term relief over long-term response. 1 John 1:9 promises that if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just and will forgive us and purify us from all unrighteousness — but the purification requires surrender, not just confession. Pharaoh keeps confessing without surrendering.

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