And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.

And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness.

Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.