And Achan answered Joshua, “Truly I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and this is what I did:
I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.
saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.”
He sings before men and says: ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.
If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?
Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may bow before the Lord your God.”
Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
Then Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood in the road against me. Now therefore, if it is evil in your sight, I will turn back.”
Then Pharaoh hastily called Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.
Then they said to one another, “In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
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