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The scriptures mention a pharaoh at the time of Joseph, another who enslaved the Israelites and a third who eventually let the Israelites go, but none of these is mentioned by name.

Scholars say that the relevant books, Genesis and Exodus were not written until well into the first millennium BCE, long after the times attributed to these events. The names of the pharaohs were not passed down through successive generations and, no matter how true the events might have been, the biblical authors had no way of knowing the names of Egyptian pharaohs who lived so many centuries earlier.

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Presumably, either because of Pharaoh's wickedness or because his name was not germane to the lesson of the Exodus.

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