Pharaoh

Scripture references

• Genesis 12:15

  When Pharaoh's officials saw her they sang her praises to Pharaoh and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's household.

• Genesis 12:17

  But Yahweh inflicted severe plagues on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram's wife Sarai.

• Genesis 12:19

  Why did you say, "She is my sister," so that I took her to be my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and go!'

• Genesis 37:36

  Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials and commander of the guard.

• Genesis 39:1

  Now Joseph had been taken down into Egypt. Potiphar the Egyptian, one of Pharaoh's officials and commander of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there.

• Genesis 39:20

  Joseph's master had him arrested and committed to the gaol where the king's prisoners were kept. And there in gaol he stayed.

• Genesis 40:2

  Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cup-bearer and the chief baker,

• Genesis 40:20

  And so it happened; the third day was Pharaoh's birthday and he gave a banquet for all his officials. Of his officials he lifted up the head of the chief cup-bearer and the chief baker,

• Genesis 40:21

  the chief cup-bearer by restoring him to his cup-bearing, so that he again handed Pharaoh his cup;

• Genesis 41:1

  Two years later it happened that Pharaoh had a dream: there he was, standing by the Nile,

• Genesis 41:14

  Then Pharaoh had Joseph summoned, and they hurried him from the dungeon. He shaved and changed his clothes, and presented himself before Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:41

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'I hereby make you governor of the whole of Egypt.'

• Genesis 41:55

  But when all Egypt too began to feel the famine and the people appealed to Pharaoh for food, Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, 'Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.'

• Genesis 44:18

  At this, Judah went up to him and said, 'May it please my lord, let your servant have a word privately with my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.

• Genesis 45:16

  News reached Pharaoh's palace that Joseph's brothers had come, and Pharaoh was pleased to hear it, as were his servants.

• Genesis 45:17

  Pharaoh told Joseph, 'Say to your brothers, "Do this: load your beasts and hurry away to Canaan.

• Genesis 45:18

  Fetch your father and your families, and come back to me. I will give you the best territory in Egypt, where you will live off the fat of the land."

• Genesis 46:5

  So Jacob left Beersheba. Israel's sons conveyed their father Jacob, their little children and their wives in the waggons Pharaoh had sent to fetch him.

• Genesis 46:31

  Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father's family, 'I shall go back and break the news to Pharaoh. I shall tell him, "My brothers and my father's family who were in Canaan have come to me.

• Genesis 47:3

  Pharaoh asked his brothers, 'What is your occupation?' and they gave Pharaoh the answer, 'Your servants are shepherds, like our fathers before us.'

• Genesis 47:5

  Then Pharaoh said to Joseph,'They may stay in the region of Goshen, and if you know of any capable men among them, put them in charge of my own livestock.' Jacob and his sons went to Egypt where Joseph was. Pharaoh king of Egypt heard about this and said to Joseph, 'Your father and brothers have come to you. The country of Egypt is open to you: settle your father and brothers in the best region.'

• Genesis 47:6

  The country of Egypt is open to you: settle your father and brothers in the best region.'

• Genesis 47:8

  Pharaoh asked Jacob, 'How many years have you lived?'

• Genesis 50:4

  When the period of mourning for him was over, Joseph said to Pharaoh's household, 'If you have any affection for me, see that this message reaches Pharaoh's ears,

• Genesis 50:6

  Pharaoh replied, 'Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.'

• Genesis 50:7

  Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went all Pharaoh's officials, the dignitaries of his palace and all the dignitaries of Egypt,

• Exodus 1:8

  Then there came to power in Egypt a new king who had never heard of Joseph.

• Exodus 1:11

  Accordingly they put taskmasters over the Israelites to wear them down by forced labour. In this way they built the store-cities of Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh.

• Exodus 1:15

  The king of Egypt then spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was called Shiphrah, and the other Puah.

• Exodus 1:18

  So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, 'What do you mean by allowing the boys to live?'

• Exodus 1:22

  Pharaoh then gave all his people this command: 'Throw every new-born boy into the river, but let all the girls live.'

• Exodus 2:15

  When Pharaoh heard of the matter, he tried to put Moses to death, but Moses fled from Pharaoh. He went into Midianite territory and sat down beside a well.

• Exodus 2:23

  During this long period the king of Egypt died. The Israelites, groaning in their slavery, cried out for help and from the depths of their slavery their cry came up to God.

• Exodus 3:10

  So now I am sending you to Pharaoh, for you to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.'

• Exodus 3:19

  I am well aware that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless he is compelled by a mighty hand;

• Exodus 4:21

  Yahweh said to Moses, 'Think of the wonders I have given you power to perform, once you are back in Egypt! You are to perform them before Pharaoh, but I myself shall make him obstinate, and he will not let the people go.

• Exodus 4:23

  I told you: Let my son go and worship me; but since you refuse to let him go, well then! I shall put your first-born son to death." '

• Exodus 5:2

  'Who is Yahweh,' Pharaoh replied, 'for me to obey what he says and let Israel go? I know nothing of Yahweh, and I will not let Israel go.'

• Exodus 5:6

  That very day, Pharaoh gave the order to the people's taskmasters and their scribes,

• Exodus 5:9

  Give these people more work to do, and see they do it instead of listening to lying speeches.'

• Exodus 5:17

  'You are lazy, lazy,' he retorted. 'That is why you say, "Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh."'

• Exodus 11:1

  Yahweh then said to Moses, 'I shall inflict one more plague on Pharaoh and Egypt, after which he will let you go away. When he lets you go, he will actually drive you out!

• Exodus 11:5

  and all the first-born in Egypt will die, from the first-born of Pharaoh, heir to his throne, to the first-born of the slave-girl at the mill, and all the first-born of the livestock.

• Exodus 11:9

  Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that more of my wonders may be displayed in Egypt.'

• Exodus 11:10

  Moses and Aaron worked all these wonders in Pharaoh's presence, but Yahweh made Pharaoh stubborn, and he did not let the Israelites leave his country.

• Exodus 12:29

  And at midnight Yahweh struck down all the first-born in Egypt from the first-born of Pharaoh, heir to his throne, to the first-born of the prisoner in the dungeon, and the first-born of all the livestock.

• Exodus 12:31

  It was still dark when Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, 'Up, leave my subjects, you and the Israelites! Go and worship Yahweh as you have asked!

• Exodus 12:32

  And take your flocks and herds as you have asked, and go! And bless me too!'

• Exodus 13:15

  When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, Yahweh killed all the first-born in Egypt, of man and beast alike. This is why I sacrifice every male first issuing from the womb to Yahweh and redeem every first-born of my sons."

• Exodus 13:17

  When Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not let them take the road to the Philistines' territory, although that was the shortest, 'in case', God thought, 'the prospect of fighting makes the people change their minds and turn back to Egypt.'

• Exodus 14:8

  Yahweh made Pharaoh king of Egypt stubborn, and he gave chase to the Israelites. The Israelites marched confidently away,

• Exodus 14:23

  The Egyptians gave chase, and all Pharaoh's horses, chariots and horsemen went into the sea after them.

• Exodus 15:4

  Pharaoh's chariots and army he has hurled into the sea the pick of his officers have been drowned in the Sea of Reeds.

• Exodus 15:19

  For when Pharaoh's cavalry, with his chariots and horsemen, had gone into the sea, Yahweh brought the waters of the sea back over them, though the Israelites went on dry ground right through the sea.

• Exodus 18:8

  Moses then told his father-in-law all about what Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and about all the hardships that they had encountered on the way, and how Yahweh had rescued them.

• Exodus 18:10

  'Blessed be Yahweh', Jethro exclaimed, 'for having rescued you from the clutches of the Egyptians and the clutches of Pharaoh, for having rescued the people from the grasp of the Egyptians!