Rather, he wants us to see Pharaoh as an archetype of the pattern of human rebellion that began in the garden and culminated in Babylon (Genesis 3-11). The author doesn’t want us to focus on one single king. It raises the interesting question of why the author doesn’t actually name the Pharaoh who opposed Moses (was he Thutmose II or III, or Ramses I or II?). If you pay attention, you’ll see that this royal title refers to a sequence of Egyptian kings over many generations. Pharoah is not one single king in Exodus.
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