The first biblical pharaoh

While I was reading Genesis 12 I realized that Abram also had met other kings. Moreover, he had one experience with the Egypt Pharaoh even before the he clashed Chedorlaomer and his army. This even is know as the first event in the wife-sister narratives. In this case Abram fled Canaan because of a severe famine that desolated Canaan, and consequently sojourn in the southwest country of Egypt. In this case Abram wife Sarai, was a beautiful woman. For that reason, Abram was worried of his security. It was common that in those days that if someone liked someones wife. he will kill the husband to take the wife for himself. Abram was aware of that practice and asked Sarai to say that she was his sister rather that his wife.

After they settle in Egypt, Egyptians started noticing the beauty of Sarai. Furthermore, the princes of pharaoh also knew of her and commented that before pharaoh. For that reason Abram and Sarai were invited to pharaoh's house, where pharaoh decided to take her for wife and reward Abram with cattle and servants. However, Yahweh did not approved such union and punished pharaoh by sending plagues over him and his house. According to the Jewish encyclopedia the punishment over the pharaohs house was to protect the covenant between Abram and Yahweh.

Information that lead to identify which Pharaoh was this is extremely scarce and almost nonexistent. There exist some theories that relate this Pharaoh with Khufu the pharaoh who ordered the construction of the pyramid of However, there are no one scientific proof that can validate that theory, for that reason it will be necessary to do more research in order to find out who this pharaoh was.