Pharaoh appears in the Book of Mormon only in references to the Exodus, where his armies pursued the fleeing Israelites and were drowned in the Red Sea. Nephi cites the event twice: in urging his brothers to recover the brass plates, he tells them to be strong like Moses, who spoke to the waters of the Red Sea so they divided and let the Israelites pass out of captivity on dry ground, while the armies of Pharaoh followed and drowned (1 Nephi 4:2). He immediately draws a direct typological parallel, declaring that “the Lord is able to deliver us, even as our fathers, and to destroy Laban, even as the Egyptians” (1 Nephi 4:3) — making Pharaoh’s drowned armies a type of Laban and the brass-plate retrieval a re-enactment of the Mosaic deliverance. Later, reasoning with Laman and Lemuel during the journey in the wilderness, Nephi reminds them that the Egyptians who drowned in the Red Sea were the armies of Pharaoh (1 Nephi 17:27).