He returns from self-imposed exile to Canaan, where he brings up his twelve sons and one daughter. • Joseph’s Story. Joseph, second youngest of Jacob’s sons, is hated by his brothers for his boasting. They sell him to slave traders bound for Egypt. But the roles are reversed when Joseph becomes governor of Egypt just before a famine.… • Into Slavery. Abraham’s children had been promised a land of their own. But 600 years after Abraham they are slaves to the Egyptian people. • Exit from Egypt. The