God creates a famine in Canaan where Israel is living with his 11 sons. Joseph his 12th and most favorite son is off in Egypt getting ready to save everybody from starvation. But Israel, his dad, doesn't know that, Israel thinks that Joseph is dead. So God creates this famine and essentially drives Israel down to Egypt looking for food. After some shenanigans by Joseph, he convinces the whole family to move to Egypt. So the point is God creates a famine, God provides food in Egypt, and God moves his chosen people out of the promised Land and into a pagan land that God wants to punish. Then God waits for everybody to die of old age, and then rather than having the people of Israel, now multiplying, move back to Canaan and back to the promised land where they belong, God has them stay and become victims of cruel Egyptian kings. You may have noticed that God is doing all this. So now God gets ready to bring the nation of Israel out of Egypt and back to the promised land where they b...
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