What happensPermalink
Joseph reveals his identity to his brothers. He tells them to go get Jacob and his family and bring them into Egypt to rescue them from the famine. The brothers return to Canaan.
Why it mattersPermalink
Joseph correctly casts his brothers’ selling him into slavery as God’s preparing the way for Jacob’s family to be preserved. It is this invitation that brings Israel down into Egypt for the next four hundred years.
Key versePermalink
Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, “Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.”