Years earlier they had sold their half brother Joseph into slavery, planning to tell their father that he had been killed by a wild beast. ​ — Genesis 37: 18 - 35.
بیست سال از آن ماجرا گذشت ،‏ و قحطیی سخت این ده مرد را ملزم ساخت برای خریداری غلّه راهی مصر شوند .‏