CBC Full Service - The Move to Egypt and Beginnings of Slavery

After learning the joyful news that Joseph was still alive and now the second highest official in Egypt, Jacob worshiped the Lord at Beersheba and then moved the entire family to Goshen at the invitation of Joseph and Pharaoh. Joseph's management of the famine laid the groundwork for Israel's eventual enslavement after the Egyptians sold themselves and their lands into servitude to Pharaoh in order to survive.