Jacob's eleventh son, sold into Egypt by his brothers and risen to be its vizier — the man whose foresight in the famine saved Egypt and brought Jacob's household of seventy down to settle there (his story fills Genesis 37–50, not yet on this site). Exodus opens on the far side of his life: 'Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation' (1:6), and then the fatal hinge — 'a new king arose who did not know Joseph' (1:8). The rescue is forgotten; the rescued become slaves. His bones, by his own oath, will be carried out of Egypt at the Exodus (Genesis 50:25; Exodus 13:19) — the one man of Genesis who makes the journey home.