i
Joseph's brothers cast Joseph into a pit and from there he is picked up and is taken and is sold into slavery in Egypt.
So Joseph becomes Egypt's first Israelite slave.
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Joseph will not see his brothers or his father or any one of his family, after this, for twenty years.
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Joseph's presence in Egypt is what precipitates all the people of Israel's uprooting themselves and coming to Egypt.
In Egypt, all the people, eventually, will become slaves to Egypt themselves.
ii
When God frees the Children of Israel from Egypt, He commands the people to eat Passover meals according to the house of their fathers, on the very night that freedom comes.
iii
The destruction of family brings slavery.
When freedom comes, the family is joined back together.
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To be a slave is to be torn apart from family.
To be free is to be together with family.
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