God does a little scheming and sends Pharaoh a couple dreams which none of his mages or advisors can interpret for him This jogs the memory of the cup-bearer who tells him about Joseph. Joseph comes in and tells the Pharaoh that there are going to be 7 years of good crops then 7 years of terrible famine and that he should start a government program to collect all the extra grain so they have something for later when all the crops start failing.
Pharaoh puts Joseph in charge of the program, and basically the entire country. He gives him lots of power and nice things, a pretty wife and a big house. Joseph has two sons, Ephram and Manassah.
When the famine strikes, just like Joseph said, Pharaoh is as impressed with Joseph as ever, so he’s the one you had to go talk to if you wanted to buy some grain. Canaan was having the same drought as Egypt, so Jacob and his sons needed to buy some of that grain Joseph had stored up. When they arrived, Joseph called them spies and started messing with them. They didn’t recognize it was Joseph so they were freaking out. They had left the youngest of them, Benjamin, at home so Joseph told them to go back and get him. As collateral, he kept Simeon.
When they returned to Jacob, he was really upset. He didn’t want to let them take Benjamin. Benjamin and Joseph were the only sons of Rachel, Jacobs favorite wife, so he was extra worried about possibly losing them both. He refuses to let the other brothers take Benjamin, essentially saying that he’d rather have Benjamin that Simeon.
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