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Joseph (one of the 12 son's of Jacob/Israel) was sold into slavery by his brothers and taken to Egypt. Not really an exile, but he was brought "by chance" there. His family ends up reconnecting with him during a famine; and from there they grow to be over 1 million (estimated, of course.)

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