Joseph יוסף הצדיק
son of Yaakov and Rachel, viceroy of Egypt
Yosef was born in Charan in 2199, Rachel's first son. His father favoured him openly — the striped coat made it visible — and he told his brothers dreams in which they bowed to him. In 2216 they threw him into a pit and sold him to Egypt.
There he goes all the way down: slave in Potiphar's house, steward, then prisoner on a false charge. In prison he interprets the dreams of the cupbearer and the baker, and two years later is summoned to Pharaoh. Seven cows, seven ears of grain — and Yosef not only explains but proposes a plan. At thirty he becomes the second man in Egypt.
When his brothers come for grain he recognises them; they do not recognise him. He tests them hard, until Yehuda offers himself in place of Binyamin — and then: «I am Yosef your brother», with the line that redeems everything: «It was not you who sent me here, but God.»
He lived 110 years, dying in 2309, and made his brothers swear to carry his bones out of Egypt.