Abraham started in his homeland of Ur which is modern day Iraq. God told Abraham to go to Canaan and live there. God also gave Abraham a promise that His descendants would be as numerous as the stars in the sky. Then in Canaan God told Abraham to sacrifice his son Issac. At the last minute God prevented Abraham from sacrificing his son and he sacrificed a ram instead.
Issac married Rebekah and they had two sons, Jacob and Esau. When Esau was very hungry Jacob had him sell his birthright to him in return for some stew. When the time came to give the birthright Rebekah helped Jacob in to tricking his father in to giving the birthright to him. When Esau realized this he was very angry and wanted to kill Jacob, so Jacob fled to his uncle Laban’s house.
Jacob worked for Laban for seven years to marry Laban’s daughter Rachel but ended up marrying his other daughter Leah. He worked seven more years for Laban to marry Rachel and then decided to go try and meet with Esau. Esau forgave Jacob and then near Bethlehem Rachel died giving birth to Benjamin. Jacob favored Joseph above his other sons and this made his brothers very jealous. They ended up selling him in to slavery and he went to Egypt to work for Potiphar. Joseph and ended up in prison and got out by interpreting the Pharaohs dreams.
The dreams meant that there would be a famine and now they should prepare a grain supply. His brothers fled to Egypt because of the famine and Joseph revealed himself and told them to bring the Hebrews to come live with him in Egypt. Eventually Moses would lead the Hebrews out of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Canaan.