What did Joseph tell the children of Israel about God bringing them out of Egypt?
Joseph told the children of Israel that God would surely visit them and bring them out of Egypt into the land He had sworn to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He took an oath from them that when God visited them, they must carry his bones up from Egypt back to Canaan.
Les explains that Joseph, knowing he would die in Egypt, told his brethren—the rest of the families of Jacob—that God would surely visit them and bring them out of Egypt. The destination was the land God had sworn to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Joseph then took an oath of the children of Israel, saying God would surely visit them, and they were to carry his bones from Egypt back to Canaan. Les also notes that Genesis ends with Joseph in a coffin in Egypt, but God buries His servants, never His program.