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¹⁶When he summoned famine against the land, and broke every staff of bread,

¹⁷he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

¹⁸His feet were hurt with fetters, his neck was put in a collar of iron;

¹⁹until what he had said came to pass, the word of the Lord kept testing him.

²⁰The king sent and released him; the ruler of the peoples set him free.

²¹He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions,

²²to instruct his officials at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

²³Then Israel came to Egypt; Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.

²⁴And the Lord made his people very fruitful, and made them stronger than their foes,

²⁵whose hearts he then turned to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.