Psalm 105:10-23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
10 which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute,
to Israel as an everlasting covenant,(A)
11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
as your portion for an inheritance.”(B)
12 When they were few in number,
of little account and strangers in it,(C)
13 wandering from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another people,
14 he allowed no one to oppress them;
he rebuked kings on their account,(D)
15 saying, “Do not touch my anointed ones;
do my prophets no harm.”
16 When he summoned famine against the land
and cut off every supply of bread,[a](E)
17 he had sent a man ahead of them,
Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.(F)
18 His feet were hurt with fetters;
his neck was put in a collar of iron;(G)
19 until what he had said came to pass,
the word of the Lord kept testing him.(H)
20 The king sent and released him;
the ruler of the peoples set him free.(I)
21 He made him lord of his house
and ruler of all his possessions,(J)
22 to instruct[b] his officials at his pleasure
and to teach his elders wisdom.
23 Then Israel came to Egypt;
Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.(K)
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