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16 When he summoned famine against the land
    and cut off every supply of bread,[a](A)
17 he had sent a man ahead of them,
    Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.(B)
18 His feet were hurt with fetters;
    his neck was put in a collar of iron;(C)
19 until what he had said came to pass,
    the word of the Lord kept testing him.(D)
20 The king sent and released him;
    the ruler of the peoples set him free.(E)
21 He made him lord of his house
    and ruler of all his possessions,(F)
22 to instruct[b] his officials at his pleasure
    and to teach his elders wisdom.

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Footnotes

  1. 105.16 Heb staff of bread
  2. 105.22 Gk Syr Jerome: Heb to bind