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IV

16 Then he called down a famine on the land,
    destroyed the grain that sustained them.[a](A)
17 He had sent a man ahead of them,
    Joseph, sold as a slave.(B)
18 They shackled his feet with chains;
    collared his neck in iron,(C)
19 Till his prediction came to pass,
    and the word of the Lord proved him true.(D)
20 The king sent and released him;
    the ruler of peoples set him free.(E)
21 He made him lord over his household,
    ruler over all his possessions,(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 105:16 The grain that sustained them: lit., every “staff of bread.”