^{16 Ref} And he called for a famine upon the land; He brake the whole staff of bread.

^{17 Ref} He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant:

^{18 Ref} His feet they hurt with fetters: He was laid in `chains of' iron,

^{19 Ref} Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of Jehovah tried him.

^{20 Ref} The king sent and loosed him; Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

^{21 Ref} He made him lord of his house, And ruler of all his substance;

^{22 Ref} To bind his princes at his pleasure, And teach his elders wisdom.

^{23 Ref} Israel also came into Egypt; And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

^{24 Ref} And he increased his people greatly, And made them stronger than their adversaries.

^{25 Ref} He turned their heart to hate his people, To deal subtly with his servants.

^{26 Ref} He sent Moses his servant, `And' Aaron whom he had chosen.

^{27 Ref} They set among them his signs, And wonders in the land of Ham.

^{28 Ref} He sent darkness, and made it dark; And they rebelled not against his words.

^{29 Ref} He turned their waters into blood, And slew their fish.

^{30 Ref} Their land swarmed with frogs In the chambers of their kings.

^{31 Ref} He spake, and there came swarms of flies, And lice in all their borders.

^{32 Ref} He gave them hail for rain, `And' flaming fire in their land.

^{33 Ref} He smote their vines also and their fig-trees, And brake the trees of their borders.

^{34 Ref} He spake, and the locust came, And the grasshopper, and that without number,

³⁵ And did eat up every herb in their land, And did eat up the fruit of their ground.

^{36 Ref} He smote also all the first-born in their land, The chief of all their strength.