14. God didn’t let anyone oppress them.God punished kings for their sake:
15. "Don’t touch my anointed ones;don’t harm my prophets!"
16. When God called for a famine in the land,destroying every source of food,
17. he sent a man ahead of them,who was sold as a slave: it was Joseph.
18. Joseph’s feet hurt in his shackles;his neck was in an iron collar,
19. until what he predicted actually happened,until what the Lord had said proved him true.
20. The king sent for Joseph and set him free;the ruler of many people released him.
21. The king made Joseph master of his house and ruler over everything he owned,
22. to make sure his princes acted according to his will,and to teach wisdom to his advisors.
23. That’s how Israel came to Egypt,how Jacob became an immigrant in the land of Ham.
24. God made his people very fruitful,more powerful than their enemies,
25. whose hearts God changed so they hated his peopleand dealt shrewdly with his servants.
26. God sent Moses his servantand the one he chose, Aaron.
27. They put God’s signs on Egypt,his marvelous works on the land of Ham.
28. God sent darkness, and it became dark,but the Egyptians rejected his word.
29. God turned their waters into bloodand killed their fish.
30. God made their land swarm with frogs—even in the bedrooms of their king!
31. God spoke, and the insects came—gnats throughout their whole country!
32. God turned their rain into hailalong with lightning flashes throughout their land.