saying, ¹  “Don’t touch my chosen ²  ones! Don’t harm my prophets!”

He called down a famine upon the earth; he cut off all the food supply. ¹ 

He sent a man ahead of them ¹  – Joseph was sold as a servant.

The shackles hurt his feet; ¹  his neck was placed in an iron collar, ² 

until the time when his prediction ¹  came true. The Lord’s word ²  proved him right. ³ 

The king authorized his release; ¹  the ruler of nations set him free.

He put him in charge of his palace, ¹  and made him manager of all his property,

giving him authority to imprison his officials ¹  and to teach his advisers. ² 

Israel moved to ¹  Egypt; Jacob lived for a time ²  in the land of Ham.

The Lord ¹  made his people very fruitful, and made them ²  more numerous than their ³  enemies.

He sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

They executed his miraculous signs among them, ¹  and his amazing deeds in the land of Ham.

He made it dark; ¹  they did not disobey his orders. ² 

He turned their water into blood, and killed their fish.

Their land was overrun by frogs, which even got into the rooms of their kings.

He ordered flies to come; ¹  gnats invaded their whole territory.

He sent hail along with the rain; ¹  there was lightning in their land. ² 

He ordered locusts to come, ¹  innumerable grasshoppers.

Egypt was happy when they left, for they were afraid of them. ¹ 

They asked for food, ¹  and he sent quails; he satisfied them with food from the sky. ²