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 no harm! " It) Then He called up a famine over the land, Every staff of bread He brake.

17 He sent before them a man, As a slave was Joseph sold.

18 They hurt his feet with fetters, Iron came upon his soul,

19 Until the time that his word came, The word of Jahve had proved him.

20 The king sent and loosed him,

The ruler of the peoples, and let him go free ,*

21 He made him lord of his house, And ruler over all his possession,

22 To bind his princes at his will, And to make his elders wiser.

23 Thus Israel came to Egypt,

And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

24 And He made His people fruitful exceedingly, And made them more powerful than their enemies.

25 He turned their heart to hate His people, To practise cunning on His servants ;

26 He sent Moses His servant, Aaron, whom He had chosen.

27 They performed upon them facts of His signs, And strange things in the land of Ham.

28 He sent darkness and made it dark, And they rebelled not against His words ;

29 He turned their waters into blood, And thus killed their fish.

30 Their land swarmed forth frogs In the chambers of their kings.

31 He spake, and the gad-fly came, Gnats in all their border.

32 He gave them as rain hail, Flaming fire in their land,

33 And He smote down their vines and fig-tree^ And brake the trees of their border.

34 He spake, and the locusts came, And the grasshopper without number,