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15 He said, ‘Do not even touch the people that I have chosen to be mine.
    Do not hurt my prophets.’
16 The Lord sent a famine to the land of Canaan,
    so that his people had no food left to eat.
17 But he sent Joseph to Egypt
    before they went there to get food.[a]
Joseph's brothers sold him as a slave.

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Footnotes

  1. 105:17 See Genesis 42:1-5.

15 “Do not touch(A) my anointed ones;
    do my prophets(B) no harm.”

16 He called down famine(C) on the land
    and destroyed all their supplies of food;
17 and he sent a man before them—
    Joseph, sold as a slave.(D)

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