17. He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant:
18. His feet they hurt with fetters; he was laid in chains of iron:
19. Until the time that his word came to pass; the word of the Lord tried him.
20. The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
21. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
22. To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his senators wisdom.
23. Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
24. And he increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.
25. He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
26. He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.
27. They set among them his signs, and wonders 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 slew their fish.
30. Their land swarmed with frogs, in the chambers of their kings.
31. He spake, and there came swarms of flies, and lice in all their borders.
32. He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
33. He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their borders.
34. He spake, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, and that without number,
35. And did eat up every herb in their land, and did eat up the fruit of their ground.
36. He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.