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