Psalms 105:10-23

10and confirmed to Jacob as a decree and to Israel as a permanent covenant:

11“I will give the land of Canaan to you as your inherited portion.”

12When they were few in number, very few indeed, and resident aliens in Canaan,

13wandering from nation to nation and from one kingdom to another,

14he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their behalf:

15“Do not touch my anointed ones, or harm my prophets.”

16He called down famine against the land and destroyed the entire food supply.

17He had sent a man ahead of them — Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

18They hurt his feet with shackles; his neck was put in an iron collar.

19Until the time his prediction came true, the word of the Lord tested him.

20The king sent for him and released him; the ruler of peoples set him free.

21He made him master of his household, ruler over all his possessions  —

22binding his officials at will and instructing his elders.

23Then Israel went to Egypt; Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.