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21 He made him lord of his house
and ruler of all his possessions,
22 to obligate[a] his officials as he saw fit[b]
and teach his elders wisdom.
23 Then Israel came to Egypt,
and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Ham.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 105:22 Hebrew “to bind, imprison” The LXX’s “to instruct” presupposes ysr instead of 'sr, and might be correct in light of the parallelism that is fairly tight in this psalm
  2. Psalm 105:22 Literally “in his desire soul