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Genesis 47:21

Egypt

19 Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”

20 So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,

and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.

22 However, he did not acquire the priests’ portion of the land, for it had been given to them by Pharaoh. They ate the rations that Pharaoh supplied; so they did not sell their land.

23 Then Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh this day, here is seed for you to sow in the land.

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BSB
and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.
KJV
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
WEB
As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.
ASV
And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
DARBY
And as for the people, he removed them into the cities, from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end of it.
BLB
And the people—he reduced them to servitude, from one end of the border of Egypt and to its [other] end.
ÅB
Men folket flyttet han om i byene, fra den ene ende av Egypt til den andre.
OTB
Josef flyttet folket til byene fra den ene enden av Egypt til den andre.
B1930
Men folket flyttet han om i byene, fra den ene ende av Egyptens land til den andre.

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Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Genesis 41:48

    During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.

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