Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Genesis 47:21
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and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.
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And as for the people, he removed them to cities from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end thereof.
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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.
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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.
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Genesis 47
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,
21 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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