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Genesis 47:21

American Standard Version

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 47:21 in other translations

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.

Genesis 47:21 · World English Bible

Genesis 47:21 in context

  1. 19wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.
  2. 20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh’s.
  3. 21And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
  4. 22Only the land of the priests bought he not: for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their land.
  5. 23Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.