Genesis 47:21 - Forerunner Commentary

Genesis 47:21

19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants of Pharaoh; give us seed, that we may ^alive and not die, that the land may not be desolate.”

20 Then Joseph ^abought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. So the land became Pharaoh’s.

21 And as for the people, he¹ moved them into the cities, from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other end.

22 ^aOnly the land of the ^bpriests he did not buy; for the priests had rations allotted to them by Pharaoh, and they ate their rations which Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their lands.

23 Then Joseph said to the people, “Indeed I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh. Look, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

Verse Comparison: Genesis 47:21

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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.

Amplified® Bible
And as for the people, he removed them to cities {and} practically made slaves of them [at their own request], from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other.

Contemporary English Version
and made everyone the king's slaves,

Darby English Version
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.

Good News Bible
Joseph made slaves of the people from one end of Egypt to the other.

King James Version
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

New American Standard Bible
As for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of Egypt's border to the other.

New International Version
and Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other.

New King James Version
And as for the people, he moved them into the cities, from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other end.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
As for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of Egypt's border to the other.

Revised Standard Version
and as for the people, he made slaves of them from one end of Egypt to the other.

Young's Literal Translation
as to the people he hath removed them to cities from the `one' end of the border of Egypt even unto its `other' end.

New English Translation
Joseph¹ made all the people slaves² from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end of it.

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