Genesis 47:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ As for the people, he made slaves of them from one end of Egypt to the other.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ 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.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ 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.

Common English Bible

²¹ He moved the people to the cities from one end of Egypt to the other.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ along with all of its people, from the newest borders of Egypt, even to its furthest limits,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And all its people from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to the other end thereof,

Genesis 47:21 Cross References

Genesis 41:48

He gathered up all the food of the seven years when there was plenty in the land of Egypt and stored up food in the cities; he stored up in every city the food from the fields around it.

Genesis 47:20

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. All the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe upon them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.

Genesis 47:22

Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.