Genesis 47:20

Bible in Basic English 1965

So Joseph got all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh; for every Egyptian gave up his land in exchange for food, because of their great need; so all the land became Pharaoh's.

Cross References

Genesis 47:19

Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste.

Genesis 47:21

And as for the people, he made servants of them, town by town, from one end of Egypt to the other.