And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, because each man in Egypt sold his field, because this famine was severe on them; and the land became Pharaoh’s.
Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread; and let us, we and our land, become slaves to Pharaoh. And give seed so that we may live and not die, and the land not be desolate.