Genesis 47:20

Legacy Standard Bible

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every Egyptian sold his field because the famine was severe upon them. Thus the land became Pharaoh’s.

Cross References

Genesis 47:19

Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. So give us seed, that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”

Genesis 47:21

As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end.