Genesis 47:21

Modern English Version

As for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other end.

Cross References

Genesis 41:48

So he gathered up all the food of the seven years which was in the land of Egypt and laid up the food in the cities. He put in every city the food of the fields which surrounded the city.

Genesis 47:20

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

Genesis 47:22

Only the land of the priests did he not buy, for the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh, and they lived off their allotment that Pharaoh gave them. Therefore they did not sell their lands.