Genesis 47:21

New American Bible - revised edition

and the people were reduced to slavery, from one end of Egypt’s territory to the other.

Cross References

Genesis 41:48

he collected all the food of these years of plenty that the land of Egypt was enjoying and stored it in the cities, placing in each city the crops of the fields around it.

Genesis 47:20

So Joseph acquired all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each of the Egyptians sold his field, since the famine weighed heavily upon them. Thus the land passed over to Pharaoh,

Genesis 47:22

Only the priests’ lands Joseph did not acquire. Since the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived off the allowance Pharaoh had granted them, they did not have to sell their land.