Genesis 47:21

New Century Version

and Joseph made the people slaves from one end of Egypt to the other.

Cross References

Genesis 41:48

And Joseph gathered all the food produced in Egypt during those seven years of good crops and stored the food in the cities. In every city he stored grain that had been grown in the fields around that city.

Genesis 47:20

So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for the king. Every Egyptian sold Joseph his field, because the hunger was very great. So the land became the king’s,

Genesis 47:22

The only land he did not buy was the land the priests owned. They did not need to sell their land because the king paid them for their work. So they had money to buy food.