Genesis 47:20

New English Translation

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe. So the land became Pharaoh’s.

Cross References

Genesis 47:19

Why should we die before your very eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we, with our land, will become Pharaoh’s slaves. Give us seed that we may live and not die. Then the land will not become desolate.”

Genesis 47:21

Joseph made all the people slaves from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end of it.