Genesis 47:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. All the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe upon them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.

Cross References

Genesis 47:19

Shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food. We with our land will become slaves to Pharaoh; just give us seed, so that we may live and not die and that the land may not become desolate.”

Genesis 47:21

As for the people, he made slaves of them from one end of Egypt to the other.