Genesis 47:21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 41:48

He gathered up all the food of the seven years when there was plenty in the land of Egypt and stored up food in the cities; he stored up in every city the food from the fields around it.

Genesis 47:20

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.

Genesis 47:22

Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.