Genesis 47:21

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Genesis 41:48

and 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; for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe upon them. 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 which Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.