Genesis 47:21 - New International Version (Anglicised)

²¹ and Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And as for the people, he removed them to cities and practically made slaves of them [at their own request], from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

Common English Bible

²¹ He moved the people to the cities from one end of Egypt to the other.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ along with all of its people, from the newest borders of Egypt, even to its furthest limits,

Genesis 47:21 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 41:48

Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it.

Genesis 47:20

So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields, because the famine was too severe for them. The land became Pharaoh’s,

Genesis 47:22

However, he did not buy the land of the priests, because they received a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and had food enough from the allowance Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.