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


In Context

18 And that year ended; and they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide it from my lord that since our money is come to an end, and the herds of cattle are in the possession of my lord, nothing is left before my lord but our bodies and our land.

19 Why should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bondmen to Pharaoh; and give seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.

20 And Joseph bought all the soil of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them; and the land became Pharaoh's.

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

22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had an assigned portion from Pharaoh, and ate their assigned portion which Pharaoh had given them; so they did not sell their land.

23 And Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and sow the land.

Genesis 47:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

47:21And as for the people, he removed them to cities from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end thereof.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

47:21and Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

47:21And all its people from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to the other end thereof,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

47:21And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

47:21And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

47:21And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

47:21As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

47:21as to the people he hath removed them to cities from the one end of the border of Egypt even unto its other end.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

47:21And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.