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


In Context

18 When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, "We cannot hide from our lord the fact that since our money is gone and our livestock belongs to you, there is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

19 Why should we perish before your eyes-we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate."

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,

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

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

23 Joseph said to the people, "Now that I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you so you can plant the ground.

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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

47:21And 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.

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.