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


In Context

18 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not aught left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands:

19 Why shall we die before thy eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

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

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.

22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them by Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.

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