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.


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 our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate.|

20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's.

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

22 Only he didn't buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn't sell their land.

23 Then Joseph said to the people, |Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you 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 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 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.