Bereshis 47:19-21

Orthodox Jewish Bible

¹⁹ Why shall we die before thine eyes, both we and adematenu? Buy us and adematenu for lechem, and we and adematenu will be avadim unto Pharaoh; and give us zera, that we may live, and not die, that the adamah be not desolate.

²⁰ And Yosef bought kol Admat Mitzrayim for Pharaoh; for the Mitzrayim sold every ish his sadeh, because the ra’av (famine) was chazak 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 Mitzrayim even to the other end thereof.