Genesis 47:19-21

Living Bible

¹⁹ Why should we die? Buy us and our land and we will be serfs to Pharaoh. We will trade ourselves for food, then we will live, and the land won’t be abandoned.”

²⁰ So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; all the Egyptians sold him their fields because the famine was so severe. And the land became Pharaoh’s. ²¹ Thus all the people of Egypt became Pharaoh’s serfs.