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Genesis 47:19-21
1599 Geneva Bible
Genesis 47:19-21
1599 Geneva Bible
19 Why shall we perish in thy sight, both we and our [a]land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bound to Pharaoh: therefore give us seed, that we may live and not die, and that the land go not to waste.
20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh: for the Egyptians sold every man his ground, because the famine was sore upon them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.
21 And he [b]removed the people unto the cities, [c]from one side of Egypt even to the other.
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- Genesis 47:19 For except the ground be tilled and sown, it perisheth, and is as it were dead.
- Genesis 47:21 By this changing they signified that they had nothing of their own, but received all of the king’s liberality.
- Genesis 47:21 Hebrew, end of the border.
Genesis 47:19-21
New International Version
Genesis 47:19-21
New International Version
19 Why should we perish before your eyes(A)—we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food,(B) and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh.(C) Give us seed so that we may live and not die,(D) 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(E) for them. The land became Pharaoh’s, 21 and Joseph reduced the people to servitude,[a](F) from one end of Egypt to the other.
Footnotes
- Genesis 47:21 Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint (see also Vulgate); Masoretic Text and he moved the people into the cities
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