Genesis 47:19-21

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁹ Why therefore shall we die before thy eyes? we will be thine, both we and our lands: buy us to be the king's servants, and give us seed, lest for want of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness.

²⁰ So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt, every man selling his possessions, because of the greatness of the famine. And he brought it into Pharao's hands:

²¹ And all its people from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to the other end thereof,