Genesis 47:19-21

Expanded Bible

¹⁹ ·Surely both we and our land will [^LWhy should we and our land…?] die here in front of you. Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we will be ·slaves [servants] to ·the king [^LPharaoh], together with our land. Give us seed to plant so that we will live and not die, and the land will not become ·a desert [desolate].”

²⁰ So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for ·the king [^LPharaoh; ^CJoseph’s plan led to the tremendous power of the Pharaoh in Egypt and the world]. Every Egyptian sold Joseph his field, because the ·hunger [famine] was very ·great [strong; intense]. So the land ·became the king’s [belonged to the Pharaoh], ²¹ and Joseph made the people ·slaves^[a] from one end of Egypt to the other.