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.
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