Genesis 47:19-21

New Catholic Bible

¹⁹ Why should we die with you looking on, we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for bread, and we will become servants to Pharaoh, we and our land. But give us something to plant so that we live and not die and the land not become a desert.”

²⁰ Joseph acquired all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, because the Egyptians sold their fields on account of the famine that weighed upon them. Thus the land became Pharaoh’s property. ²¹ As to the people, he moved them into the cities from one end to the other of the borders of Egypt.