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Genesis 47:19-21
New Century Version
Genesis 47:19-21
New Century Version
19 Surely both we and our land will die here in front of you. Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we will be slaves to the king, 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.”
20 So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for the king. Every Egyptian sold Joseph his field, because the hunger was very great. So the land became the king’s, 21 and Joseph made the people slaves from one end of Egypt to the other.
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