Genesis 47:18-20

Expanded Bible

¹⁸ ·The next year [^LWhen that year ended] the people came to Joseph [^Lin the second year] and said, “·You know [^LWe cannot hide from my master/lord that] we have no money left, and all our ·animals [^Lherds of cattle] belong to you. ·We have [^LBefore our master/lord there is] nothing left except our bodies and our land. 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],