Genesis 47:18-20

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹⁸ When that year was ended, they came to him the ^[a]next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent, and the ^[b]cattle are my lord’s. There is nothing left ^[c]for my lord except our bodies and our lands. ¹⁹ Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for ^[d]food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. So give us seed, that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”

Result of the Famine

²⁰ So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for ^[e]every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. Thus the land became Pharaoh’s.