Genesis 47:20

Genesis chapter 47 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with scriptural context

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh’s.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh’s.

Context

v.19wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.

v.20This passage

v.21And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.