Genesis 47:21
Genesis chapter 47 · verse 21 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
Context
v.20So 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.
v.21This passage
v.22Only the land of the priests bought he not: for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their land.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 41:48
And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.