Genesis 47:21
What does Genesis 47:21 mean?
A plain-English look at Genesis 47:21 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
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.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And as for the people, he made servants of them, town by town, from one end of Egypt to the other.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862as to the people he hath removed them to cities from the <FI>one<Fi> end of the border of Egypt even unto its <FI>other<Fi> end.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And all its people from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to the other end thereof,
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And as for the people, he removed them into the cities, from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end of it.
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.
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