Genesis 47:20
Jacob's Blessing to Pharaoh
Genesis 47:20
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.
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Genesis 47:19
Wherefore shall 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, that the land be not desolate.
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Genesis 47:21
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.