Genesis 47:20-22

Expanded Bible

²⁰ So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for ·the king [^LPharaoh; ^CJoseph’s plan led to the tremendous power of the Pharaoh in Egypt and the world]. Every Egyptian sold Joseph his field, because the ·hunger [famine] was very ·great [strong; intense]. So the land ·became the king’s [belonged to the Pharaoh], ²¹ and Joseph made the people ·slaves^[a] from one end of Egypt to the other. ²² The only land he did not buy was the land the priests owned. They did not need to sell their land because ·the king [^LPharaoh] ·paid them [gave them an allowance] for their work. So they had money to buy food.