Result of the Famine

20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for [a]every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. So the land became Pharaoh’s. 21 As for the people, he relocated them to the cities from one end of Egypt’s border to the other. 22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy, because the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh, and they [b]lived off the allotment which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore, they did not sell their land.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 47:20 Lit Egypt, every man
  2. Genesis 47:22 Lit ate their allotment

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