Genesis 47:20-22

New Catholic Bible

²⁰ Joseph acquired all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, because the Egyptians sold their fields on account of the famine that weighed upon them. Thus the land became Pharaoh’s property. ²¹ As to the people, he moved them into the cities from one end to the other of the borders of Egypt. ²² Only the property which belonged to the priests was not bought, for the priests had a fixed allotment given to them by Pharaoh, and they ate the allotment that Pharaoh had given them. This is why they did not sell their land.