Genesis 47:21

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As for the people, he relocated them to the cities, from one end of Egypt's border to the other.

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  • Gen 41:48 : 48 Joseph gathered all the food produced during those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city, he stored the food from the surrounding fields.

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  • Gen 47:19-20
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    78%

    19'Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.'

    20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s.

  • Gen 47:22-23
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    73%

    22Only the land of the priests he did not buy, because they received a fixed provision from Pharaoh and lived on that provision which Pharaoh gave them; therefore, they did not sell their land.

    23Then Joseph said to the people, 'Now that I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh, here is seed for you to sow in the land.'

  • Gen 41:48
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    48Joseph gathered all the food produced during those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city, he stored the food from the surrounding fields.

  • Gen 41:41
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    41Pharaoh also said to Joseph, 'See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.'

  • Gen 47:11-12
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    11So Joseph settled his father and brothers, giving them property in the best part of the land in Egypt, in the region of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

    12Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household according to the number of their children.

  • Gen 45:20-21
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    20Do not worry about your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.

    21The sons of Israel did as they were told. Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had commanded and provisions for their journey.

  • Gen 47:26-27
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    71%

    26So Joseph established it as a law in Egypt to this day: A fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.

    27Now Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They gained property there, were fruitful, and greatly multiplied in number.

  • Jer 25:19
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    19Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officials, his leaders, and all his people.

  • Gen 41:43-44
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    43He had Joseph ride in the chariot of his second-in-command, and they called out before him, 'Bow down!' So he was put in charge of all the land of Egypt.

    44Pharaoh also said to Joseph, 'I am Pharaoh, but without your permission, no one will lift a hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.'

  • Gen 41:55-57
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    55When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, 'Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.'

    56The famine was severe over the entire land. Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine grew more severe throughout Egypt.

    57And people from all the surrounding lands came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the lands.

  • Gen 47:6-7
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    71%

    6'The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and brothers in the best part of the land, in Goshen. And if you know any among them who are capable men, appoint them as overseers of my livestock.'

    7Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

  • Acts 7:10
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    10God rescued him from all his troubles, and He granted him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and all his household.

  • Exod 23:31
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    31I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the inhabitants of the land, and you will drive them out before you.

  • Ezek 29:12-13
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    12I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolate lands, and her cities will be among ruined cities—a desolation for forty years. I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the lands.

    13For this is what the Lord GOD says: At the end of forty years, I will gather Egypt from the peoples where they were scattered.

  • Gen 47:14
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    14Joseph collected all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.

  • Gen 41:34
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    34Let Pharaoh take action to appoint overseers in the land and collect a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

  • 1 Chr 16:20
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    20they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

  • Gen 39:5
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    5From the time he put Joseph in charge of his household and all that he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house on account of Joseph. The LORD's blessing was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field.

  • Ezek 47:21
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    21You are to divide this land among the tribes of Israel.

  • Ezek 30:11
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    11He and his army, the ruthless of the nations, will be brought to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.

  • Gen 45:17-18
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    17Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'Tell your brothers to do this: Load your animals and go back to the land of Canaan.'

    18Then bring your father and your households and come back to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you will eat from the fat of the land.

  • 2 Kgs 24:7
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    7The king of Egypt did not march out of his own land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.

  • Gen 39:1
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    1Joseph was brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.

  • Gen 50:8
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    8Joseph's entire household, his brothers, and his father's household accompanied him. But they left their children, flocks, and cattle in the land of Goshen.

  • Ps 105:38
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    38Egypt was glad when they departed, for dread of them had fallen upon them.

  • Dan 11:42
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    42He will extend his power over many lands, and the land of Egypt will not escape.

  • Gen 41:46
    68%

    46Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. He went out from Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout all the land of Egypt.

  • Ps 105:17
    68%

    17He sent a man ahead of them—Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

  • Ezek 29:20
    68%

    20As payment for the labor he performed, I have given him the land of Egypt, because they worked for me, declares the Lord GOD.