Genesis 47:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

As for the people, he moved them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other end.

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  • Gen 41:48 : 48 So he gathered up all the food of the seven years that were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities; he laid up in every city the food of the fields which surrounded them.

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  • Gen 47:19-20
    2 verses
    78%

    19Why shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

    20And 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.

  • Gen 47:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had a portion assigned them by Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them: therefore they did not sell their lands.

    23Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

  • Gen 41:48
    72%

    48So he gathered up all the food of the seven years that were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities; he laid up in every city the food of the fields which surrounded them.

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

  • Gen 47:11-12
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    72%

    11And Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

    12And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

  • Gen 45:20-21
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    72%

    20Also do not concern yourselves with your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.

    21And the children of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them carts according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.

  • Gen 47:26-27
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    71%

    26And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have a fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which did not become Pharaoh's.

    27And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions there, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

  • Jer 25:19
    71%

    19Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

  • Gen 41:43-44
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    71%

    43And he had him ride in the second chariot which he had, and they cried out before him, Bow the knee; thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.

    44Pharaoh also said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no man may lift his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 41:55-57
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    71%

    55When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Then Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph; whatever he says to you, do.

    56The famine was over all the face of the earth; and Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. The famine became severe in the land of Egypt.

    57All countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was so severe in all the lands.

  • Gen 47:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6The land of Egypt is before you; in the best of the land make your father and brothers to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if you know any capable men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

    7And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

  • Acts 7:10
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    10And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

  • Exod 23:31
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    31And I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

  • Ezek 29:12-13
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    69%

    12And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

    13Yet thus says the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the people where they were scattered:

  • Gen 47:14
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    14And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

  • Gen 41:34
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    34Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land to collect one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven plentiful years.

  • 1 Chr 16:20
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    20And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;

  • Gen 39:5
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    5And from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house and in the field.

  • Ezek 47:21
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    21So shall you divide this land among you according to the tribes of Israel.

  • Ezek 30:11
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    11He and his people with him, the terrible 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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    17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Do this: load your animals and go, get to the land of Canaan.

    18And take your father and your households and come to me; and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.

  • 2 Kgs 24:7
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    7And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land anymore, for the king of Babylon had taken from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates all that belonged to the king of Egypt.

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

  • Gen 50:8
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    8And all the house of Joseph, and his brothers, and his father's house, only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

  • Ps 105:38
    68%

    38Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.

  • Dan 11:42
    68%

    42He shall stretch forth his hand upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

  • Gen 41:46
    68%

    46Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and traveled throughout all the land of Egypt.

  • Ps 105:17
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    17He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold for a servant:

  • Ezek 29:20
    68%

    20I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor with which he served against it, because they worked for me, says the Lord GOD.