Genesis 47:21

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 41:48 : 48 He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.

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  • Gen 47:19-20
    2 verses
    78%

    19 Why should 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. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."

    20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's.

  • Gen 47:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22 Only he didn't buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn't sell their land.

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

  • Gen 41:48
    72%

    48 He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.

  • Gen 41:41
    72%

    41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."

  • Gen 47:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 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.

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

  • Gen 45:20-21
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    72%

    20 Also, don't concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all of the land of Egypt is yours."

    21 The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.

  • Gen 47:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26 Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn't become Pharaoh's.

    27 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

  • Jer 25:19
    71%

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

  • Gen 41:43-44
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    71%

    43 and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all the land of Egypt.

    44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."

  • Gen 41:55-57
    3 verses
    71%

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

    56 The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

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

  • Gen 47:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6 The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock."

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

  • Acts 7:10
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    10 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

  • Exod 23:31
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    31 I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness 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%

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

    13 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered;

  • Gen 47:14
    69%

    14 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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    34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce in the seven plenteous years.

  • 1 Chr 16:20
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    20 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

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

  • Ezek 47:21
    69%

    21 So you shall divide this land to you according to the tribes of Israel.

  • Ezek 30:11
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    11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

  • Gen 45:17-18
    2 verses
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    17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

    18 Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'

  • 2 Kgs 24:7
    69%

    7 The king of Egypt didn't come again out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

  • Gen 39:1
    68%

    1 Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.

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

  • Ps 105:38
    68%

    38 Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.

  • Dan 11:42
    68%

    42 He shall stretch forth his hand also on the countries; and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

  • Gen 41:46
    68%

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

  • Ps 105:17
    68%

    17 He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

  • Ezek 29:20
    68%

    20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because they worked for me, says the Lord Yahweh.