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The Famine Continues

Genesis 47:21

In 11 translations

BSB
and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.SP, LXX, Vulgate; Hebrew removed the people to the cities
KJV
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
WEB
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.
ASV
And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
LSV
as for the people, he has removed them to cities from the [one] end of the border of Egypt even to its [other] end.
YLT
as to the people he hath removed them to cities from the [one] end of the border of Egypt even unto its [other] end.
DBY
And as for the people, he removed them into the cities, from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end of it.
DRC
And all its people from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to the other end thereof,
GNV
And he remoued the people vnto the cities, from one side of Egypt euen to the other.
JPS
And as for the people, he removed them city by city, from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
LXXE
And he brought the people into bondage to him, for servants, from one extremity of Egypt to the other,

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְאֶ֨ת־הָעָ֔ם הֶעֱבִ֥יר אֹת֖וֹ לֶעָרִ֑ים מִקְצֵ֥ה גְבוּל־מִצְרַ֖יִם וְעַד־קָצֵֽהוּ׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ τὸν λαὸν κατεδουλώσατο αὐτῷ εἰς παῖδας, ἀπʼ ἄκρων ὁρίων Αἰγύπτου ἕως τῶν ἄκρων,

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  • Genesis 41:48During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.

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