Genesis 47:21
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
Genesis 47:21 in other translations
| BSB | and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other. |
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| DARBY | 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. |
| BBE | And as for the people, he made servants of them, town by town, from one end of Egypt to the other. |
| Webster | And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof. |
What does Genesis 47:21 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 47:13-26
Care being taken of Jacob and his family, which mercy was especially designed by Providence in Joseph's advancement, an account is given of the saving the kingdom of Egypt from ruin. There was no bread, and the people were ready to die. See how we depend upon God's providence. All our wealth would not keep us from starving, if rain were withheld for two or three years. See how much we are at God's mercy, and let us…
Genesis 47:21 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 47:21
- Genesis 41:48
And 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 round about every city, laid he up in the same.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And as.It is highly probable, that Joseph was influenced by no political motive in removing the people to the cities, but merely by motives of prudence and humanity; for, as the corn was laid up in the cities, it would be more eligible to bring then from distant towns and villages to places where they might be more conveniently supplied with food.
to cities.
41:48
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Context
- Genesis 47:20
And 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.
- Genesis 47:21
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
- Genesis 47:22
Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
Genesis 47:21 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y al pueblo hízolo pasar á las ciudades desde el un cabo del término de Egipto hasta el otro cabo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et quant au peuple, il le fit passer dans les villes, d’un bout des limites de l’Égypte jusqu’à l’autre bout. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und das Volk, das versetzte er in die verschiedenen Städte, von einem Ende der Grenze Ägyptens bis zu ihrem anderen Ende. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et cunctos populos ejus a novissimis terminis Ægypti usque ad extremos fines ejus, |