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Genesis 47:21

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47:21Joseph35 made all the people slaves36 from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end of it.

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Footnotes

  1. 35 Heb “and he”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  2. 36 The reads “and the people he removed to the cities,” which does not make a lot of sense in this context. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the read “he enslaved them as slaves.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

As for the people, he made servants of them from one end of Egypt to the other.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

and Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

and Joseph made the people servants from one end of Egypt to the other.

NLTNew Living Translation

As for the people, he made them all slaves, from one end of Egypt to the other.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

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

KJV 1900King James Version

And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.