Genesis 47:20 meaning and explanation
So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,
Genesis 47:20, Berean Standard Bible
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Joseph, as Egypt's food administrator under Pharaoh, is completing the land transfer he began when the famine exhausted the people's money and livestock. Desperate for seed and food, the Egyptians themselves proposed selling their fields and becoming Pharaoh's servants (verses 18 to 19).
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