Genesis 47:21 meaning and explanation

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

Genesis 47:21, Berean Standard Bible

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Joseph, now Egypt's food administrator, is completing the famine policy begun in verses 13 to 20. The Egyptians themselves proposed the arrangement, offering their land and bodies in exchange for food and seed so they would not die.

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