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.
Parallel translations
- 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.
- BSB and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.
- NKJV And as for the people, he moved them into the cities, from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other end.
- NASB As for the people, he relocated them to the cities from one end of Egypt’s border to the other.
- NLT As for the people, he made them all slaves, from one end of Egypt to the other.
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- Gen 41:48He 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 around every city, he laid up in the same.
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