Genesis Chapter 47 verse 21 Holy Bible

ASV Genesis 47:21

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.
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BBE Genesis 47:21

And as for the people, he made servants of them, town by town, from one end of Egypt to the other.
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DARBY Genesis 47:21

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.
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KJV 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.
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WBT 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.
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WEB Genesis 47:21

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.
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YLT Genesis 47:21

as to the people he hath removed them to cities from the `one' end of the border of Egypt even unto its `other' end.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 21. - And as for the people, he removed them - not enslaved them, converted them into serfs and bondmen to Pharaoh (LXX., Vulgate), but simply transferred them, caused them to pass over - to cities - not from cities to cities, as if changing their populations (Onkelos, Rosenmüller, Kalisch), but either from the country districts to the towns (Targums Jonathan and Jerusalem, Lange, Schumann, Gerlach, Murphy), or according to the cities, i.e. in which the grain had been previously collected (Keil) - from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof. Not that the people were transported from one side of the country to the other as a high stroke of policy to complete their subjugation (Jarchi, Grotius, Rosenmüller, Kalisch, and others), but that throughout the land they were moved into the nearest cities, as a considerate and even merciful arrangement for the more efficiently supplying them with food (Calvin, Keil, Lange, Wordsworth, Speaker's Commentary).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) He removed them to cities.--Joseph's object in this measure was most merciful. As the corn was stored up in the cities, the people would be sure of nourishment only if they were in the immediate neighbourhood of the food. As a consequence, possibly, of Joseph's policy, the number of cities in the Valley of the Nile became so enormous that Herodotus computes them at 20,000. Thus the people would not dwell at any distance from their lands, while it would be impossible for them to reside actually on their plots of ground, as these every year are overflowed by the Nile.