Genesis 47:18-20

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁸ But when the year had ended, they came to him the second year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that since our money is spent, and my lord has the herds of the cattle, there is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our ground.

¹⁹ “Why shall we perish in your sight, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bound to Pharaoh. Therefore, give us seed, so that we may live and not die, and that the land does not go to waste.”

²⁰ So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. For every man sold his ground to the Egyptians because the famine was severe upon them. So, the land became Pharaoh’s.