Genesis 47:21
ContextNET © | Joseph 1 made all the people slaves 2 from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end of it. |
NIV © | and Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other. |
NASB © | As for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of Egypt’s border to the other. |
NLT © | Thus, all the people of Egypt became servants to Pharaoh. |
MSG © | and the people ended up slaves; Joseph reduced the people to slavery from one end of Egypt to the other. |
BBE © | And as for the people, he made servants of them, town by town, from one end of Egypt to the other. |
NRSV © | As for the people, he made slaves of them 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. |
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NET © | Joseph 1 made all the people slaves 2 from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end of it. |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity. 2 tc The MT reads “and the people he removed to the cities,” which does not make a lot of sense in this context. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the LXX read “he enslaved them as slaves.” |