GEN 47:21 Parallel View

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OET (OET-RV) As for the people, he moved them to the cities[fn] from one end of Egypt to the other.

47:21 TC: There’s a variation here in different early copies and translations. Rather than moving the people into the cities (which might have been done to make food distribution more efficient), some translations choose the alternative ‘made the people slaves’.

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ULT And as for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt to its other end.

UST Joseph also relocated the people to the cities throughout the entire country of Egypt.

BSB and Joseph reduced the people to servitude [fn] from one end of Egypt to the other.

47:21 SP, LXX, Vulgate; Hebrew removed the people to the cities

OEB As for the people, he reduced them to slavery from one end of Egypt to the other.

WEB 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.

NET Joseph made all the people slaves from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end of it.

LSV as for the people, he has removed them to cities from the [one] end of the border of Egypt even to its [other] end.

FBV and all the people became his slaves,[fn] from one end of Egypt to the other.

47:21 “The people became his slaves”: Septuagint and other ancient translations. The Hebrew has “he moved them to the cities.”

T4T As a result, Joseph caused all the people from one border of the country to the other to become the king’s slaves.

LEB As for the people, he transferred them to the cities, from one end of the territory 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.

MOF No MOF GEN book available

JPS And as for the people, he removed them city by city, from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

ASV 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.

DRA And all its people from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to the other end thereof,

YLT as to the people he hath removed them to cities from the [one] end of the border of Egypt even unto its [other] end.

DBY 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.

RV 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.

WBS And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

KJB And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
(And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof. )

BB And he caused the people to moue from citie to citie, fro one syde of Egypt into the other.
(And he caused the people to move from city to city, from one side of Egypt into the other.)

GNV And he remoued the people vnto the cities, from one side of Egypt euen to the other.
(And he removed the people unto the cities, from one side of Egypt even to the other. )

CB with the people that wente out and in at his cities, from one syde of Egipte vnto the other,
(with the people that went out and in at his cities, from one side of Egypt unto the other,)

WYC and he made it and alle puplis therof suget to Farao, fro the laste termes of Egipt til to the laste endis therof,
(and he made it and all peoples therof subject to Pharaoh, from the last termes of Egypt til to the last endis therof,)

LUT Und er teilete das Volk aus in die Städte, von einem Ort Ägyptens bis ans andere.
(And he teilete the people out of in the Städte, from one location Egypts until ans andere.)

CLV et cunctos populos ejus a novissimis terminis Ægypti usque ad extremos fines ejus,
(and cunctos populos his a novissimis terminis Ægypti usque to extremos fines his, )

BRN And he brought the people into bondage to him, for servants, from one extremity of Egypt to the other,

BrLXX Καὶ τὸν λαὸν κατεδουλώσατο αὐτῷ εἰς παῖδας, ἀπʼ ἄκρων ὁρίων Αἰγύπτου ἕως τῶν ἄκρων,
(Kai ton laon katedoulōsato autōi eis paidas, apʼ akrōn horiōn Aiguptou heōs tōn akrōn, )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

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וְ⁠אֶ֨ת הָ⁠עָ֔ם הֶעֱבִ֥יר אֹת֖⁠וֹ לֶ⁠עָרִ֑ים

and=DOM the,people moved DOM=him/it to_the,cities

The Masoretic Hebrew text has moved them to the cities here, which Joseph may have done in order to make the grain more readily accessible to them. The Samaritan Pentateuch (a different Hebrew version) and the Septuagint (Greek translation of the Hebrew text) have “made the people slaves” instead, which may refer to the fact that all the people would now be working for Pharaoh, since all the fields belonged to him. The textual variant that is not used in your translation could be put in a footnote. Alternate translation: “Joseph also moved all the people from their farmlands to the nearby cities”

מִ⁠קְצֵ֥ה גְבוּל מִצְרַ֖יִם וְ⁠עַד קָצֵֽ⁠הוּ

from,end territory Miʦrayim/(Egypt) and=unto other,him

Alternate translation: “in every part of the country of Egypt.”

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