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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’.
OET-LV And_DOM the_people he_brought_in DOM_him/it to_the_cities from_end_of the_territory_of Miʦrayim and_unto other_of_him.
UHB וְאֶ֨ת־הָעָ֔ם הֶעֱבִ֥יר אֹת֖וֹ לֶעָרִ֑ים מִקְצֵ֥ה גְבוּל־מִצְרַ֖יִם וְעַד־קָצֵֽהוּ׃ ‡
(vəʼet-hāˊām heˊₑⱱir ʼotō leˊārim miqəʦēh gəⱱūl-miʦrayim vəˊad-qāʦēhū.)
Key: khaki:verbs.
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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, )
BrTr And he brought the people into bondage to him, for servants, from one extremity of Egypt to the other,
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
MSB (Same as BSB above including footnotes)
OEB As for the people, he reduced them to slavery from one end of Egypt to the other.
WEBBE 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.
WMBB (Same as above)
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 No LEB GEN book available
BBE And as for the people, he made servants of them, town by town, from one end of Egypt to the other.
Moff No Moff 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.
Drby 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.
SLT And the people, he made them pass over to the cities from the extremity of the bounds of Egypt, and even to the extremity.
Wbstr 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-1769 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-1611 And as for the people, he remoued them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt, euen to the other ende thereof.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)
Bshps No Bshps GEN book available
Gnva 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. )
Cvdl No Cvdl GEN book available
Wycl No Wycl GEN book available
Luth No Luth GEN book available
ClVg et cunctos populos ejus a novissimis terminis Ægypti usque ad extremos fines ejus,
(and together to_the_peoples his from the_latest boundaries of_Egypt until to extremos fines his, )
RP-GNT No RP-GNT GEN book available
47:21 he made them all slaves: In Hebrew script, the difference is very slight between slaves (Hebrew ‘abadim) and towns (Hebrew ‘arim). Moving the people into the towns doesn’t fit the context very well, so most translations select slaves as the reading that makes the most sense (cp. 47:20).
Note 1 topic: translate-textvariants
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_of territory_of Miʦrayim/(Egypt) and=unto other_of,him
Alternate translation: [in every part of the country of Egypt]