Genesis 47:21
Modern Translations
New International Version
and Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other.

New Living Translation
As for the people, he made them all slaves, from one end of Egypt to the other.

English Standard Version
As for the people, he made servants of them from one end of Egypt to the other.

Berean Study Bible
and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.

New American Standard Bible
As for the people, he relocated them to the cities from one end of Egypt’s border to the other.

NASB 1995
As for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of Egypt's border to the other.

NASB 1977
And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of Egypt’s border to the other.

Amplified Bible
And as for the people, he relocated them [temporarily] to cities from one end of Egypt’s border to the other.

Christian Standard Bible
and Joseph made the people servants from one end of Egypt to the other.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and Joseph moved the people to the cities from one end of Egypt to the other.

Contemporary English Version
and made everyone the king's slaves,

Good News Translation
Joseph made slaves of the people from one end of Egypt to the other.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
All over Egypt Joseph moved the people to the cities.

International Standard Version
Then Joseph transported the people to cities from one end of Egypt to the other.

NET Bible
Joseph made all the people slaves from one end of Egypt's border to the other end of it.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

New King James Version
And as for the people, he moved them into the cities, from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other end.

King James 2000 Bible
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

New Heart English Bible
And as for the people, he subjugated them as slaves from one end of the border of Egypt to the other end of it.

World English Bible
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.

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

American Standard Version
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.

A Faithful Version
And as for the people, he caused them to go into the cities, from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end of it.

Darby Bible Translation
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.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And he remoued the people vnto the cities, from one side of Egypt euen to the other.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And he caused the people to moue from citie to citie, fro one syde of Egypt into the other.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
with the people that wente out and in at his cities, from one syde of Egipte vnto the other,

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And he appoynted the people vnto the cities from one syde of Egipte vnto the other:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
as for the people, he has removed them to cities from the [one] end of the border of Egypt even to its [other] end.

Young's Literal Translation
as to the people he hath removed them to cities from the one end of the border of Egypt even unto its other end.

Smith's Literal Translation
And the people, he made them pass over to the cities from the extremity of the bounds of Egypt, and even to the extremity.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And all its people from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to the other end thereof,

Catholic Public Domain Version
along with all of its people, from the newest borders of Egypt, even to its furthest limits,

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And he moved the people from town to town from one end of the border of Egypt and unto the other.

Lamsa Bible
And as for the people, he removed them from town to town from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other end thereof.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
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.

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
















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