Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land?
Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh.
Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”
So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.
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.