and Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other.
In context
19Why should we perish before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we, with our land, will become slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and so that the land will not become desolate.” 20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, since the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields, because the famine was too severe for them. So the land became Pharaoh’s, 21and Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other. 22The only land he did not buy was that belonging to the priests, because they received a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance he gave them. That is why they did not sell their land. 23“Now that I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh today,” Joseph said to the people, “here is seed for you to sow the land.
