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Note, Skin for skin, and all that a man hath,
even liberty and property (those darling
twins), will he give for his life; for life is
sweet. There are few (though perhaps there are
some) who would even dare to die rather than
live in slavery, and dependence on an arbitrary
power. And perhaps there are those who, in
that case, could die by the sword, in a heat,
who yet could not deliberately die by famine,
which is much worse, La 4:9. Now it was a
great mercy to the Egyptians that, in this
distress, they could have corn at any rate; if
they had all died for hunger, their lands
perhaps would have escheated to the crown of
course, for want of heirs; they therefore
resolved to make the best of bad.
18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year,
and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not aught left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
19 wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land?
buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the
Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.
21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of
the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.