The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
GEN 47:19 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.
GEN 47:20 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.
GEN 47:21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end
of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
GEN 47:22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests
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