Genesis 47:21
And all its people from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to the other end thereof,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et cunctos populos ejus a novissimis terminis Ægypti usque ad extremos fines ejus,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ τὸν λαὸν κατεδουλώσατο αὐτῷ εἰς παῖδας, ἀπ᾽ ἄκρων ὁρίων Αἰγύπτου ἕως τῶν ἄκρων,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאֶ֨ת הָעָ֔ם הֶעֱבִ֥יר אֹת֖וֹ לֶעָרִ֑ים מִקְצֵ֥ה גְבוּל מִצְרַ֖יִם וְעַד קָצֵֽהוּ
Haydock's commentary
People, "he transplanted" from, &c., as the Hebrew, Arabic, &c., now read, by the change of one letter. Herodotus, ii. 108, says, the same person has never a field there two years together. Diodorus 1, also attests, that individuals have no property in Egypt, the land being divided among the priests, the king, and the military. Tradesmen always follow their father's profession, which makes them very skilful.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.