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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Gen 47:26 — And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh's.
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made it a law
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From this history, and from Diodorus Siculus (lib. i.), we learn that the land of Egypt was divided into three parts: one belonged to the Priests, (Gen 47:22, 26;) a second was the king's, (which appears to have been the land of Rameses, or Goshen, Gen 47:11;) the remainder was the subjects'. Now Joseph, having purchased the land of the people (Gen 47:19, 20), restored it, on the condition of their paying a fifth part of the produce to the king, beyond which he appears to have made no demand. |
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Gen 47:22; Eze 7:24 |
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priests
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or, princes. See Gen 47:22 |
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Gen 47:22 |
Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion [assigned them] of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands. |
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Gen 47:26 |
And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh's. |
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Gen 47:11 |
And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Gen 47:22 |
Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion [assigned them] of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands. |
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Eze 7:24 |
Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled. |
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Gen 47:22 |
Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion [assigned them] of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Genesis 47:26," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Gen/47/26.html>.
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