Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
and let him appoint officers over the land—overseers, equivalent to the beys of modern Egypt.
take up the fifth part of the land—that is, of the land's produce, to be purchased and stored by the government, instead of being sold to foreign corn merchants.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Genesis 41:34:
Genesis 41:25
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