Genesis 47:26 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Genesis 47:26

24 And it shall come to pass in the harvest that you shall give one-fifth to Pharaoh. Four-fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and for your food, for those of your households and as food for your little ones.”

25 So they said, “You have saved ^aour lives; let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have one-fifth, ^aexcept for the land of the priests only, which did not become Pharaoh’s.

Joseph’s Vow to Jacob

27 So Israel ^adwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions there and ^bgrew and multiplied exceedingly.

28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the length of Jacob’s life was one hundred and forty-seven years.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Genesis 47:23-28

Joseph said, Behold, etc.—The lands being sold to the government (Genesis 47:19-20), seed would be distributed for the first crop after the famine; and the people would occupy them as tenants-at-will on the payment of a produce rent, almost the same rule as obtains in Egypt in the present day.

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