Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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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