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Genesis 47:26

Genesis 47:26

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

made it a law: 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 ( and ); a second was the king's (which appears to have been the land of Rameses, or Goshen, ); the remainder was the subjects'. Now Joseph, having purchased the land of the people ( and ), 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.

except: ;

priests: or, princes,

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