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Genesis 47:24-26
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Genesis 47:24-26
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
24 And at the harvests you shall give one-fifth to Pharaoh, and four-fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households and as food for your little ones.”(A) 25 They said, “You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be slaves to Pharaoh.”(B) 26 So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. The land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh’s.(C)
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