That Pharaoh should have the fifth part; that the propriety of the land should be Pharaoh s; and that in token thereof the people should pay the fifth part of the products of it to Pharaoh.
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Genesis 47:26
26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priestse only, which became not Pharaoh's.