Genesis 47:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

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.

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.