Thematic Bible: Exempts the priests from the exactions
Thematic Bible
Joseph » Son of jacob » Exempts the priests from the exactions
Only he did not buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore they did not sell their land.
And Joseph made it a law of the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part, excepting only the land of the priests, which did not become Pharaoh's.