Thematic Bible: Exempts the priests from the exactions


Thematic Bible



Only he didn't buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn't sell their land. Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersDividing Food

Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn't become Pharaoh's. Verse ConceptsHuman LawStatutes To This Day