Thematic Bible: Exempts the priests from the exactions
Thematic Bible
Joseph » Son of jacob » Exempts the priests from the exactions
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.
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.