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• Thus Joseph acquired all the farm land of Egypt for Pharaoh, since with the famine too much for them to bear, every Egyptian sold his field; so the land passed over to Pharaoh, (Genesis 47, 20)

• and the people were reduced to slavery, from one end of Egypt's territory to the other. (Genesis 47, 21)

• Only the priests' lands Joseph did not take over. Since the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived off the allowance Pharaoh had granted them, they did not have to sell their land. (Genesis 47, 22)

• Joseph told the people: "Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh, here is your seed for sowing the land. (Genesis 47, 23)

• But when the harvest is in, you must give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, while you keep four-fifths as seed for your fields and as food for yourselves and your families (and as food for your children)." (Genesis 47, 24)

• "You have saved our lives!" they answered. "We are grateful to my lord that we can be Pharaoh's slaves." (Genesis 47, 25)

• Thus Joseph made it a law for the land in Egypt, which is still in force, that a fifth of its produce should go to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not pass over to Pharaoh. (Genesis 47, 26)

• Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. There they acquired property, were fertile, and increased greatly. (Genesis 47, 27)

• Jacob lived in the land of Egypt for seventeen years; the span of his life came to a hundred and forty-seven years. (Genesis 47, 28)

• When the time approached for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him: "If you really wish to please me, put your hand under my thigh as a sign of your constant loyalty to me; do not let me be buried in Egypt. (Genesis 47, 29)

• When I lie down with my ancestors, have me taken out of Egypt and buried in their burial place." (Genesis 47, 30)

• Your two sons, therefore, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I joined you here, shall be mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine as much as Reuben and Simeon are mine. (Genesis 48, 5)