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Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years.
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Verse 34. Fifth part. This was a tax laid upon all the Egyptians, ( Calmet.) unless Pharao paid for what corn was laid up. Bible.—This quantity would be sufficient, as the people would be content with a smaller allowance during the famine; and the environs of the Nile would produce something, though not worth mentioning. Calmet. 45:6. Menochius.
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