OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 47:26

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26

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.

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Verse 26. This day. When Moses wrote, and long after, as we learn from Josephus. Saint Clement Alex. Diod. and so forth Calmet.

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