Genesis 47:24

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When the crop comes in, give one-fifth of it to Pharaoh. The remaining four-fifths will be yours for seed for the fields and for you to eat, including those in your households and your little children.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 41:34 : 34 Pharaoh should do this– he should appoint officials throughout the land to collect one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.
  • Gen 47:25 : 25 They replied,“You have saved our lives! You are showing us favor, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”
  • Lev 27:32 : 32 All the tithe of herd or flock, everything which passes under the rod, the tenth one will be holy to the LORD.
  • 1 Sam 8:15-17 : 15 He will demand a tenth of your seed and of the produce of your vineyards and give it to his administrators and his servants. 16 He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use. 17 He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will be his servants.
  • Ps 41:1 : 1 For the music director; a psalm of David. How blessed is the one who treats the poor properly! When trouble comes, may the LORD deliver him.
  • Ps 112:5 : 5 It goes well for the one who generously lends money, and conducts his business honestly.

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  • Gen 41:34-36
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    34Pharaoh should do this– he should appoint officials throughout the land to collect one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

    35They should gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. By Pharaoh’s authority they should store up grain so the cities will have food, and they should preserve it.

    36This food should be held in storage for the land in preparation for the seven years of famine that will occur throughout the land of Egypt. In this way the land will survive the famine.”

  • Gen 47:25-26
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    25They replied,“You have saved our lives! You are showing us favor, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”

    26So Joseph made it a statute, which is in effect to this day throughout the land of Egypt: One-fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.

  • Gen 47:22-23
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    22But he did not purchase the land of the priests because the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh and they ate from their allotment that Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.

    23Joseph said to the people,“Since I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you. Cultivate the land.

  • Gen 47:16-20
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    16Then Joseph said,“If your money is gone, bring your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock.”

    17So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for their horses, the livestock of their flocks and herds, and their donkeys. He got them through that year by giving them food in exchange for all their livestock.

    18When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him,“We cannot hide from our lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land.

    19Why should we die before your very eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we, with our land, will become Pharaoh’s slaves. Give us seed that we may live and not die. Then the land will not become desolate.”

    20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe. So the land became Pharaoh’s.

  • Gen 41:47-48
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    47During the seven years of abundance the land produced large, bountiful harvests.

    48Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt during the seven years and stored it in the cities. In every city he put the food gathered from the fields around it.

  • Gen 45:20
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    20Don’t worry about your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt will be yours.’”

  • Gen 45:10-11
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    10You will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me– you, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and everything you have.

    11I will provide you with food there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor– you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you.”’

  • 1 Sam 8:14-15
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    14He will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his own servants.

    15He will demand a tenth of your seed and of the produce of your vineyards and give it to his administrators and his servants.

  • Gen 45:17-18
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    17Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Say to your brothers,‘Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!

    18Get your father and your households and come to me! Then I will give you the best land in Egypt and you will eat the best of the land.’

  • Gen 47:4
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    4Then they said to Pharaoh,“We have come to live as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”

  • Gen 47:14
    71%

    14Joseph collected all the money that could be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan as payment for the grain they were buying. Then Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s palace.

  • Lev 25:7
    70%

    7your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land– all its produce will be for you to eat.

  • Lev 19:25
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    25Then in the fifth year you may eat its fruit to add its produce to your harvest. I am the LORD your God.

  • Gen 47:12
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    12Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.

  • Gen 41:55
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    55When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the people of Egypt,“Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”

  • Gen 47:6
    70%

    6The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best region of the land. They may live in the land of Goshen. If you know of any highly capable men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”

  • Deut 15:14
    69%

    14You must supply them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress– as the LORD your God has blessed you, you must give to them.

  • Deut 14:22
    69%

    22The Offering of Tribute You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.

  • Lev 25:20
    69%

    20If you say,‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?’

  • Deut 24:19
    68%

    19Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the LORD your God may bless all the work you do.

  • Gen 41:29-30
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    68%

    29Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the whole land of Egypt.

    30But seven years of famine will occur after them, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will devastate the land.

  • Gen 42:25
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    25Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to return each man’s money to his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. His orders were carried out.

  • Gen 39:5
    68%

    5From the time Potiphar appointed him over his household and over all that he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s household for Joseph’s sake. The blessing of the LORD was on everything that he had, both in his house and in his fields.