StoneCryAI Bible Dictionary

Genesis 47:23

WEB

📖 Read Genesis 47
◀ Gen 47:22Gen 47:24 ▶

Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

Context

20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt) for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.
21As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.
22Only 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.
23Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
24It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”
25They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”
26Joseph 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.

Read full chapter →

Ask AI about this verse

Answers based solely on Scripture.

Ask directly

📖 Genesis — All Chapters

1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950

Read Genesis 47 →