Genesis 47:26
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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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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageCanaan was Jacob’s ancestral homeland, while Egypt was the land where Joseph’s administration supplied food during famine; Goshen, in Egypt’s eastern Nile delta, including the district called Rameses, was allotted to Jacob’s family. Genesis 47:26 concerns Joseph’s enduring land policy in Egypt, distinct from the land granted to Israel in Goshen.
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Genesis 47:26 mentions Canaan, Egypt, Goshen and Rameses.
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