World English Bible
Genesis 47:25
“They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.”
Verse in context — Genesis 47
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.
It 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.
They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
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.
Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
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