Chuàngshìjì 47:26

26 Yúshì Yūesè wèi Āijí dì déng xià chánglì , zhídào jīnrì , fǎlǎo bì de wǔ fèn ...zhīyī , wéidú jìsī de dì bú guī fǎlǎo .

Chuàngshìjì 47:26 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 47:26

And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this
day
With the consent of Pharaoh, his nobles, and all the people of the land, who readily came into it; and so it became, a fundamental law of their constitution, and which continued to the times of Moses, the writer of this history:

[that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part];
that is, of the increase the whole land of Egypt produced:

except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh's;
it not being bought by him; so Diodorus Siculus ^F13, as he assigns the first part of the land to the priests, so he says they were free from all taxes and tribute, and next to the king were possessed of honour and authority.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Ut supra. (Bibliothec. l. 1. p. 47.)

Chuàngshìjì 47:26 In-Context

24 Hòulái dǎ liángshi de shíhou , nǐmen yào bǎ wǔ fèn ...zhīyī nà gĕi fǎlǎo , sì fèn kĕyǐ guī nǐmen zuò dì lǐ de zhǒngzǐ , yĕ zuò nǐmen hé nǐmen jiā kǒu háitóng de shíwù .

25 Tāmen shuō , nǐ jiù le wǒmen de xìngméng . dàn yuàn wǒmen zaì wǒ zhǔ yǎnqián mĕng ēn , wǒmen jiù zuòfǎ lǎo de púrén .

26 Yúshì Yūesè wèi Āijí dì déng xià chánglì , zhídào jīnrì , fǎlǎo bì de wǔ fèn ...zhīyī , wéidú jìsī de dì bú guī fǎlǎo .

27 Yǐsèliè rén zhù zaì Āijí de Gēshān dì . tāmen zaì nàli zhì le chǎnyè , bìngqiĕ shēngyù shèn duō .

28 Yǎgè zhù zaì Āijí dì shí qī nián , Yǎgè píng shēng de nián rì shì yī bǎi sì shí qī suì .