Génesis 47:20

Listen to Génesis 47:20
20 Entonces compr贸 Jos茅 toda la tierra de Egipto para Fara贸n; pues los Egipcios vendieron cada uno sus tierras, porque se agrav贸 el hambre sobre ellos: y la tierra vino 谩 ser de Fara贸n.

Génesis 47:20 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 47:20

And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh
Not for himself, nor did he entail it on his posterity, but for Pharaoh, who became sole proprietor of it:

for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine
prevailed over them;
everyone that had a field sold it to buy bread for his family, so great was the famine; no mention is made of their houses, either because these went with their lands, or they were so mean that they were of little account, and would scarce bear any price; for as Diodorus Siculus F8 reports of the Egyptians, they were less careful of the structure of their houses, and exceeded all bounds in the magnificence of their sepulchres:

so the land became Pharaoh's;
not only with respect to dominion and government, so it was before, but with respect to property; before, every man's field, and garden, and vineyard were his own, and he was in possession thereof for his own use, but now being sold, were Pharaoh's; and they held them of him, and paid a rent for them in a manner hereafter directed by a law.


FOOTNOTES:

F8 Bibliothec. l. 1. p. 47.
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Génesis 47:20 In-Context

18 Y acabado aquel a帽o, vinieron 谩 茅l el segundo a帽o, y le dijeron: No encubriremos 谩 nuestro se帽or que el dinero ciertamente se ha acabado; tambi茅n el ganado es ya de nuestro se帽or; nada ha quedado delante de nuestro se帽or sino nuestros cuerpos y nuestra tierra.
19 驴Por qu茅 moriremos delante de tus ojos, as铆 nosotros como nuestra tierra? C贸mpranos 谩 nosotros y 谩 nuestra tierra por pan, y seremos nosotros y nuestra tierra siervos de Fara贸n: y danos simiente para que vivamos y no muramos, y no sea asolada la tierra.
20 Entonces compr贸 Jos茅 toda la tierra de Egipto para Fara贸n; pues los Egipcios vendieron cada uno sus tierras, porque se agrav贸 el hambre sobre ellos: y la tierra vino 谩 ser de Fara贸n.
21 Y al pueblo h铆zolo pasar 谩 las ciudades desde el un cabo del t茅rmino de Egipto hasta el otro cabo.
22 Solamente la tierra de los sacerdotes no compr贸, por cuanto los sacerdotes ten铆an raci贸n de Fara贸n, y ellos com铆an su raci贸n que Fara贸n les daba: por eso no vendieron su tierra.
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