Genesis 47:26 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

²⁶ Yosef made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Par`oh should have the fifth. Only the land of the Kohanim alone didn't become Par`oh's.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt–to this day–that Pharaoh should have the fifth part [of the crops]; it was the priests' land only which did not become Pharaoh's.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests alone became not Pharaoh’s.

Common English Bible

²⁶ So Joseph made a law that still exists today: Pharaoh receives one-fifth from Egypt’s farmland. Only the priests’ farmland didn’t become Pharaoh’s.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ From that time, even to the present day, in the entire land of Egypt, the fifth part is turned over to the kings, and it has become like a law, except in the land of the priests, which was free from this condition.

Genesis 47:26 Cross References

Genesis 14:20

and blessed be El `Elyon, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.* Avram gave him a tenth of all.

Genesis 28:22

then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you.*

Genesis 41:34

Let Par`oh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce in the seven plenteous years.

Genesis 47:22

Only he didn't buy the land of the Kohanim, for the Kohanim had a portion from Par`oh, and ate their portion which Par`oh gave them. That is why they didn't sell their land.

Genesis 47:25

They said, *You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Par`oh's servants.*

Ezra 7:24

Also we inform you, that touching any of the Kohanim and Levites, the singers, porters, temple servants 1, or servants of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on them.

Ezekiel 7:24

Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.

Leviticus 27:30

*'All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the LORD's. It is holy to the LORD.

Numbers 18:21

To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Yisra'el for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting.

Deuteronomy 14:22

You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the field year by year.

Deuteronomy 26:12

When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.