Genesis 47:22

Contemporary English Version 1995

except the priests. The king gave the priests a regular food allowance, so they did not have to sell their land.

Cross References

Ezra 7:24

We want you to know that no priests, Levites, musicians, guards, temple servants, or any other temple workers will have to pay any kind of taxes.

1 Timothy 5:17

Church leaders who do their job well deserve to be paid twice as much, especially if they work hard at preaching and teaching.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

We also gave you this rule: If you don't work, you don't eat.

Galatians 6:6

Share every good thing you have with anyone who teaches you what God has said.

1 Corinthians 9:13

Don't you know that people who work in the temple make their living from what is brought to the temple? Don't you know that a person who serves at the altar is given part of what is offered?

Matthew 10:10

And don't carry a traveling bag or an extra shirt or sandals or a walking stick. Workers deserve their food.

Nehemiah 13:10

I also found out that the temple singers and several other Levites had returned to work on their farms, because they had not been given their share of the harvest.

2 Samuel 8:18

Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was the commander of David's bodyguard. David's sons were priests.

Genesis 41:50

Joseph and his wife had two sons before the famine began.

Genesis 41:45

He gave Joseph the Egyptian name Zaphenath Paneah. And he let him marry Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, a priest in the city of Heliopolis. Joseph traveled all over Egypt.

Genesis 14:18

King Melchizedek of Salem was a priest of God Most High. He brought out some bread and wine

Genesis 47:21

and made everyone the king's slaves,

Genesis 47:23

Then Joseph said to the people, “You and your land now belong to the king. I'm giving you seed to plant,

Genesis 47:26

Then Joseph made a law that one fifth of the harvest would always belong to the king. Only the priests did not lose their land.