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Genesis 47:25-27
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Genesis 47:25-27
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
25 They said, “You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be slaves to Pharaoh.”(A) 26 So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. The land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh’s.(B)
The Last Days of Jacob
27 Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen, and they gained possessions in it and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly.(C)
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