Genesis 47:26
Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.

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Genesis 47:26
Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.

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Genesis 47:22
Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh 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 Pharaoh’s servants.”

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Genesis 41:34
Let Pharaoh 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.

1 Samuel 8:15
He will take one tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers and to his servants.

2 Kings 23:35
Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.

Nehemiah 5:4
There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

Matthew 17:24
When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins came to Peter, and said, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the didrachma?”


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