Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Genesis 47:26
That Pharaoh should have the fifth part; that the propriety of the land should be Pharaoh s; and that in token thereof the people should pay the fifth part of the products of it to Pharaoh.
That Pharaoh should have the fifth part; that the propriety of the land should be Pharaoh s; and that in token thereof the people should pay the fifth part of the products of it to Pharaoh.
Verse Genesis 47:26. _AND JOSEPH MADE IT A LAW_] That the people should hold their land from the king, and give him the _fifth_ part of the produce as a yearly tax. Beyond this it appears the king ha...
- Jacob in Goshen 11. רעמסס _ra‛m__e__sês_, Ra‘meses “son of the sun.” 31. מטה _mı̂ṭṭāh_, “bed.” מטה _maṭṭeh_ “staff.” Arrangements are now made for the settlement of Israel in Goshen. The adm...
CHAPTER 47 THE SETTLEMENT IN GOSHEN _ 1. Before Pharaoh (Genesis 47:1)_ 2. The settlement (Genesis 47:11) 3. Joseph's wise administration (Genesis 47:13) 4. Jacob's request ...
JOSEPH TAKES ADVANTAGE OF THE FAMINE TO SECURE FOR THE CROWN THE MONEY, THE CATTLE, AND THE LANDS OF THE EGYPTIANS. If this belongs to one of the main documents, J is the most probable. But it may be...
JOSEPH MADE IT A LAW— Chandler remarks, that Joseph, to his honour, was so far from enslaving the country, that, with the consent of king and people, he settled both the rights of the crown and of the...
3. _Joseph as Prime Minister of Egypt_ (Genesis 41:46 to Genesis 47:31) 46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh,...
_THEN JOSEPH SAID UNTO THE PEOPLE, BEHOLD, I HAVE BOUGHT YOU THIS DAY AND YOUR LAND FOR PHARAOH: LO, HERE IS SEED FOR YOU, AND YE SHALL SOW THE LAND._ Joseph said ... Behold ... The land being sold t...
JOSEPH PRESENTS HIS BRETHREN AND HIS FATHER TO PHARAOH. HE MAKES EXTENSIVE CHANGES IN THE LAND TENURE OF EGYPT 6. Rulers over my cattle] The superintendenee of the royal flocks and herds would be a p...
The law still stood at the time when people wrote Genesis. Joseph’s law remained after Joseph’s death. So there would still be a store of food in case there was a *famine. JOSEPH’S PROMISE TO JACOB...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 47 JACOB AND HIS SONS MEET *PHARAOH V1 So Joseph went to *Pharaoh. He said to him, ‘My father and my brothers have come from *Canaan. They have b...
וַ יָּ֣שֶׂם אֹתָ֣הּ יֹוסֵ֡ף לְ חֹק֩ עַד
JOSEPH'S ADMINISTRATION Genesis 41:37, Genesis 47:13 "He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance: To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom." Psalms 105:2...
EGYPTIANS SAVED IN FAMINE Genesis 47:13 The slender stores of the Egyptians were soon exhausted, and had it not been for Joseph the streets would have been filled with the dying and dead. His Egyptia...
To watch Jacob is to see a man who alternated between faith and fear. Standing before Pharaoh, his faith in God and his consciousness of his own position in the divine economy were clearly apparent. T...
JOSEPH'S STEWARDSHIP Joseph proved to be a good steward over the grain collected during the years of plenty. First, he sold grain for money until all the money in Egypt and Canaan was exhausted. Next...
And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; (h) except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh's. (h) Pharaoh, in prov...
_This day. When Moses wrote, and long after, as we learn from Josephus, Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, &c. (Calmet)_...
It is somewhat remarkable that Jacob lost Joseph at the age of seventeen: and now the LORD grants the same number of years for them to be together. The intermediate space of Joseph's life, the LORD ha...
Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 42 THROUGH 47. At the same time another scene presents itself. His brethren, who had rejected him, forced by famine, are brought, by the path of repentance an...
AND JOSEPH MADE IT A LAW OVER THE LAND OF EGYPT UNTO THIS DAY,.... With the consent of Pharaoh, his nobles, and all the people of the land, who readily came into it; and so it became, a fundamental la...
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. Ver. 26. _Except the lan...
1 Ioseph presenteth fiue of his brethren, 7 and his father, before Pharaoh. 11 Hee giueth them habitation and maintenance. 13 He getteth all the Egyptians money, 16 their cattell, 18 their lands...
And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day that Pharaoh should have the fifth part, twenty percent of the income going into the royal treasury as revenue; EXCEPT THE LAND OF THE PRI...
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE SEVERE FAMINE....
EIGHTH SECTION _Israel’s emigration with his family to Egypt. The settlement in the land of Goshen. Jacob and Pharaoh. Joseph’s political Economy. Jacob’s charge concerning his burial at Canaan._ GE...
In announcing to Pharaoh the coming of his father and his brothers, Joseph first introduces five of his brothers to him (vs.1-2). We are not told which ones, but they were likely those who could speak...
PRIESTS: Or, Princes...
13-26 Care being taken of Jacob and his family, which mercy was especially designed by Providence in Joseph's advancement, an account is given of the saving the kingdom of Egypt from ruin. There was...
On which we shall dwell more particularly. There is not in scripture a more perfect and beautiful type of Christ than Joseph. Whether we view Christ as the object of the Father's love, the object of t...
Genesis 47:26 Joseph H3130 made H7760 (H8799) law H2706 land H127 Egypt H4714 day H3117 Pharaoh H6547 one-fifth...
‘And 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 did not become Pharaoh's.' The writer summarises the pos...
CONTENTS: Jacob and descendants exalted in Goshen. CHARACTERS: Pharaoh, Joseph, brothers, Jacob. CONCLUSION: Notwithstanding former unkindnesses received, the believer who is prospered in this world...
Genesis 47:2. _Some of his brethren._ ומקצה _vemi-ketzeh extremitate,_ as in Montanus, five of the tallest and finest looking of his brethren; as is the import of the word, Judges 18:2, when describin...
_Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the Land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house_ THE MORALITY OF JO...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 47:21. He removed them to cities.] Heb.—_According to the cities._ “Thus he distributed the population of the land in and around the cities _according to the cities_ in which...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 47:11 AND JOSEPH PLACED HIS FATHER AND HIS BRETHREN (_i.e._ gave them a settlement, the import of which the next clause explains), AND GAVE THEM A POSSESSION (_i.e._ allowed them t...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the forty-seventh chapter of Genesis? Joseph has been sold by his brothers as a slave to the traders going to Egypt. In Egypt he is resold and purchased by a man nam...
made it a law. except. Genesis 47:22 Ezekiel 7:24 priests. or, princes. Genesis 47:30...