26 Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, valid to this day, that Pharaoh was to have the fifth; (A)only the land of the priests [a]did not become Pharaoh’s.

27 Now Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in [b]Goshen, and they (B)acquired property in it and (C)were fruitful and became very numerous. 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt for (D)seventeen years; so the [c]length of Jacob’s life was 147 years.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 47:26 Lit alone did
  2. Genesis 47:27 Lit the land of Goshen
  3. Genesis 47:28 Lit days of Jacob, the years of his life

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