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26 Joseph then issued a decree still in effect in the land of Egypt, that Pharaoh should receive one-fifth of all the crops grown on his land. Only the land belonging to the priests was not given to Pharaoh.

27 Meanwhile, the people of Israel settled in the region of Goshen in Egypt. There they acquired property, and they were fruitful, and their population grew rapidly. 28 Jacob lived for seventeen years after his arrival in Egypt, so he lived 147 years in all.

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26 So Joseph crafted a statute concerning Egypt that remains valid to this day that Pharaoh should own a fifth of the produce, excluding the land belonging to the priests, which remained outside of Pharaoh’s control.

27 Israel remained in Egypt’s Goshen territory, acquired land there, became prosperous, and his descendants[a] grew very numerous. 28 He lived for seventeen more years in Egypt, until he was 147 years old.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 47:27 The Heb. lacks his descendants