Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 47:23

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23-28. Joseph said, Behold, c.—The lands being sold to the government ( Genesis 47:19 Genesis 47:20 ), seed would be distributed for the first crop after the famine; and the people would occupy them as tenants-at-will on the payment of a produce rent, almost the same rule as obtains in Egypt in the present day. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-29" class="com-number"