²⁴ But when the crop comes in, give a fifth^(A) of it to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you may keep as seed for the fields and as food for yourselves and your households and your children.”

²⁶ So Joseph established it as a law concerning land in Egypt—still in force today—that a fifth^(A) of the produce belongs to Pharaoh. It was only the land of the priests that did not become Pharaoh’s.^(B)

¹⁵ He will take a tenth^(A) of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants.