Genesis 47:24
However, when it's harvested, you have to give one-fifth of it to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you can keep as seed for the fields and as food for you, your households, and your children.”
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Genesis 14:20May the Most High God be praised, who handed your enemies over to you.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek one tenth of everything.
Genesis 28:22This stone pillar that I've set up will be the house of God, and I will give you one tenth of all you give me.”
Genesis 47:25“You've saved our lives,” they declared. “May you continue to treat us well, my lord, and we'll be Pharaoh's slaves.”
Leviticus 27:32When you count your herds and flocks, every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd's rod is holy to the Lord.
Deuteronomy 14:22Make sure you pay a tithe of every crop grown each year in your fields.
1 Samuel 8:15He will take a tenth of your grain harvest and the produce of your vineyards and allocate it to his chief officers and officials.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 47:14-27
Distressed Occasioned by the Famine. ( b. c. 1706.) 13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. 14 And 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. 15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said,… Read the whole commentary →