Genesis 47:24
and it hath come to pass in the increases, that ye have given a fifth to Pharaoh, and four of the parts are for yourselves, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for those who [are] in your houses, and for food for your infants.'
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Genesis 14:20and blessed [is] God Most High, who hath delivered thine adversaries into thy hand;' and he giveth to him a tenth of all.
Genesis 28:22then this stone which I have made a standing pillar is a house of God, and all that Thou dost give to me — tithing I tithe to Thee.'
Genesis 47:25And they say, 'Thou hast revived us; we find grace in the eyes of my lord, and have been servants to Pharaoh;'
Leviticus 27:32'And all the tithe of the herd and of the flock — all that passeth by under the rod — the tenth is holy to Jehovah;
Deuteronomy 14:22'Thou dost certainly tithe all the increase of thy seed which the field is bringing forth year by year;
1 Samuel 8:15And your seed and your vineyards he doth tithe, and hath given to his eunuchs, and to his servants.
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 →