Verse 22
22. Land of the priests bought he not Pharaoh’s reverence for the ministers of religion would not allow an alienation of their land from them .
Their portion which Pharaoh gave them During the years of famine he ordered them to be supplied from the public treasury, without money and without price . This is represented as Pharaoh’s act rather than Joseph’s . The latter, of course, would not interfere . He had married the daughter of one of the priests . But the sacred writer clearly intimates that the reverence shown to the Egyptian priesthood by this measure was for Pharaoh’s sake, not for his own .
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