Genesis 41:34
Let Pharaoh take action and appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.
Note See LXX; MT a fifth from the land
Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
Note officers: or, overseers
Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years.
Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- officers
- or, overseers.
- Numbers 31:14; 2 Kings 11:11, 12; 2 Chronicles 34:12; Nehemiah 11:9
- and take
- Job 5:20; Psalm 33:19; Proverbs 6:6–8; Proverbs 22:3; Proverbs 27:12; Luke 16:5