23. Joseph told the people: “Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh, here is your seed for sowing the land.
24. But when the harvest is in, you must give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, while you keep four-fifths as seed for your fields and as food for yourselves and your households and as food for your children.”
25. “You have saved our lives!” they answered. “We have found favor with my lord; now we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”
26. Thus Joseph made it a statute for the land of Egypt, which is still in force, that a fifth of its produce should go to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not pass over to Pharaoh.
27. Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. There they acquired holdings, were fertile, and multiplied greatly.