And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
This day. When Moses wrote, and long after, as we learn from Josephus, St. Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus (Calmet)