Gen 47:22, 26 | ESV | STEP | Only the land of the priests he did not buy , for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land .

Genesis 47:22

22 ^aOnly the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.

Genesis 47:26

26 So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; ^bthe land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh’s.