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18 And that year consummates: and they come to him the second year and say to him, We conceal not from my adoni, how that our silver is consumed; my adoni also has our chattel of animals; naught survives at the face of my adoni except our bodies and our soil:
19 Why die we in front of your eyes - both we and our soil? Chattelize us and our soil for bread and we and our soil become servants to Paroh: and give us seed, that we live and not die, that the soil not become desolate.
20 And Yoseph chattels all the soil of Misrayim for Paroh; for every Misrayim man sells his field, because the famine prevails over them: so the land becomes to Paroh:
21 and as for the people, he passes them to cities from the end of the borders of Misrayim even to the end thereof.
22 Only he chattels not the soil of the priests; for the priests have a statute from Paroh and they consume the statute Paroh gave them: so they sold not their soil.
23 Then Yoseph says to the people, Behold, this day, I chattel you and your soil for Paroh: behold, seed for you; seed the soil:
24 and so be it, of the produce, give a fifth to Paroh; and four become your own for seed of the field and for your food and for them of your households and for food for your toddlers.
25 And they say, You preserved our lives! We find charism in the eyes of my adoni and we become the servants of Paroh.
26 And Yoseph set a statute over the land of Misrayim to this day, that Paroh have the fifth, except that the soil of the priests becomes not to Paroh.