Genesis 47:20

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Genesis 47:20 (WEB)
So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.

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Ambrose of Milan, On the Duties of the Clergy II.16Book II
“First of all, then, he gathered up their money, then their implements, last of all he acquired for the king all their rights to the ground.” — editor's note: Gen. xlvii. 14–20.
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