Genesis 47:24
At harvest time, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and food for yourselves and your households and children.”
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- Genesis 41:34 Let Pharaoh take action and appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.
- Psalm 41:1 Blessed is the one who cares for the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of trouble.
- Psalm 112:5 It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.