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“No Starving Artists Here”

Categories: OLD TESTAMENT
     Gen 47:22 and 26 state that “the only land he [Joseph] did not buy was the land belonging to the priests.”  Who were these priests?

Sincerely,
Real Estate Agent

Dear Real Estate Agent,

The priests referred to in Gen. 47:22 and 26 are the Egyptian priests.  Pharaoh had granted his priests food during the famine, so they had no need to sell their land to avoid starvation.