22a15a No.827770
Joseph takes all of the Egyptian people's possessions during the 7 years of famine. Whats the meaning?
At face value it seems terrible. He amassed that grain through taxation anyway.
The best i concocted is seeing it as parable for salvation, give all your goods away, disdain the material for attaining salvation. NT style 'leave everything behind, take the cross and follow Me'.
Then later with Moses why is there this insistence in taking the Egyptian's people gold and trinkets. More than once God says He'll ease the Egyptian's hearts and they will give up their stuff so the Hebrews can simply go to their neighbors and ask.
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03422a No.827775
>Joseph takes all of the Egyptian people's possessions during the 7 years of famine.
He collected the grain, and it's reasonable to say he collected the surplus, leaving also enough grain to feed the people. In any case, the people did not posses the grain. During the New Kingdom in Egypt, most of the fields and infrastructure belonged to the Pharaoh, who would "lend" them to the populace. Think of it as a mixture of feudalism and hardcore communism, but with pyramids. Egypt was extremely centralized, with a strong bureaucracy. The grain belonged to the Pharaoh from the very beginning; it's fair to assume Joseph didn't impose extra taxes, just ordered to store it (and organized its storage) instead of using it outright.
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