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the money of the kingdom was by this means
brought into the exchequer.
2. When the money failed, they parted with all
their cattle, those for labour, as the horses and
asses, and those for food, as the flocks and the
herds, Ge 47:17. By this it should seem that we
may better live upon bread without flesh than
upon flesh without bread. We may suppose
they parted the more easily with their cattle
because they had little or no grass for them;
and now Pharaoh saw in reality what he had
before seen in vision, nothing but lean kine.
3. When they had sold their stocks off their
land, it was easy to persuade themselves
(rather than starve) to sell their land too; for
what good would that do them, when they had
neither corn to sow it nor cattle to eat of it?
They therefore sold that next, for a further
supply of corn.
4. When their land was sold, so that they had
nothing to live on, they must of course sell
themselves, that they might live purely upon
their labour, and hold their lands by the base
tenure of villanage, at the courtesy of the
crown.