Genesis 41:14

Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they took him quickly out of prison; and when his hair had been cut and his dress changed, he came before Pharaoh.

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In The King James Version

Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.

In Context

13And it came about as he said: I was put back in my place, and the bread-maker was put to death by hanging.

15And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:7The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;

2 Kings 25:29And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.

Esther 5:1Now on the third day, Esther put on her queen's robes, and took her place in the inner room of the king's house, facing the king's house: and the king was seated on his high seat in the king's house, facing the doorway of the house.

Psalms 105:20The king sent men to take off his chains; even the ruler of the people, who let him go free.

Ecclesiastes 4:14Because out of a prison the young man comes to be king, though by birth he was only a poor man in the kingdom.

Isaiah 61:10I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:10-17

Joseph Brought before Pharaoh. ( b. c. 1715.) 9 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day: 10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker: 11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. 12 And there was there with us a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams;… Read the whole commentary →

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