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Genesis 40:15

For I have been stolen from the land of the Hebrews, and here, innocently, I was cast into the pit.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

In Context

14Only remember me, when it will be well with you, and do me this mercy, to suggest to Pharaoh to lead me out of this prison.

16The chief miller of grain, seeing that he had wisely unraveled the dream, said: “I also saw a dream: that I had three baskets of meal above my head,

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Cross References

Genesis 14:13And behold, one who had escaped reported it to Abram the Hebrew, who lived in the steep valley of Mamre the Amorite, who was the brother of Eshcol, and the brother of Aner. For these had formed an agreement with Abram.

Genesis 37:28And when the Midianite merchants were passing by, they drew him from the cistern, and they sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And these led him into Egypt.

Genesis 39:20And he delivered Joseph into prison, where the prisoners of the king were kept, and he was enclosed in that place.

Exodus 21:16Whoever will have stolen a man and sold him, having been convicted of the crime, shall be put to death.

1 Samuel 24:11Behold, this day your eyes have seen that the Lord has delivered you into my hand, in the cave. And I thought that I might kill you. But my eye has spared you. For I said: I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Christ of the Lord.

Psalms 59:4You have moved the earth, and you have disturbed it. Heal its breaches, for it has been moved.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 40:6-20

5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison. 6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad. 7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day? 8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.… Read the whole commentary →

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