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Genesis 40:3

“And he put them in ward in the house of the captaine of the guard, into the prison, the place where Ioseph was bound.”

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And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph [was] bound.
- King James Version

So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jail, the {same} place where Joseph was imprisoned.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
- American Standard Version (1901)

And he put them in prison under the care of the captain of the army, in the same prison where Joseph himself was shut up.
- Basic English Bible

and he put them in custody into the house of the captain of the life-guard, into the tower-house, into the place where Joseph was imprisoned.
- Darby Bible

And he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
- Webster's Bible

He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
- World English Bible

and giveth them in charge in the house of the chief of the executioners, unto the round-house, the place where Joseph [is] a prisoner,
- Youngs Literal Bible

And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

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Discussion for Genesis 40

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  • 8 years Ago
    Dewey J
    Daniel, the Scripture in chapter 40 says nothing about Joseph having another encounter with Pharaoh before he was brought out of prison to interpt this dream. If it doesn 't speak of anything in Scripture I will not proclaim it as the gospel. God bless us all and also in the understanding of his Word. Glory be to God in the highest through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen!
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  • 8 years Ago
    Dewey J
    Stephen, it 's impossible to restore a fallen angel because they knew exactly what they were doing when they rebelled against God in Heaven. 2 Peter 2:4 says, "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them in chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgement. This is the white Throne judgment and after this come the lake of fire for the fallen angels and all unrepentant human sinner which is the second death. Jesus preached to the people that perished in Noah 's day 1 Peter 3:18, 19, 20 says, "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened-or- made alive by the Spirit-or- Holy Ghost v19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison v20 Which sometimes were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. That 's eight souls were saved from the water by Noah 's ark. God bless us all and also in the understanding of his Word. Praise God through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen!
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  • 9 years Ago
    Stephen for verse 1
    Does this also represent Jesus s judgement over the earth or even deeper when, after his crucifixion he spent three days in hell sheol preaching to the fallen angels: 1 Peter 3:18-20. Will even some of these go back to serving God?
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  • 9 years Ago
    Joseph
    Indeed God controls time and seasons and He is never late. He will never share HIS glory with man over anyone He has anointed for a purpose. The Bible is true that 'A MAN CANNOT RECEIVE ANYTHING EXCEPT IT BE GIVEN HIM FROM HEAVEN ' John 3 27 If the Chief Butler had used his 'connection ' with Pharaoh to bring Joseph out that time, God would not have been fully glorified and Joseph would not have become the Prime Minister of Egypt as he would probably have escaped back to his father Jacob . God is infinitely wise! Another lesson i learnt from this Chapter is that regardless of whatever trials and challenges we might be facing, we should seek to do good as Joseph did by asking after the welfare of the Chief Butler and Chief Baker. Indeed our gifts will eventually speak for us! May God help us to use all He has deposited in us for His Glory and Honour alone in Jesus Name
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  • 10 years Ago
    Daniel
    Pharaoh upon hearing the interpretation was never the less skeptical as to the accuracy of the prediction and demanded that Joseph give him a sign. The following was not short of a tragedy as Joseph prophesized that Pharaoh's wife, pregnant and about to give birth would do so in a few days' time and on the day she would give birth Pharaoh's son, now a few years old, would die. Joseph was return to the dungeon and only when the foretelling came true, was he taken out and installed as regent of all the Egyptian empire
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  • 10 years Ago
    Daniel
    It should be understood that at the time of Joseph's incarceration, the pharaoh of this time was not an Egyptian but from a nomadic tribe, the Hyksos (a people from West Asia who took over the eastern Nile Delta, ending the Thirteenth dynasty of Egypt and initiating the Second Intermediate Period. "Hyksos" derives from the Egyptian expression hekau en khaswet [HkAw n xAswt] ("rulers of foreign lands"). When Abraham lost his wife Sarah he took a third wife by the name of K'turah and it is said that the rulers of that time were descendants of the offspring of K'turah, thus easing the meeting between Joseph and Pharaoh.

    When Pharaoh asked Joseph for the answer to his strange dreams Pharaoh remembered the dreams but even though the Lord had given him the answer it escaped him, therefore when Joseph explained it to him the whole story clicked in. Many times we remember a place or person but only when someone else runs off a list of names do we suddenly stop them at the name we wanted and that is what happened here.
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