Genesis - 41:10



10 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 41:10.

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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:
Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker:
The king being angry with his servants, commanded me and the chief baker to be cast into the prison of the captain of the soldiers:
Pharaoh was wroth with his bondmen, and put me in custody into the captain of the life-guard's house, me and the chief of the bakers.
Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in custody in the captain of the guard's house, both me, and the chief baker:
Pharaoh hath been wroth against his servants, and giveth me into charge in the house of the chief of the executioners, me and the chief of the bakers;
Pharaoh had been angry with his servants, and had put me in prison in the house of the captain of the army, together with the chief bread-maker;
The king, being angry with his servants, ordered me and the chief miller of grain to be forced into the prison of the leader of the military.
Pharao iratus est contra servos suos, et posuit me in custodiam domus principis satellitum, me et principem pistorum.

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Historical Commentaries

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Pharaoh was wroth with his servants,.... Not with all of them, but with the butler and the baker. Aben Ezra observes here, that Pharaoh was not the proper name of this king, but a title of office, and signifies the king; for it cannot be thought that the butler would use such freedom in his presence as to call him by his name: the true name of this prince, according to the eastern writers (f), was Rian ben Walid; others take him to be Aphophis, the third of the Hycsi, or pastor kings: but, according to Bishop Usher (g), his name was Mephramuthosis:
and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house: in consequence of his wrath and displeasure, for crimes really or supposed to be committed by him; and the captain of the guard's house was a prison, or at least there was a prison in it for such sort of offenders; and this was Potiphar's, Joseph's master's, house:
both me and the chief baker; which explains who the officers were Pharaoh was wroth with, and who were for their offences committed to prison.
(f) Juchasin, fol. 135. 2. (g) Annales Ver. Test. p. 14.

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