“(Chapter 40, Verse 1) After these words, the chief of the king of Egypt's wine cellar sinned. Where we have placed 'chief of the wine cellar' in Hebrew it is written 'Masec', that word which we have recently read in the name of Abraham's servant, whom we can call the cupbearer according to the custom of the common peo…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Hebrew Questions on Genesis
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1And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.
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— Genesis 40:1 —
2And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
3And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.