Holy Scripture

Genesis 40:4

A church father on this verse
“But what shall I say about these eunuchs? who should be an example to the other eunuchs, because their status is fragile and delicate, and all their hope lies in the king's will, for whom a slight offense would be a great danger: but their secondary matters are lowly service. One boasted that he was in charge of the w…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — On Joseph the Patriarch

Source: Septuagint

Original

4And the chief keeper of the prison committed them to Joseph, and he stood by them; and they were some days in the prison.

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2And Pharaoh was wroth with his two eunuchs, with his chief cupbearer, and with his chief baker.

3And he put them in ward, into the prison, into the place whereinto Joseph had been led.

— Genesis 40:4 —

5And they both had a dream in one night; and the vision of the dream of the chief cupbearer and chief baker, who belonged to the king of Egypt, who were in the prison, was this.

6Joseph went in to them in the morning, and saw them, and they had been troubled.

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