Genesis 40:7

Webster's Bible (1833)

He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"

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  • Neh 2:2 : 2 The king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid.
  • Luke 24:17 : 17 He said to them, "What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?"
  • Judg 18:24 : 24 He said, you have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say you to me, What ails you?
  • 1 Sam 1:8 : 8 Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why don't you eat? and why is your heart grieved? am I not better to you than ten sons?
  • 2 Sam 13:4 : 4 He said to him, Why, son of the king, are you thus lean from day to day? Won't you tell me? Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.

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  • Gen 40:1-6
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    1 It happened after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

    2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

    3 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

    4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.

    5 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.

    6 Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.

  • 8 They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."

  • 15 Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"

  • Gen 41:8-11
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    8 It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men of it. Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

    9 Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today.

    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.

    11 We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

  • Gen 41:13-15
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    13 It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and he hanged him."

    14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.

    15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."

  • 6 He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

  • 7 They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

  • 17 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:

  • Gen 45:2-3
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    2 He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.

    3 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.

  • 1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"

  • 4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

  • Gen 45:16-17
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    16 The report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

    17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

  • 17 He put them all together into custody three days.

  • 27 He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"

  • 15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?

  • 36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.

  • 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'

  • 17 "So you shall tell Joseph, 'Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

  • 15 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."

  • 2 Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

  • Gen 41:37-39
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    37 The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

    38 Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"

    39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.

  • 10 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

  • 7 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."

  • 3 Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers."

  • 19 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.