Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.
Parallel translations
- KJV And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
- BSB So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
- ESV And Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.
- NKJV Then Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were confined. And he was there in the prison.
- NASB So Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined; and he was there in the prison.
- NLT So he took Joseph and threw him into the prison where the king’s prisoners were held, and there he remained.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Gen 40:15For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”
- Dan 3:21–22Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were cast into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.
- 2 Tim 2:9in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.
- 1 Pet 2:19For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
- Gen 40:1–3After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
- Gen 41:9–14Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.
- Ps 105:18–19They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
- Isa 53:8He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
- Ps 76:10Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
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