Gen 39:20
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.
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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.
Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: {he...: Heb. his soul came into iron}
Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their {other} garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. {coats: or, mantles} {hats: or, turbans}
For this {is} thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. {thankworthy: or, thank}
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. {from prison...: or, away by distress and judgment: but, etc} {was he...: Heb. was the stroke upon him}
Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, {even} unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
And 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.
Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
And others had trial of {cruel} mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: {he...: Heb. his soul came into iron}
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph {was} bound.
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:
And 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.
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.
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
And {there was} there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.