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Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Genesis 40

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See Genesis 40:2 in… The King James Bible Geneva Bible (1599)
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2 / Or, eunuches. The worde signifieth them that were in high estate, or them that were gelded.

See Genesis 40:3 in… The King James Bible Geneva Bible (1599)
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3 a God worked many wonderful meanes to deliuer his.

See Genesis 40:5 in… The King James Bible Geneva Bible (1599)
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5 b That is, euerie dreame had his interpretation, as the thing afterward declared.

See Genesis 40:7 in… The King James Bible Geneva Bible (1599)
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7 / Ebr. why are your faces euil?

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8 ! The interpretation of dreames is of God.

8 c Can not God raise vp suche as shal interpret suche things?

See Genesis 40:12 in… The King James Bible Geneva Bible (1599)
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12 ! Joseph expoundeth the dreames of the two prisoners.

12 d He was assured by the Spirit of God that his interpretation was true.

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13 / Ebr. place.

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14 e He refused not the meanes to be deliuered, which he thoght God had appointed.

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15 / Or, in the pit.

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16 f That is, made of white twigges, or, as some read, baskets ful of holes.

See Genesis 40:18 in… The King James Bible Geneva Bible (1599)
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18 g He sheweth that the ministers of God oght not to conceile that, which God reueileth vnto them.

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20 h Which was an occasion to appoint his officers and to examine them that were in prison.

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23 ! The ingratitude of the butler.