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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Genesis 40:3

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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Pharaoh put them in ward, &c.--Whatever was their crime, they were committed, until their case could be investigated, to the custody of the captain of the guard, that is, Potiphar, in an outer part of whose house the royal prison was situated.
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