Genesis 39:20

39:20 Joseph’s master took him and threw him into the prison, ¹  the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. So he was there in the prison. ² 

Genesis 40:3

40:3 so he imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard in the same facility where Joseph was confined.

Genesis 42:19

42:19 If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison ³  while the rest of you go ⁴  and take grain back for your hungry families. ⁵ 

Genesis 43:26

43:26 When Joseph came home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought inside, ⁶  and they bowed down to the ground before him.

Genesis 50:8

50:8 all Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.

[39:20]  ¹ tn Heb “the house of roundness,” suggesting that the prison might have been a fortress or citadel.

[39:20]  ² sn The story of Joseph is filled with cycles and repetition: He has two dreams (chap. 37), he interprets two dreams in prison (chap. 40) and the two dreams of Pharaoh (chap. 41), his brothers make two trips to see him (chaps. 42-43), and here, for the second time (see 37:24), he is imprisoned for no good reason, with only his coat being used as evidence. For further discussion see H. Jacobsen, “A Legal Note on Potiphar’s Wife,” HTR 69 (1976): 177.

[42:19]  ³ tn Heb “bound in the house of your prison.”

[42:19]  ⁴ tn The disjunctive clause is circumstantial-temporal.

[42:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “[for] the hunger of your households.”

[43:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “into the house.”