Geneva Bible Notes: Genesis 40

Genesis 40:2 (/) Or, eunuches. The worde signifieth them that were in high estate, or them that were gelded.

Genesis 40:3 (a) God worked many wonderful meanes to deliuer his.

Genesis 40:5 (b) That is, euerie dreame had his interpretation, as the thing afterward declared.

Genesis 40:7 (/) Ebr. why are your faces euil?

Genesis 40:8 (!) The interpretation of dreames is of God.

Genesis 40:8 (c) Can not God raise vp suche as shal interpret suche things?

Genesis 40:12 (!) Joseph expoundeth the dreames of the two prisoners.

Genesis 40:12 (d) He was assured by the Spirit of God that his interpretation was true.

Genesis 40:13 (/) Ebr. place.

Genesis 40:14 (e) He refused not the meanes to be deliuered, which he thoght God had appointed.

Genesis 40:15 (/) Or, in the pit.

Genesis 40:16 (f) That is, made of white twigges, or, as some read, baskets ful of holes.

Genesis 40:18 (g) He sheweth that the ministers of God oght not to conceile that, which God reueileth vnto them.

Genesis 40:20 (h) Which was an occasion to appoint his officers and to examine them that were in prison.

Genesis 40:23 (!) The ingratitude of the butler.