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22But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.

Genesis 40:22

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 20-23)

Here is, 1. The verifying of Joseph’s interpretation of the dreams, on the very day prefixed. The chief butler and baker were both advanced, one to his office, the other to the gallows, and both at the three days’ end. Note, Very great changes, both for the better and for the worse, often happen in a very little time, so sudden are the revolutions of the wheel of nature. The occasion of giving jud...

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