“The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 40 contains 23 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.